AB De Villiers and Umesh Yadav were the stars of the day for Royal Challengers Bangalore as they beat Kings XI Punjab by four wickets to register their first win of the ongoing Indian Premier 🅷League (IPL) season at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore on Friday.
With this victory, RCB has opened their account as far as the IPL points table is concerned while as for KXIP, this was the✅ir first defeat of the season.
Chasing a tricky total of 156, RCB lost early wickets including Brendon McCullum and Virat Kohli but AB de Villiers and Quinton de Kock resisted well and stitched a strong partnership. Later, they lost wickets in quick succession but De Villiers stood strong at one end and went on to score a half-century. The Proteas batsman was undone by Andrew Tye but that didn’t really affect the result of the match as Washington Sundar completed the win for RCB as he hit the winning stroke.
Sundar looked off-colour in the first match that he played for RCB against Kolkata Knight Riders but looked in good touch on Friday. He scalped an important wꦬicket of KL Rahul and also removed Marcus Stoinis to return with figures of 2/22 in 4 overs.
The pick of the bowlers for RCB was Umesh Yadav who bagged the wickets of Mayank Agarwal, Aaron Finch and Yuvraj Singh in one over and turned the game in RCB’s favour.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to the match:
Good for RCB t🎉o get points on the board. Mujeeb bowled beautifully for 3 overs, the ball to get Kohli was a dream delivery, but ABD turned the game in his 4th over with those two sixes, will be a great learning curve for the 17 year old.
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif)
This is a masterclass …
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan)
In Mujeeb there is a mystery but don’t forget Abd has a great history…great history of winning matches n doing unthinkable ( I know he jut got out but had to say that)
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
How good ♑this KL Rahul is batting. Spring in the bat;). N Umesh Yadav is in♍ great rhythm
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Ashwin’s captaincy. Mandeep’s batting. Sundar’s bowling. Aspects that might not get enough admiration and appreciation….but stood out.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
. must be like wake me up only when things are not going way.ꦛ He has🅘 been a bowler slayer. Btw kaam to hogaya “haathi nikal gaya reh gayi pooch”
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha)
Wow well bowled buddy… hard work pays. Experience always comes handy. Need to get the two local boys out.
— Pragyan Ojha (@pragyanojha)
One more final over finish this , Well don꧃e on the Victory
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv)
We ceꩲlebrated our first victory of and it was fitting that it in our first home game! A big shoutไ-out to the Bold performances from the entire unit 💪😎
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
RCB have won an IPL match including AB de Villiers for the💃 first time in 💟12 matches.
They had lost each of their p🍷revious 11 games in whi❀ch ABD featured.
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath)
Just a week of and how many last over finishes already?! It's like no one wants to win easily this season.
— Chetan Narula (@chetannarula)
Aggression level: Mr & Mrs Kohli
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
What a ball to dismiss absolutely ♉amazing to watch 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻
— Rashid Khan (@rashidkhan_19)
“Kohli ka, McCullum ka, Sarfraz ka…sabka badla lega tera AB..”
— The Lying Lama 2.0 (@KyaUkhaadLega)
Anushka be like !
— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh)
good game – a 17 year old bowled the ball of the tournament and an 18 year old hit the winning runs
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75)
Virat Kohli to
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS)
What a🗹 🌞spell this is turning out to be! Umesh Yadav fighting it back for .
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
AB de Villiers' guides Royal Challengers Bangalore to their 1st win of the season
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
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I like how has this wide bright smile every time RCB is managing to take wickets or block KXIP from getting runs. you are one lucky man!𒈔
— Kasturi🍀🌈 (@Kasturi_Subhash)
Just a reminder : Kohli's team won when Anushka was there in stadium.
Unlucky?— Ajitdeep (@CHAIHOLIC_)
