RCB beat GT by 8 wickets still in race for playoff

In the 67th match of IPL, Bengaluru defeated Gujarat by 8 wickets. GT had given a target of 169 runs to RCB. Virat Kohli scored the most runs for Bangalore. His bat scored 73 runs in 54 balls. At the same time, captain Faf du Plessis played an innings of 44 runs. Glenn Maxwell scored 40 runs in just 18 balls in the last over. Rashid Khan took both the wickets for Gujarat.

King's innings

Virat Kohli, who was in poor form, batted brilliantly in the match and scored 73 runs in just 54 balls. His bat hit 8 fours and 2 sixes. His strike rate was 135.18. Virat scored a half-century in just 33 balls. In IPL 2022, the second fifty came from the bat of the former RCB captain. This season Virat also scored his first half-century against Gujarat.

In the match, Faf du Plessis also supported Virat and was dismissed after scoring 44 runs in 38 balls. There was a partnership of 115 runs in 87 balls between Virat and Faf.

Hardik scored the most runs for Gujarat

Captain Hardik Pandya scored the most runs for GT. He played an innings of 62 runs in 47 balls. At the same time, Rashid Khan's bat also spoke a lot in the last over, he scored 19 runs in just 6 balls.

Jose Hazlewood took the most wickets for Bengaluru. He got 2 wickets in his account. However, he proved to be expensive in the last over. David Miller scored 34 and Saha 31 runs for Gujarat.

Matthew Wade got angry

In the sixth over of the match, Glenn Maxwell dismissed Matthew Wade LBW, but Wade felt the ball hit his bat or glove. He got angry and took the review. Replays show Wade is out. Wade was not happy with the decision. He went to the dressing room and threw his helmet and bat in anger. Its video is going viral on social media.

Maxwell's Amazing

Gujarat opener Shubman Gill could not do anything special in the match and was dismissed after scoring just 1 run. Hazlewood bowled a good length ball on the fourth stump, which fell and came out lightly. Gill tried to send the ball to the third man, but the ball went towards Maxwell and he took an amazing catch flying like Superman. This was also Hazlewood's 100th wicket in T20 cricket.

Playing XI of both the teams

Bengaluru: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasranga, Harshal Patel, Siddharth Kaul, Josh Hazlewood

Gujarat: Wriddhiman Saha, Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Hardik Pandya, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Shami.