Kohli Half-century Sets Up Bengaluru Chasing Down Punjab In IPL – News18

BENGALURU, India: Royal Challengers Bengaluru rode Virat Kohli’s 51st half-century within the Indian Premier League to beat Punjab Kings by 4 wickets on Monday.

After scoring a quiet 21 at Chennai in a shedding trigger on Friday, Kohli made a a lot noisier 77 off 49 balls to fireplace Bengaluru’s chase.

Dinesh Karthik’s unbeaten 28 off 10 balls carried Bengaluru dwelling to 178-6 with 4 balls to spare.

Punjab posted a sub-par 176-6. Captain Shikhar Dhawan scored 45 and Shashank Singh made 21 off eight balls late within the innings.

Kohli, coming again after greater than two months out to be along with his spouse for the delivery of his second baby, used his ft properly to hit his trademark punching cowl drives as Punjab paid the value for letting him escape twice.

In an eventful first over bowled by Sam Curran, Jonny Bairstow couldn’t maintain onto a pointy overhead catch at first slip off the second ball Kohli confronted. Rahul Chahar then spilled a tricky one-handed catching alternative at quick midwicket when Kohli was on 33.

Despite Kohli’s dominant innings, Punjab rallied within the center overs via Harpreet Brar (2-13), and the required price soared to just about 12 an over. Brar clear-bowled Rajat Patidar (18) and Glenn Maxwell (3) and held onto a pointy catch of Kohli at deep level within the sixteenth over.

But Karthik and influence participant Mahipal Lamor, 17 not out, smacked 48 runs off the final 18 balls for Bengaluru.

Earlier, Mohammed Siraj (2-26) and Yash Dayal (1-23) bowled properly up entrance and saved the Punjab batters in test as Dhawan struggled to up the ante earlier than holing out within the deep to Maxwell (2-29).

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