RCB vs GT Highlights : RCB Beat Gujarat by 4 wickets with a big win at home. After defeating Gujarat, RCB jumped straight from 10th to seventh and kept their hopes of making the playoffs alive. While RCB has shocked Mumbai by winning this match, the team of Mumbai Indians has now reached the last position in the points table. RCB's all-round performance under the leadership of Faf du Plessis has led the team to one of its stylish performances this season.
Virat Kohli and Faf's batting gave the team a tremendous start. The duo put on the biggest stand of 92 runs for RCB in the Powerplay. After winning the toss, they decided to bowl first and this decision went in the team's direction. The RCB bowlers didn't allow the Gujarat batsmen to last long with a brilliant bowling display. Chasing the target of 148 runs, Virat and Faf du Plessis put on the loftiest partnership of 92 runs. Faf scored the alternate fastest half-century for RCB. Faf scored 64 runs off 23 balls with the help of 3 sixes and 10 fours.
Virat scored 42 runs in 27 balls with the help of 4 sixes and 2 fours. After this, RCB suffered 4 successive setbacks as Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green lost quick wickets. Dinesh Karthik once again became the savior for RCB in this match. Dinesh Karthik and Swapnil Singh stayed on the field and led the team to victory.
Karthik scored 21 runs off 12 balls with 3 fours, while Swapnil scored 15 runs off 9 balls with 1 six and 2 fours. Joshua Little took the maximum 4 wickets from Gujarat and made RCB sweat. Noor Ahmed took two wickets. before, Gujarat scored 147 all out while fur first. Gujarat batsmen knelt before RCB's bowling. No batsman was allowed to stay on the field for long. Not a single Gujarat batsman has reached the 40- run mark. With this, Gujarat scored the smallest total in the Powerplay in IPL 2024 with 23 for 3.
GT's first three batsmen Saha, Gill and Sai were dismissed for 1,2 and 6 runs independently. Shah Rukh Khan(37yrs) and David Miller(30yrs) who came after that saved the team's innings, but couldn't reach a big score. also Rahul Tewatia scored 35 runs off 21 balls with 1 six and 5 fours. Rashid Khan(18), Vijay Shankar(10) were dismissed incontinently. While in the last over, Manav Sutar, Mohit Sharma(run out) and Noor Ahmed were dismissed in the first three balls of the last over.
Still, Vijay Kumar Vaishakh missed the hat- trick as Mohit Sharma was run out. Siraj, Yash Dayal and Vijayakumar Vaishakh took 2 wickets each for RCB. Karn Sharma managed to get one wicket.
