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Local lad Vijaykumar Vishak took three wickets on debut to complement Virat Kohli’s commanding fifty as Royal Challengers Bangalore returned to winning ways with a dominant 23-round victory over Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League in Bangalore on Saturday. Kohli (50 off 34 balls) scored his third fifty in four innings – assisted by six boundaries and six – before Kuldip Yadav (4-1-23-2) led the Delhi Capitals’ attack on the left hand. medium overs limit RCB to 174/6 after David Warner decided to bowl.
The bottom placed Delhi team, who entered the match after four losses at the trot, then ridiculed the 175-run chase as they were capped at 151/9 in the stipulated 20 overs.
Delhi lost four powerplay wickets, including to Skipper Warner (19 out of 13 balls) and had 2 runs out of 3 wickets at one stage.
However, the team coached by Ricky Ponting has little time left to open their scoring after five matches. They now face the daunting task of winning eight of their remaining nine games to secure a playoff spot.
RCB, on the other hand, got their campaign back on track after consecutive losses as they have four points in the same number of matches.
Vyshak, who was handed debut in place of Karn Sharma, took his first wicket in the form of Warner with a slower delivery en route to his memorable 3/20 catch.
The 26-year-old varied his pace and combined his length well to harass batters as he took two more wickets – Aksar Patel and Lalit Yadav – as DC dropped to 110/8 in 16 overs.
After Warner (19 of 13 balls) came out cheaply, Manish Pandey had a lone battle with a 37-50, his 22nd 50 in the tournament.
But sly Sri Lankan spinner Vanindu Hasaranga de Silva snared Pandey after a clever review and it was all over for Washington.
Continuing his dreadful run, Shaw (0) picked up a fifth single-figure run in eight IPL innings when he fell victim to an amazing knockout from Impact player replacement Anuj Rawat.
Prithvi has always been slow in his run and he has shown a clear lack of intention to open up Warner.
The show got off to a rocky start with blocks, with Rawat hitting the target with his throw from extra cover. Shaw now has 34 runs, including two ducks, in five innings in this IPL.
Earlier, the DC bowlers did the right thing by limiting the RCB to 174 for 6. The RCB was 110 for 2 of 12 overs, but only managed to add 64 runs due to losing four wickets in the last eight overs.
RCB went all out with Kohli and Glenn Maxwell (24 of 14 balls) who had six hits.
But the DC spin trio of Kuldip, Aksar Patel (3-0-25-1) and Lalita Yadav (4-0-29-1) seized the moment.
Mitchell Marsh (2/18 after two overs), who returned to the team after his marriage, also made significant contributions by providing wickets to RCB captain Faf Du Plessis and Mahipal Lomrore.
The famed duo Cohli-du Plessis started with no fuss, scoring 33 points over four overs.
Kohli potted Henrich Nortier for a perfect boundary while the South African raised with a pair of fours.
Du Plessis went out to Axar for the first six matches after the spin was introduced in the fourth over.
With Kohli in the box, RCB looked in his comfort zone with an 89/1 halfway through.
But then RCB found themselves in the backyard and fell to 132/6 after Kuldip grabbed the wickets of Maxwell and Dinesh Kartik (0) after consecutive deliveries.
The double wicket girls’ game was preceded by Aksar’s dismissal of Harshal Patel as DC secured a team hat-trick that turned the tide in the 15th over.
Harshal’s dismissal was strange. Wicket-keeper Abhishek Porel filed an appeal against LBW and the review showed a weak rebound right off the bat as Harshal was eventually fired after being caught in the back.
It was Lalit who fired Kohli with a big throw. The star Indian slugger died after failing to clear the Midwicket border.
Maxwell took the stage with aggressive intent and fired up Yadav for a couple of sixes for the same thing to make it all work right away.
Maxwell was in no mood to give up and the scoring nearly hit 10 over over as Warner caught the ball back to sack his Australian teammate.
In the next ball, Karthik got behind the golden duck and it was DC who ran out of nowhere.
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