Thanks to the half-century innings of Krunal Pandya and Virat Kohli, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Delhi Capitals by six wickets and registered their seventh win. At the same time, this is their sixth consecutive win away from home. In this match, Delhi Capitals, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored 162 runs for the loss of eight wickets in 20 overs. In reply, RCB scored 164 runs for the loss of four wickets in 18.3 overs and won the match. For Delhi, Akshar Patel took two wickets and Dushmantha Chameera took one wicket.

RCB reached the top

With this win, RCB reached the top of the points table with 14 points and a net run rate of 0.521. Bangalore, led by Rajat Patidar, has won seven out of 10 matches. At the same time, Delhi, which won six out of nine games and lost three, is in fourth place in the table with 12 points and a net run rate of 0.482. Gujarat and Mumbai Indians are in the second and third positions respectively. Both have 12 points each in their account.

The biggest partnership of the season for the fourth wicket between Krunal-Kohli
RCB had a bad start in this match while chasing the target. The team lost three wickets at a score of 26. Axar Patel took the wickets of Jacob Bethel (12) and Devdutt Padikkal (0). At the same time, Karun Nair gave the third blow to RCB by running out captain Rajat Patidar. After this, Virat Kohli and Krunal Pandya took charge. There was a partnership of 119 runs between the two for the fourth wicket, which is the biggest partnership played by any pair of RCB and is also the biggest partnership of this season for the fourth wicket. Both played an important role in giving RCB a spectacular victory by tightening the screws on Delhi bowlers.

Krunal hit fifty after nine years, and Kohli was also not far behind.
During this, Krunal Pandya completed the second half-century of his career in 38 balls. Earlier, he had hit a fifty in 2016. He remained unbeaten after scoring 73 runs in 47 balls. During this, five fours and four skyscraper sixes came out of his bat. At the same time, King Kohli also managed to complete the sixth half-century of the current season. He hit the third fifty in this IPL in 45 balls. He managed to play an important innings of 51 runs with the help of four fours. Tim David remained unbeaten after scoring 19 runs in five balls.

Delhi's innings

Delhi had a good start in this match. Abhishek Porel and Faf du Plessis shared a 33-run partnership for the first wicket. Hazelwood made Porel his victim. He was dismissed after scoring 28 runs in 11 balls with the help of two fours and two sixes. After this, Yash Dayal sent Karun Nair, who came at number three, back to the pavilion. He could score only four runs. Apart from him, KL Rahul scored 41 runs with the help of three fours while Stubbs scored 34 runs batting at a strike rate of 188.88. Captain Akshar Patel scored 15, Ashutosh Sharma scored two and Vipraaj Nigam scored 12 runs. At the same time, Mitchell Starc and Dushmantha Chameera remained unbeaten without opening the account. For RCB, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took three wickets while Hazelwood got two wickets. Apart from this, Yash Dayal and Krunal Pandya got one success each.

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