Virat Kohli introduced out his elegant kind on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru for Royal Challengers Bengaluru in opposition to Punjab Kings on Monday. The previous RCB and Indian cricket group skipper struck a 31-ball half century to spice up RCB’s chase in opposition to Punjab Kings within the groups’ second match of the IPL 2024. Nevertheless, he was additionally shocked by an enormous safety breach as a fan tricked all to enter the bottom. The individual additionally managed to the touch Kohli’s ft earlier than he was nabbed.
A fan breached the safety to satisfy Virat Kohli on the Chinnaswamy Stadium#RCBvsPBKS #IPL2024 #ViratKohli𓃵 pic.twitter.com/cwmbioGp8d
— Vathan Ballal (@VathanBallal) March 25, 2024
Earlier, the pragmatism of captain Shikhar Dhawan was the bedrock on which Punjab Kings constructed their 176 for six as Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers discovered their bearings on a Chinnaswamy Stadium pitch that supplied them springboard bounce on Monday.
Dhawan (45, 37b), Jitesh Sharma (27, 20b) and Prabhsimran Singh (25, 17b) have been the primary contributors for the Kings after Royal Challengers opted to bowl first on a observe that had a smattering of inexperienced.
For RCB, Mohammed Siraj and Glenn Maxwell took wickets apiece.
The Kings made a shaky starting as Jonny Bairstow received out early as his outings on these shores, which is stretched again to final yr’s World Cup, has now change into extra barren than the Indian summer time.
Within the newest occasion, the Englishman’s poorly-executed close-to-the-body pull of pacer Siraj was taken by Virat Kohli contained in the covers.
However from 17 for one, the guests discovered some runs by Dhawan and Prabhsimran who tackled the pitch and the RCB bowlers with aplomb, milking 55 runs off 38 balls.
Dhawan was not exactly easy throughout his keep however confirmed sufficient pluck to money in on the unfastened deliveries, akin to a size ball on the off-stump from left-arm spinner Mayank Dagar which he lofted over long-on for a six.
In actual fact, the RCB bowlers, particularly spectacular left-arm seamer Yash Dayal (1/23), did nicely to tie him down with deliveries that darted in to him from simply wanting good size.
Prabhsimran additionally often vented his aggressive instincts, and essentially the most telling piece was his flicked six off Cameron Inexperienced that sailed 90 meters over mid-wicket for a most.
However simply because the alliance was blossoming, Prabhsimran tried to drag Maxwell however a feeble prime edge was simply grabbed by stumper Anuj Rawat.
Rawat quickly doubled the variety of his catches when he latched on to a wild heave outdoors the off-stump by Liam Livingstone off Alzarri Joseph within the final ball of the twelfth over.
However the Punjab facet suffered a heavier blow as Dhawan received within the very subsequent ball.
The left-hander’s try and hoist Maxwell out of the bottom ended within the palms of Kohli at long-on because the Kings slipped to 98 for 4 in 12.1 overs.
It wasn’t a really perfect state of affairs for Kings as they wanted a number of extra runs on the board to offer a significant problem to the house facet.
They discovered these from Jitesh, who hammered Dagar for 2 sixes in a row, and Sam Curran, who added 52 runs for the fifth wicket off 34 balls to push the PBKS previous the 150-run mark, that was swelled by a few beefy hits by Shashank Singh, who carted Joseph for 20 runs within the closing over.
However they might have preferred a heavier trying scoreboard in pursuance of their second successive victory.
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