Virat Kohli – that was the flavour of Thursday night in Dharamshala as the previous Indian cricket crew captain stamped his class all through an IPL 2024 match. First, he scored a 47-ball 92 to assist Royal Challengers Bengaluru rating 241/7 in 20 overs towards Punjab Kings. Then he was electrical on the sector, as he affected among the best runouts of the IPL 2024. And it helped, RCB deal a serious blow to PBKS by dismissing their most in-form batter, Shashank Singh.
Kohli’s brilliance singlehandedly earned RCB the wicket as Shashank Singh fell quick by inches. Kohli ran fairly a ways, pounced on the ball, threw it mid-air and celebrated it wildly.
He is unfolding magic tonight
First with the bat & now on the sector with that excellent direct hit
Watch the match LIVE on @StarSportsIndia and @JioCinema #TATAIPL | #PBKSvRCB | @imVkohli | @RCBTweets pic.twitter.com/6TsRbpamxG
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 9, 2024
He is unfolding magic tonight
First with the bat & now on the sector with that excellent direct hit
Watch the match LIVE on @StarSportsIndia and @JioCinema #TATAIPL | #PBKSvRCB | @imVkohli | @RCBTweets pic.twitter.com/6TsRbpamxG
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 9, 2024
Ran from almost 20 metres to a diving throw and a direct hit to run-out. He isn’t human Virat Kohli. #PBKSvsRCB #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/VyuLgn7lcP
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) May 9, 2024
Speaking in regards to the match, Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar conjured up superlative fifties earlier than the bowlers joined the celebration as Royal Challengers Bengaluru saved their slim playoff hopes alive with an enormous 60-run win over Punjab Kings within the IPL on Thursday.
Kohli’s 47-ball 92 was the cornerstone of RCB’s innings as he starred in two partnerships — 72 off 32 balls with Patidar (55 off 23 balls) and 92 off 46 balls with Cameron Inexperienced (46 off 27 balls) to propel RCB to 241/7.
In reply, Rilee Rossouw put up a present with a 27-ball 61-run knock however Karn Sharma’s twin strike triggered a collapse as PBKS had been all out for 181 in 17 overs.
This was a fourth successive win for RCB and it took them to 10 factors, whereas PBKS (8) had been knocked out of the playoff race as they will attain a most of 12 factors from the remaining two video games.
Swapnil Singh (2/28), Karn (2/36) and Lockie Ferguson (2/29) took two every, whereas Mohammed Siraj (3/43) claimed three wickets for RCB.
With PTI inputs
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