KL Rahul punished Virat Kohli by scoring the first century of the IPL season as Kings XI Punjab defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 97 runs in Dubai.
Kings XI captain Rahul won a landslide
victory for his team - this was his first campaign. He scored an unbeaten 132
off 69 balls.
India International scored 42 runs in
their last nine overs as RCB was severely punished’ at the time of death, their
last two overs were 49 by Dale Steyn (0-57) and Shyam Doob (2-23). We’re going
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Rahul increased his ton incredibly and saw
Stan return with 26 runs as Kings XI added 157-3 to 206-3 at the end of their
innings.
The RCB paid a heavy price to skipper
Kohli for dropping Rahul twice, when he was at 83-90, he was at 83 again and
wanted to make a surprising hesitation of late.
Bangalore never looked like a match. He was
down 3-4 when Sheldon Cottrell (17-2) knocked Kohli out for one, with
Washington Sundar (30) and AB de Villiers (28) the only players to score more
than 209. When he was defeated by 109 runs.
Record - BREAKING Rahul
Rahul set the record for the highest score
by an Indian batsman in the IPL, surpassing Resbhab Pant's unbeaten 128 for the
Delhi Daredevils in 2018.
De Villiers (133no), Brendon McCullum
(158no) and Chris Gayle (175no) are the only players who improved Rahul's knock
in the match.
He finished with 14 fours and seven sixes
at most.
No way
The RCB was left’ to climb the mountain
when Kohat cut Kotral near Ravi Bishnoi and then when Dev Padikkal sent the
same man from the left to the West Indies at mid-on.
Bishnoi (3-32) also claimed impressively
performances from Aaron Finch (20), Umesh Yadav (0), and Sunder's scallops, but
the choice of bowlers was Morgan Ashwin.
His league spin counted de Villiers and
took the RCB out of their predicament, with Sudeep Sen (6) and Yuzwinder Chahal
(1) losing their last wickets when Ashwin were 3-21 in their three overs Ended
with
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