Royal Challengers Bengaluru displayed brilliant bowling and memorable fielding efforts to bowl out Gujarat Titans on 147 in the continued IPL 2024 match at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Saturday. Star batter Virat Kohli stole the limelight once more as he produced a stellar direct hit to expire settled Shahrukh Khan.
After dropping the toss, Gujarat had been compelled to bat first and misplaced the highest order in powerplay overs with simply 19 runs on the scoreboard. But David Miller and Shahrukh Khan added 61 runs for the fourth wicket to place Gujarat on a observe for a difficult whole.
Karn Sharma gave Bengaluru a breakthrough with Miller’s massive wicket in the twelfth over after which Virat Kohli confirmed his well-known fielding abilities with a sensational throw to expire Shahrukh Khan in the thirteenth over. On-strike Rahul Tewatai defended Vijaykumar Vyshak’s supply at a degree the place Kohli picked the ball and rapidly directed it in direction of a non-striker finish to dismiss Shahrukh Khan.
Shahrukh top-scored with 37 runs off 24 balls as Gujarat Titans managed to submit a 147/10 whole in 19.3 overs. Kohli additionally took a simple catch to dismiss in-form Sai Sudharshan on Cameron Green’s supply. Vijaykumar Vyshak turned out a hero for the hosts with two wickets and two brilliant catches to disclaim Gujarat a 150-plus whole.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Will Jacks, Glenn Maxwell, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Karn Sharma, Swapnil Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal, Vijaykumar Vyshak.
Gujarat Titans Playing XI: Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill (c), Sai Sudharsan, David Miller, Shahrukh Khan, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Manav Suthar, Noor Ahmad, Mohit Sharma, Joshua Little.
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