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Devdutt Padikkal and Joshua Philippe ar debutants for RCB in IPL whereas Priyam Garg(U-19 Captain), Natarajan, Mitchell Marsh making their debut for SRH.


What a beautiful game it is. RCB lacking in many areas over the years whether in opening, death bowling, fielding. Few Changes, Upcoming youngsters, brilliant bowling display helped RCB to win the game by 10 runs. What a game many injuries, bowling display by RCB, batting efforts by SRH. Read this entire article.


RCB Bowlers Today

Navdeep Saini: 4-0-25-2

Yuzvendra Chahal: 4-0-18-3

Shivam Dubey: 3-0-15-2


Match Story:

Bhuvaneswar Kumar starts the innings in his style by bowling Beautiful Inswingers.


Stat: Devdutt has an average of 64.44 and SR of 175.75 in T20 Format.


Devdutt stayed calm in his first over and didn't take much time to unleash his potential. He smashed 2 fours in Sandeep Sharma over and 3 fours in Natarajan over. On the other side, Finchy is clever and rotating the strike. During 5th over, there was an injury for Mitchell Marsh and he went off the field. Vijay Shankar bowled the remaining two balls and he bowled 2 No-Balls, RCB taking advantage and hit six of the first No-Ball.

RCB ended up scoring 53 in the powerplay.


Looking at the shots of Devdutt Padikkal, he reminds me of the younger version of YUVRAJ SINGH. He played over slog, Straight Lofted shot, Lofted over covers, Pull through mid-wicket. 

Soon after the powerplay, Finchy hits 4,6 off Rashid's over. RCB were 75-0 after overs.


Stat: Devdutt Padikkal scored 50 off Debut in 35 balls. He is one player who scored 50 FC, List-A, T20, and IPL debut matches. What a player!


Soon after scoring 50, Devdutt and Finch were dismissed by V Shankar and A Sharma. There was a great understanding between the openers and they put 90 opening run stand.


Stat: This was RCB 59th Opening Pair and RCB is the only team in IPL who tried 50+ opening pairs.


SRH managed to defend RCB as it hasn't hit a boundary for the next three overs till 15.2. Virat Kohli was trapped by a slow ball off Natarajan Bowling. RCB were 123-3 after Kohli's wicket. AB de Villers starts hitting the ball, hits consecutive sixes off Sandeep and he made his first 50 of the 2020 season. 


Stat: With the six, ABD completes his 200 sixes for Royal Challengers Banglore.


RCB scored 163-5 in 20 overs and its difficult to chase 164 in these conditions


Both Bairstow(114) and Warner(100*) made centuries against RCB in IPL 2019. They were the best opening pair in 2019. But unlucky Warner goes soon as ball nicks Umesh Yadav hand and hits the Stumps before Warner bat. 


Meanwhile, Bairstow and Manish Pandey continues and made 71 runs stand in 62 balls. Navdeep Saini was impressive with pace and length, the slowest ball bowled in his first over is 140Kmph. Yuzi Chahal turning the ball and taken the wicket of Manish Pandey in the 12th over.


Excellent opportunity for the youngsters Priyam Garg and Abhishek Sharma as Mitch Marsh injured during 1st innings of the match. During 16th over and Chahal's last over, who came and changed the entire match as he takes inform Bairstow and Shankar in successive deliveries. Soon Dubey also has taken the wicket of Priyam Garg.


The equation was 29 runs from 3 overs.


Here comes Saini, Impressive pace, and more importantly the full control of length bowling at 140+.  Game-changing over. Marsh wasn't able to run and caught by Virat at long-on. 


Finally, SRH all out for 153 and RCB won the game by 10 runs.


Please mention the mistakes and thanks for reading


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