Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) began their IPL 2023 marketing campaign with a good-looking win over Mumbai Indians by eight wickets. But their pacer Reece Topley sustained an injury whereas fielding within the first innings. While fielding on the quick nice leg, Topley’s knee received caught within the floor and fell awkwardly on his shoulder and was grimacing in ache. The physio attended him quickly however there was no instant restoration and therefore, the left-arm pacer walked off the sector. Topley had bowled solely two overs till then and did not come again to finish his quota of 4 overs.
After the match RCB wicketkeeper Dinesh Karthik, whereas talking to Jio Cinema, offered an update on Topley’s injury. He admitted that the injury appeared severe at first however believes that the ache shouldn’t be a lot now. However, the cricketer was taken for scans and the outcomes of the identical are awaited now.
“It (shoulder) did pop out, but it went back in. I think he went for a scan during the game itself. He’s not in as much pain as we thought he’d be in. We’ll have to wait and see,” Karthik mentioned. RCB shall be hoping for Topley to recuperate quickly as Josh Hazlewood is already unlikely to play not less than within the first half of the season.
Virat Kohli was the star for RCB with the bat within the sport scoring an unbeaten 82. Speaking after the match, Kohli was delighted that the group gained whereas enjoying their first match in 4 years in Bengaluru. He additionally lauded leg-spinner Karn Sharma for delivering a terrific spell. “I believed it was an outstanding win, a homecoming after 4 years. Couldn’t have requested for a greater sport. We bowled effectively for the primary 17 overs however then credit score to their batters particularly Tilak who batted rather well. It was a really complete win and we needed to win with balls to spare as it’s going to profit the NRR.
“The new ball was difficult, that is the place we shifted the momentum, they will trip on that momentum from the final two overs of their batting however the best way we began nullified all that momentum. We saved the strain on the bowlers. Phenomenal, it was a packed crowd, each seat was full after we walked in right here. Very necessary we began off effectively, their help propelled us and that makes an enormous distinction.
“I feel he was phenomenal, phenomenal spell from him, that is courageous bowling after getting the left-hander out [on Karn Sharma]. He was bowling so effectively for us final yr however he could not play. Even within the nets he was not getting hit for sixes, hats off to him for coming and enjoying after so lengthy, to carry out towards such a powerful MI aspect on the Chinnaswamy is nice for him.
“I wanted to mention this for a while – after MI who have 5 titles and CSK who have 4, if I’m not wrong, we are the third team to have qualified the most times to the playoffs – 8 times. Take one game at a time and try to be a balanced side which we are and we would look to execute our plans as we did tonight,” Kohli mentioned.
