RCB vs PBKS / Faf du Plessis played 88 runs innings in 57 balls with 3 four and 7 sixes against Punjab Kings

RCB vs PBKS | In the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL 2022, Royal Challengers Bangalore ie RCB has landed with a new captain. Virat Kohli had resigned from the captaincy post last year. In such a situation, before IPL 2022, RCB appointed Faf du Plessis as the captain of the team and he proved in the very first match that the Bangalore team has done a good job by trusting him.

Right-handed batsman Faf du Plessis reached his half-century in 41 balls with the help of 2 fours and 3 sixes, but he scored only 23 runs in the first 34 balls. After this, he started giving pace to his innings and hit four sixes within five balls. Faf du Plessis scored the 23rd half-century of his IPL career, which is the first half-century as captain. Faf du Plessis was dismissed after scoring 88 runs in 57 balls with the help of 3 fours and 7 sixes. His strikerate was 154.39 in this innings.

In IPL 2022, Faf du Plessis's bat got the first half-century for RCB, while this is the third half-century of this season. Before him, MS Dhoni had scored half-centuries for Chennai Super Kings and Ishan Kishan for Mumbai Indians. However, both the teams got defeated. Now it remains to be seen whether this half-century of Faf du Plessis is useful for the team or not.

3000 IPL runs in the shortest innings

In the history of IPL, Faf du Plessis has equaled David Warner, who is third in this list after Chris Gayle and KL Rahul. Chris Gayle scored 75, KL Rahul scored 80 and David Warner had crossed the 3 thousand IPL run mark in 94 innings. Faf du Plessis has also done this amazing in 94 innings. Suresh Raina scored 3000 IPL runs in 103 innings.