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  • 6 teams in race after 49 matches, RCB and Delhi Capitals need one win

    As of Thursday, the league has 49 matches in IPL-13. Only Mumbai has been able to secure its place in the playoffs. Now there are seven matches of the league left. However, for the three teams of the play-off, 6 teams Delhi Capitals, Royal Challengers Bangalore, Kolkata Knight Riders, Kings XI Punjab, Rajasthan Royals, Sunrisers Hyderabad remain in contention. But Delhi Capitals and Bengaluru are away with a win. They must win one of the remaining matches of the league.

    Delhi Capitals – There are 14 points now. The league has two matches left. She will qualify for the playoffs as soon as she wins a match. Delhi have one match with Mumbai Indians on Saturday, while the second match is with Royal Challengers Bangalore on Monday. If Delhi loses both matches, it will have to depend on the performance of Punjab and KKR.

    Royal Challengers Bangalore – currently 14 points. Two matches are yet to be played in the league. Bengaluru are scheduled to play with Sunrisers Hyderabad on Saturday. If won, it will reach the play-off. The second match is with Delhi Capitals on Monday. If both matches are lost, then KKR and Punjab will have to depend on the performance of Kings XI.

    Kings XI Punjab – currently 12 points. Two matches remain. Both matches have to be won to reach the play-offs easily. One match is with Rajasthan Royals today. While the second match is with Chennai Super Kings on Sunday. If lost, it will have to depend on the performance of Hyderabad and Delhi.

    Kolkata Knight Riders – 12 points at present. He has only one match to play in the league. He will have to depend on the performance of Punjab, Delhi and Hyderabad along with winning at a better run rate. To play with Rajasthan Royals on Sunday. Rajasthan will have to be defeated by more wickets or more than 80 runs. Only then can she stay in the race.

  • He is a freak, isn’t he?’ RCB coach Simon Katich names the ‘greatest of all time’

    He may have retired from international cricket more than two years back. He also may not have played a lot of competitive cricket in the last few years. But there is no denying that South African great AB de Villiers is still one of the best batsmen in world cricket right now. AB had admitted in the initial games that he was nervous about finding form ahead of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 due to lack of match practice. But those fears were allayed in the very first game of the season. And de Villiers has continued to pile on the runs for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) this season. Even on Saturday, de Villiers was ominous form as he smashed 55 runs off just 22 balls to help RCB register a seven-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals at Dubai International Stadium.

    RCB Head coach Simon Katich on Saturday described de Villiers as a “freak” who single-handedly won Royal Challengers Bangalore the game against RR.

    “He is a freak, isn’t he? That’s why he is the greatest of all time. What we saw was another masterclass, we have seen a number of them already in this tournament.”He had one here against Mumbai, and obviously the other day he got 73 off 33,” Katich said during the press conference.

  • Kohli hit a double century of matches for RCB

     As soon as the 31st match of the 13th season of the Indian Premier League i.e. IPL started on the ground of Sharjah, the Royal Challengers Bangalore i.e. RCB captain Virat Kohli made a record in his name. The match was against Kings XI Punjab, in which Virat Kohli scored a double century for RCB in terms of matches. On this occasion, Virat Kohli also gave a statement and said that it is not less than any honor for him.

    In fact, Virat Kohli had landed in his 185th match against Punjab for Royal Challengers Bangalore in the history of IPL. With this, he became the first player to play in the 200th match for RCB. Now you must be thinking that when he played 185 matches in IPL for RCB, then how did 200 matches happen? If you are thinking like this then you are not wrong, but he played the 200th match for RCB on Thursday, 15 October.

    Yes, Virat Kohli has played 15 matches for RCB in Champions League T20. In this way, he has become the first player to land 200 matches for the Bangalore team. So far no player has played so many matches for RCB. At the same time, during the toss on this special occasion, he was asked how you are feeling after achieving this special achievement, then he said that it means a lot to me.

    RCB captain Virat Kohli said, RCB means a lot to me, not many people can understand this emotion of mine. 200 matches is a wonderful thing for the team. I never thought in 2008 that this would happen. It is an honor for me. They retained me and I remained with them. Let me tell you, Virat Kohli is the only player who is still playing for the same team in the IPL.

  • RCB’s biggest win against KKR, in top-3 in points table

    In the 28th match of the 13th season of IPL, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 82 runs. This is RCB’s biggest win in terms of runs against KKR. Earlier, Bangalore defeated Kolkata by 10 runs in 2019. With this win, Bengaluru has moved up to third place in the points table

    Bengaluru had given a target of 195 runs while batting first. In response, KKR could only manage 112 runs for 9 wickets. The team’s 8 batsmen, including captain Dinesh Karthik, could not even touch the figure of Dahi.

