Spinner Wanindu Hasaranga picked up a five-wicket haul after skipper Faf du Plessis’ impactful half-century as Royal Challengers recorded a 67-run victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad to spice up their play-off hopes within the IPL right here on Sunday.
Opting to bat on a sluggish floor, du Plessis led from the entrance with a 50-ball 73 not out, whereas Dinesh Karthik (eight-ball 30 not out) offered the late flourish as RCB overcame an anxious begin to put up 192/3.
In response, Sunrisers Hyderabad have been skittled out for 125 to crash to their fourth loss on the trot as Hasaranga stymied their chase with figures of 4-1-18-5.
The win additionally avenged their stunning nine-wicket loss to Hyderabad within the first leg on the Brabourne the place Bangalore had collapsed to 68 fallout.
Making amend for a sloppy outing on the sector, Hasaranga cleverly used his fallacious ones and derailed their chase within the center overs with wickets of the hardhitting Nicholas Pooran and Jagadeesha Suchith in successive overs.
The Lankan then ended his spell in fashion with a double-wicket maiden, dismissing Shashank Singh and Umran Malik in successive deliveries to just about seal it for Bangalore.
With this, he turned the second bowler after Yuzvendra Chahal to get previous the 20-wicket mark within the IPL. Hasaranga is now one wicket shy of present Purple Cap holder Chahal’s tally of twenty-two.
Hyderabad No 3 Rahul Tripathi made a tremendous 58 to maintain them within the hunt however Josh Hazlewood (2/17) dismissed him and adopted it up with the wicket of Kartik Tyagi subsequent ball.
For Bangalore, it was their second win in a row, approaching the again of a hattrick of defeats as they firmed up their place inside top-four.
Likewise Bangalore, Hyderabad too had a jittery begin and went on to lose two wickets within the first over of their tall chase of 193.
Like Kohli, Williamson additionally went for a golden duck in a uncommon occasion — solely third in IPL — {that a} wicket fell on the primary ball of each the innings.
Earlier, Du Plessis slammed eight boundaries and two sixes en path to his third fifty this season and seized the initiative after he misplaced his opening companion Virat Kohli.
The South African veteran together with Rajat Patidar (48 in 38 balls; 4×4, 2×6) laid a stable basis with a 105-run second wicket partnership off 73 balls.
But Hyderabad bowlers led by spinner Jagadeesha Suchith (2/30) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0/34) slowed issues a bit within the center overs earlier than Dinesh Karthik gave a last-over flourish (25 runs) to prop up the entire.
Making full use of a reprieve by Rahul Tripathi within the third ball of the ultimate over, the Indian skilled wicketkeeper-batter went on to make a quickfire eight-ball 30 not out.
He smashed 4 sixes, three of them coming in succession adopted by a boundary within the final over towards Afghanistan debutant Fazalhaq Farooqi, en path to his entertaining cameo.
Hyderabad had their solitary second of glory, the very first ball of the sport when Kohli (0) obtained out for a 3rd golden duck this season, sixth general in IPL. This was additionally his second golden duck towards the identical group season.
Enduring his worst-ever IPL — 216 runs from 12 innings at 19.6 — Kohli had one comfortable dismissal off a Suchith half volley drifting onto his pads, and the star batter managed to flick it straight to Williamson at brief midwicket.
It was all about RCB thereafter as Du Plessis and the younger Patidar seized the momentum with their counter-attacking strategy.
Hyderabad younger pace service provider Umran Malik bowled again of the size on what was a sluggish pitch and the batters had on a regular basis on supply to take him to cleaners in his first over that yielded 20 runs.
Well-settled Patidar nonetheless missed his fifty by two runs changing into Suchith’s second sufferer, miscuing one within the thirteenth over.
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