Tonight the match was won by Royal Challengers Bangalore beating Delhi Daredevils by 6 runs at their home game in Feroz Shah Kotla Stadium of New Delhi.
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As the match started, Delhi Daredevils were invited to bat first as the toss was won by the skipper of RCB, Virat Kohli who chose to bowl first.
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The first innings started with a big blow for the Daredevils as Prithvi Shaw returned back to pavilion after a few balls. The same happened with Jason Roy. Both the openers of the team couldn’t contribute much to the team.
The skipper of the team, Shreyas Iyer scored 32 off 35 balls, while the star player of the team, Rishabh Pant played a brilliant knock and scored 61 off 34 balls. Vijay Shankar (21) and Abhishek Sharma (46) stretched the total scores to 181 runs after the match.
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Royal Challengers Bangalore chased the target of 181 runs wonderfully. Tonight, the star batsmen of the team took the match by storm by playing an outstanding knocks. The audience witnesses a brilliant partnership of AB de Villiers and Kohli.
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AB De Villiers remained unbeaten and scored a massive 72 runs off 37 balls, hitting 4 fours and 6 sixes. While on the other hand, the skipper of the team, Virat Kohli was in a great form tonight as he scored 70 runs in 40 balls, he smashed 7 fours and 3 sixes.
The bowlers of Delhi Daredevils tried their best but RCB won the match by 6 runs. Here’s how twitterati reacted to the great win of Royal Challengers Bangalore, have a look:
I see two really promising middle order left-handed bastmen in @RishabPant777 and @IamAbhiSharma4 who can make it to the Indian side. The Former is a good wicket keeper and the latter is a handy bowler. #DDVRCB #IPL2018
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) May 12, 2018
And @IamAbhiSharma4 has arrived ! 46 of 19 this kid is special dd vs RCB
— Yuvraj Singh (@YUVSTRONG12) May 12, 2018
17 year old Sandeep Lamichhane’s first IPL wicket is a guy who made his international debut as a 17 year old #DDvRCB
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 12, 2018
Prithvi Shaw, Abhishek Sharma and Sandeep Lamichhane – this is the first time in IPL a side has fielded three players of age 18 or less. #DDvRCB
— Bharath Seervi (@SeerviBharath) May 12, 2018
Historic! Congratulations Sandeep Lamichhane ! 1st player from Nepal to be debuting in the IPL #DDvRCB
— Rahul Dev (@RahulDevRising) May 12, 2018
Sandeep Lamichhanne….loved the first couple of overs. Such a lovely news for Nepal…and cricket in the region. More power to you, brother ?? #DDvRCB #IPL
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 12, 2018
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Amit Shah be like Bangalore ki seat to jeet rahe #RCB ko bhi jeetwa dete #DDvRCB pic.twitter.com/JFb9ZPytnK
— Rishabh Srivastava (@AskRishabh) May 12, 2018
Most sixes in IPL #DDvRCB #DD #RCB #IPL #IPL2018
291 Gayle
185 AB de Villiers *
184 Dhoni/ Rohit
182 Raina— Cricbuzz (@cricbuzz) May 12, 2018
Delhi strengthen their grip on the wooden spoon #DDvRCB
— Gaurav Kalra (@gauravkalra75) May 12, 2018
Very well done by @RCBTweets tonight. Well played @imVkohli @ABdeVilliers17 after a real good start from @yuzi_chahal #DDVRCB
— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) May 12, 2018
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Different when the big guys play. #AB #Kohli.
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) May 12, 2018
And @IamAbhiSharma4 has arrived ! 46 of 19 this kid is special dd vs RCB
— Yuvraj Singh (@YUVSTRONG12) May 12, 2018
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