    KKR’s Shubman Gill scored 34, Rahul Tripathi and Andre Russell scored 16-16. Bengaluru’s Sundar and Chris Morris got 2-2 wickets each. Navdeep Saini, Isuru Udana, Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammad Siraj got 1-1 wicketsthe hero of the previous match, KKR captain Dinesh Karthik could score only one run in this match. He was bowled by Yuzvendra Chahal. After this, Eoin Morgan also could not sustain much and scored 8 runs and was caught by Isuru Udana at the ball of Washington Sundar..

  • Delhi Capitals’ bench-strength good enough for another IPL team, says Ashwin

    After registering an emphatic 59-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) here on Monday, Delhi Capitals’ (DC) off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin hailed the bench strength of the side, saying that it is good enough to form another Indian Premier League (IPL) team.

    Before the match against RCB, Delhi received a big blow as spinner Amit Mishra was ruled out of the tournament due to a finger injury. In place of Mishra, Axar Patel was given a chance against the Virat Kohli-led side, and he responded impressively with figures of 2-18 from his four overs.
    “That’s one of the beauty of this particular Delhi side. Even when my shoulder dislocated, Amit came in and played the role. Now he is injured, so Axar has come in and played the role. There is enough strength on our bench and sometimes when it comes to the IPL, the people coming out of that bench become very important. That bench is probably good enough to be another IPL team, it has got a lot of quality,” Ashwin said during the post-match press conference.

  • 3 players you can pick as captain or vice-captain for today’s match

    The Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and the Delhi Capitals (DC) lock horns in the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020) tonight.

    Both teams have had excellent starts to their respective campaigns, and have registered 3 wins from their first 4 games each. The winner of the RCB vs DC IPL 2020 game will go to the top of the points table.

    DC suffered a loss to the Sunrisers Hyderabad thanks to a Rashid Khan special, but turned things around against the Kolkata Knight Riders courtesy of splendid performances from Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw and Anrich Nortje. The team looks formidable, both on paper and on the IPL 2020 table, with star spinner Ravichandran Ashwin also back to full fitness.

  • Gambhir and Boys Look to Stop Gayle Storm

    Bruised and battered after a string of defeats, Delhi Daredevils find themselves in an ‘oh-so-familiar’ situation as they seek home comfort against a Chris Gayle-inspired Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League on Monday. Without an iota of doubt, the Daredevils have been the least impressive of all teams in the past few seasons of the cash-rich extravaganza, only managing to finish at the bottom half of the pecking order.

    In the last two seasons, the Daredevils ended their campaign at sixth position, were a place down in 2015 and finished last the year before, in 2014. The story has been similar in the ongoing edition as they struggle with fours reverses from five outings to occupy the last place.

    They were done in by the versatile AB de Villiers’ smashing knock last night and up next at the Feroz Shah Kotla, Daredevils will be up against the destructive Gayle, who has made a statement with two fifties and century, scoring those runs in his trademark style.

    Thanks to Gayle’s belligerence, Kings XI Punjab are firmly placed at the top of the order with four victories and a solitary defeat. Given the form they have shown in the previous encounters, Kings XI Punjab will fancy their chances to continue the momentum against an embattled Delhi Daredevils outfit. Royal Challengers Bangalore chasing down a target of 175 with two overs to spare, is more of a reflection of Deredevils’ poor team selection rather than helplessness.

  • Lynn Looks to End Struggle With Bat Against KXIP

    Australian batsman Chris Lynn is known for his hitting prowess, and has proven credentials as a destructive batsman. In the 107 T20 games he has played so far in his career, he has scored 2,997 run at a strike-rate of 147.12. The right-hand batsman can change the game in a matter of few overs, and for this very same hitting ability, he was bought by IPL franchise Kolkata Knight Riders for 9.60 Cr.

    But till now in this edition of the tournament, his bat has been quiet, and in 5 matches has scored 107 runs. Lynn, who had brilliant IPL season for KKR in 2017 where he scored 295 runs in 7 matches hasn’t had great time in 2018.

    In 2017, he scored two of the top-5 fastest fifties for KKR— 21 balls vs RCB and 19 balls vs GL. Not only that, his 93* in the first match against GL in 2017 was the highest individual score for KKR last year. Let’s compare Lynn’s first five IPL innings in 2017 against 2018.

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    Come Saturday, Lynn would be hoping to turnaround his fortunes, and get some runs under his belt. Till now his highest score in this edition of the games is 49 against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Lynn has struggled against spin and was seen playing with a horizontal bat in only the second ball of his innings to K. Gowtham who castled him in the last match against Rajasthan.