In an exciting encounter at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday, Ro🦩yal Challengers 🍌Bangalore (RCB) defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) in Match 20 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023. It was Delhi’s fifth consecutive loss in the ongoing 16th season of the cash-rich league.
Put in to bat, RCB’s top-order batters, Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis, got off to a decent start, putting on 46 runs for the first wicket. Kohli continued his꧋ go༺od form and scored 50 runs off 34 balls with six fours and one six.
The middle-order batsmen, Mahipal Lomror and Glenn Maxwell, also made valuable contributions of 26 and 24 runs, respectively. Shahbaz Ahmed played a quick-fire knock of 20 runs off 12 balls, which h🗹elped RCB to set a challenging target of 175 runs for the loss of six wickets in their all🌠otted 20 overs.
In response, Delhi Capitals started poorly, losing their first three wickets for just two runs on the board. Manish Pandey tried to hold the innings together and scored a gritty half-century, but the RCB bowlers were too good for the Capitals’ middle order.
Vijaykumar Vyshak was the pick of the bowlers for RCB, picking up three wickets for 20 runs in his four overs. Mohammed Siraj and Harshal Patel also picked up important൲ wickets for RCB. Delhi Capitals could only manage to score ⛄151 runs for the loss of nine wickets in their 20 overs, falling short by 23 runs.
Here is how Twitter reacted:
Back to winning ways 🙌 regis🦄ter a 23-run win at home and clinch their second win of the season 👏👏
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— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL)
Two points ✅
Chinnaswamy – brilliant as always 👌— Virat Kohli (@imVkohli)
Back to winning ways! 🙌
T🥃op drawer performance on the field and here we a♈re with✌️ points in the 💼
— Royal Challengers Bangalore (@RCBTweets)
Royal Challengers Bangalore hand Delhi Cap💮itals their fifth consecutiveܫ loss.
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— betvisa68.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
Started with the brilliance of and then an outstanding spell from the debutant Vijaykumar Vyshak, it’s been a great performance from at their home!! & were fantastic too!! Hoping to see a great comeback from th🌳e !!
— Robin Aiyuda Uthappa (@robbieuthappa)
RCB beat DC by 23 runs, total dominance at home.
Stars are Kohli, Vijaykumar, Siraj.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Brilliant deception to get rid of David Warner from Vijaykum🏅ar Vyshak. C𝕴ongratulations buddy for your first ipl wicket 👏
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Virat Kohli won 4 Awar🤡ds tonight including the Player Of The Match award.
What a day for King Kohli!
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra)
Plenty of smiles by Marsh but it's a 23 run win for RCB!
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👉 👈 |— 🏏Flash🃏score Cr♓icket Commentators (@FlashCric)
Back to the drᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚawing board for us after a tough loss at Chinna꧂swamy.
— Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals)
Virat Kohl🤪i scoring half century, took 3༺ catches and RCB won. What a day for us❤️
— Pari (@BluntIndianGal)