Prolific Kohli leads RCB to 7-wicket victory

Virat Kohli compiled his 67th IPL rating of fifty or extra to guide the Royal Challengers Bengaluru to a snug victory by seven-wickets victory towards the Punjab Kings on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium in Chandigarh on Sunday afternoon.

Intelligent bowling restricted the house facet to a modest 157-6 and Kohli’s unbeaten 73 from 54 deliveries steered the guests to 159-3 to assert their fifth victory of the marketing campaign from eight matches.

Impression Participant Devdutt Padikkal made an equally vital contribution to the chase with an ingenious and highly effective 61 from solely 35 balls with 5 fours and 4 sixes earlier than Jitesh Sharma ended the match in dazzling type by pulling seamer Nehal Wadhera over midwicket for six to conclude victory with seven balls to spare.

However RCB spinners, Krunal Pandya and Suyash Sharma, have been the decide of the assault which arrange victory with the left armer claiming 2-25 and leggie Suyash 2-27 of their 4 overs apiece. Krunal’s guile accounted for each Punjab openers after a promising, aggressive begin with each Priyansh Aria (22) and Prabhsimran Singh (33 from 17 balls) miscuing drives to Aussie Tim David at lengthy on.

One other Australian, Josh Inglis, slapped 29 from 17 balls with two fours and a six earlier than dropping his off-stump to a basic, flighted leg-break from Suyash and the Punjab innings was in tatters at 114-6 earlier than Shashank Singh (31 from 33 balls) and Marco Jansen (25* from 20) rebuilt, albeit it modest tempo, with an unbroken seventh wicket partnership of 43 in within the closing six overs.

RCB joined their vanquished opponents in a four-way tie on the prime of the log with 5 wins and 10 factors from their eight matches though Gujarat Titans and Delhi Capitals have performed one match fewer.

PUNJAB KINGS: Prabhsimran Singh, Priyansh Arya, Shreyas Iyer, Josh Inglis, Nehal Wadhera, Shashank Singh, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jansen, Xavier Bartlett, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal

ROYAL CHALLENGERS BENGALURU: Phil Salt, Virat Kohli, Rajat Patidar (wk), Romario Shephard, Jitesh Sharma (wk), Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal, Suyash Sharma