RCB settles for 189-9, proves again they are heavily dependent on trio of Kohli, Faf, Maxwell. Fall of wickets and run rate after Maxwell gone was surprising to watch.
Virat Kohli might not have thought that he would bat so badly in the match. Virat Kohli got out first ball.
He didn't bat bad, he just got out on a good ball. Better wording would be, "Kohli might not have thought he would go out in first ball of match".
Rajasthan looked to be on top of Bangalore at the beginning with 2 wickets of RCB falling very quickly, but it seems the match has turned sides already with Glenn Maxwell and Faf Du Plessis building an amazing partnership of over 100 already and both of them are still batting. Both players have scored more than 50 runs each.
The projected score is pretty high and there are a lot of overs left yet they also have got a lot of wickets in hand, so it's probably going to be a huge target for Rajasthan Royals to chase today and we will see if they are up to the task or not.
156 at 15 overs, and they settle for 189 by end of innings. Just 33 runs in last five! Meanwhile, Punjab yesterday made 96 in last 5.
The first innings game between RCB vs Rajasthan Royals is over. At the end of the first innings, RCB collected 189 runs for 9 wickets. As I said before the start of the match, RCB's batting depends on three batsmen. RCB managed to achieve this score due to the excellent performance of two of those three.
Glenn Maxwell (77), Faf du Plessis (62) these two batsmen have collected 149 runs. So it is clear how important their good performance is for the team.
The opening pair of Rajasthan Royals came to bat with a target of 190 runs. Buttler was bowled out by Md Siraj in the first over and returned to the pavilion.
However, the batting line-up of Rajasthan Royals is very strong. Hope the middle order batsmen will take the game.
