Royal Challengers Bangalore’s 20-year-old opener Devdutt Padikkal, who scored his maiden IPL hundred towards Rajasthan Royals to take Virat Kohli’s group to a 10-wicket victory mentioned it wouldn’t have mattered if he had missed out on the century. Padikkal remained unbeaten on 101 from 52 balls.
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“I told Virat to go for it. At the end of the day even if I didn’t get a hundred it wouldn’t have mattered to me if the team won,” Padikkal mentioned within the post-match presentation ceremony.
Padikkal’s 100 got here off simply 51 deliveries and he reached the milestone with a pristine drive by means of additional cowl for 4. The fashionable left-hander launched six sixes and 11 fours in his unbeaten knock.
RCB captain Virat Kohli additionally praised the younger batter for his, “It was an outstanding innings. He batted really well for his first season last time. There was a lot of talk about him not accelerating after getting to 30s. He’s put all that to rest.”
Padikkal who was RCB’ highest run-getter final season with 473 runs from 15 matches, had missed the primary match of this season as he had contracted Covid-19 forward of the beginning of this season. On his first match after recovering from the lethal virus, Padikkal scored 11 towards Sunrisers Hyderabad, adopted by 25 towards KKR.
“When I was down with COVID, all I was thinking of ways to come here and play the first match here. I couldn’t do that but was keen to contribute to the team’s win,” he added.
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Chasing 178, RCB had been on high of their recreation proper from the beginning as each Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal performed some elegant cricket to nullify RR’s bowling assault.
“The conversation was very clear, we both realised when we were going good. There were times when he was going better, times when I was going better. We just wanted to rotate the strike,” Padikkal mentioned.
At the beginning of the sport, Virat Kohli had mentioned he would like to bat on this pitch and when the time got here, he and Padikkal stitched RCB’s highest opening wicket partnership ever within the IPL.
Royal Challengers Bangalore have now reclaimed the highest spot within the IPL factors desk with 4 wins in as many matches. They are the one unbeaten group within the league.
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