RCB Vs SRH match summary:- Playing for his first match, Afghanistan spinner Mohammad Nabi rips apart RCB’s batting line up, as the right-handed spinner sent the opening trio of Parthiv Patel, Shimron Hetmyer, and Ab De Villiers to the pavilion in the power play overs while chasing a mammoth 231-run total on Sunday.
Perhaps, RCB prepared for Rashid Khan, however, his ally Mohammad Nabi came out of syllabus as he inflicted RCB’s first three wickets inside four overs. The men in Red looked clueless as the 34-year old spinner restricted Virat Kohli and Co. to just 30 runs in the first six overs, losing three wickets in pursuit of a massive 231-run total.
Royal Challengers Bangalore was left with Virat Kohli as the only hope for the side to pull off an improbable chase. Bhuvneshwar Kumar brought Sandeep Sharma in the seventh over and much to the delight of SRH fans, the right-handed seamer accounted for the most important wicket of Virat Kohli, and thereby, dented RCB’s run-chase.
Moeen Ali ran-himself out in the same over for the second time in three matches in the tournament. Nabi took his fourth wicket in the match in the form of Shivam Dube, as RCB were tottering at 35-6 in 8 overs.
Colin de Grandhomme and debutant Prayas Barman stayed in the middle for some time, stitching a 51-run partnership, before the RCB spinner lost his wicket on 19 off Sandeep Sharma.
Yuzvendra Chahal became the last victim as RCB, eventually folded out for just 113 runs in 19.5 overs. RCB have now lost three in three, while Sunrises, on the other hand, have registered their second win of the tournament, winning their match against RCB by 118 runs.
Earlier, David Warner and Jonny Bairstow hogged all the limelight as the duo sent RCB bowlers to a leather hunt, smashing them across the ground with some massive sixes and mesmerizing fours.
England batsman Jonny Bairstow notched up his first century in only his third match of his IPL career. An innings that will always be remembered, the English wicket-keeper batsman set the stadium alight with seven huge sixes and 12 fours. He scored 114 runs in 56 deliveries before getting caught at point off Chahal in the 17th over of the innings.
On the other hand, David Warner continued his good-run, smashing his first century of this year’s IPL. Warner played an equally good inning, smacking as many as nine boundaries, as he scored unbeaten 100 off 55 deliveries.
The duo stitched together a brilliant 185-run partnership in 16.3 overs as SRH posted 231 runs in the first innings against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Sunday.
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