IPL 2024: The 52nd match of the season is being played between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Gujarat Titans (GT) at M. Chinnaswami Stadium, Bengaluru.
RCB have won three matches and lost seven, currently placed at the bottom of the IPL points table. While Gujarat has won four matches so far and lost six. They are currently at seventh position in the points table.
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IPL 2024: RCB vs GT
1St Inning: Due to a brilliant performance by RCB bowlers and their own hesitation, Gujarat Titans were all out for a modest score of 147 runs in the Indian Premier League match here on Saturday.
For GT, there was a partnership of 61 runs between David Miller and Shahrukh Khan and a partnership of 44 runs between Rahul Tewatia and Rashid Khan.
Due to Siraj’s dominance in the first half, Gujarat’s power play score was 23 runs for three wickets, which was the lowest in this segment this season.
Actually, GT’s batsmen seemed clearly unable to accelerate even in the power play, managing only two fours in the segment as RCB’s fast bowlers, Mohammad Siraj took 2 wickets for 29 runs, while 2 wickets for 21 runs were dismissed. Took wickets, which provided ample evidence of the accuracy of RCB bowlers.
2nd Inning: Virat Kohli led the Indian team with an excellent performance scoring 42 runs in today’s match, while Faf du Plessis’s brilliant batting of 64 runs led the team to a resounding win.
Virat Kohli’s batting rate was 155.56, whereas Du Plessis’s batting rate was 278.26. Noor Ahmed got Virat Kohli wicket with his bowling. Other batsmen of the team, Will Jacques, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell and Cameron Green jointly scored only 7 runs.
Finally, Dinesh Karthik and Swapnil Singh played well for the team, scoring 21 and 15 runs with their good batting, while Noor Ahmed and Joshua Little controlled them well with their bowling.
IPL 2024, RCB vs GT: Statement
Shubman Gill: It all depends on the wicket, you see the first couple of overs. You get an idea and you play according to that. I think 170-180 on this wicket would have been a good total.
I think how we batted in the powerplay and how we bowled in the powerplay, that made a difference. We would have an extra bowling option (had we not lost early wickets.) Never easy.
It’s important for us to start from zero (in the next game), need to move on. Many positives to take from this game, need to make sure we don’t repeat our mistakes. It’s all about winning everything we can from here on.
Faf du Plessis | RCB Captain: We’ve been really good in the last few games, with both bat and ball. We’ve been unbelievable in the field as well. The wicket was a bit different, there was a bit more bounce. Wanted to make sure we take that information from the pitch and give it to the bowlers.
Yes there was a dropped catch but it’s the effort that we look for and that was there throughout. The games we’ve played here have all been high-scoring, anything around 180-190 would’ve been par.
Was important we didn’t look at the scoreboard when we went out to bat and try and play the way we play. Was a bit nervous. Probably not the best assessment from us there.
Yes we wanted to go out there and get the total quickly to boost the NRR but probably when we were 4 down, we had to calm down a little bit.
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