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In the 31st match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022, Royal Challengers Bangalore𒁏 (RCB) defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) by 18 runs at Dr DY Patil Sports Academy in Mumbai o🎉n Tuesday.
Chasing the massive target of 182, Lucknow never really got the momentum and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. Krunal Pandya, with 42 off 28 b🐻alls, was their highest scorer as the KL Rahul-led side could only manage to reach 163/8, losing the contest by 18 ﷽runs.
Speedster Josh Hazlewood was at h♈i𒁃s best with the ball, not allowing LSG batters to find the rhythm at all. The right-armer picked up a brilliant 4-wicket haul while conceding only 25 runs in his quota of 4 overs.
Earlier, Faf du Plessis led RCB from the front, smashing an incredible knock to push his side breach the 180-run mark af༺ter the Challengers were four down for just 62 runs in 7.2 overs.
Du Plessis stayed until the second last ball of RCB’s innings to ensure his team reached a big total. The South African star scored 96 runs off just 64 balls, including 11 fours and a couple of sixes, as RCB posted 181/6 on the board in 20 overs.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Back-to-back wins. ✅
A comprehensive perfo🐲rmance with the bat and🏅 ball. ✅Let’s take this momentum into the next challen🦂ge. 💪🏻 🦂
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
Winning the game from Losღing two wickets in the first over of the game, we꧒ll done RCB 👏
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Josh’s stellar spell of 4/25 is an outstanding per♕formanc𝔍e which helped to pull this one.
— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R)
Brilliant Joshౠ! A rare display of taking plenty of wickets and also being economical.
— parthiv patel (@parthiv9)
RCB have been tactically excellent and have given importance to ROLE Clarity which in my view is vital in the IPL. They have already been put in tough situations on many occasions a💦nd have come out well. If RCB can finish in the top 2 they have a great chance to go all the way.
— Gaurav Sundararaman (@gaurav_sundar)
That's that from Match 31. win by 18 runs against .
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
Chennai’s loss🦩 is Bangalore’s gain. Faf and Hazlewood. has been superb thus far…find🌃ing ways to win when a lot seems lost. 👏👏
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
defended 🐭189 runs against Delhi and 181 runs against Lucknow i꧒n .
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Reckon there are few batters as clinical in their approach to a T20 innings ෴than Faf du Plessis. Reckon his ton for Saint Lucia Ki෴ngs at last year’s CPL was the best put together T20 innings I have watched.
— Peter Miller (@TheCricketGeek)
❤️🏏 VICTORY FOR RCB! An all-around display of dom♋inance from Bangalore tonight as they pick up a solid victory over LSG!
💪 They're now placed second in the points table with 1️⃣0️⃣ points
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— The Bharat Army (@thebharatarmy)
— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
