The Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) captain Faf du Plessis did not carry out with the bat towards Shreyas Iyer-led Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) within the thirty sixth match of the Indian Premier League 2024 (IPL 2024) on Sunday, April 21, on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata.
Faf du Plessis was heading into the match on the again of three good performances for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru. He smashed 44 runs towards Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Jaipur, 61 runs towards Mumbai Indians (MI) in Mumbai, and 62 runs towards Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) in Bengaluru.
Expectations have been sky-high from Faf du Plessis when Royal Challengers Bengaluru have been chasing down a humongous whole towards the Knight Riders and the RCB skipper was disappointing with the bat. He managed to attain simply 7 runs off 7 balls with one 4 earlier than getting dismissed by Varun Chakravarthy.
On the primary ball of the 4th over, the KKR thriller spinner bowled a floated supply on full-length and Faf du Plessis tried to smash the ball for a 4 by hitting it down the bottom. Venkatesh Iyer, who was on the mid-on moved rapidly to his left and dived to tug off a completely gorgeous catch.
Watch: Venkatesh Iyer Takes Stunner To Dismiss Faf du Plessis
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Earlier, batting first, Kolkata Knight Riders posted 222/6 on the board driving on the again of good batting performances from Phil Salt, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku, and Ramandeep Singh. This was the joint highest whole of Kolkata Knight Riders towards Royal Challengers Bengaluru, equalling their 222/3 within the inaugural IPL match in 2008.
For Royal Challengers Bengaluru, Yash Dayal, who was fairly costly, and Cameron Inexperienced bagged two wickets every whereas Mohammed Siraj and Lockie Ferguson bagged one wicket every within the match.
Talking throughout the mid-innings break, Ramandeep Singh who slammed 24 runs off 9 balls stated that he simply wished to smash the ball when he got here to bat. Ramandeep Singh gave all of the credit score to the KKR coach Abhishek Nayar for serving to the gamers put together for the matches.
“I simply wished to whack the ball, fortunately it was my day. Gradual bumpers weren’t straightforward to hit, that is what we’ll do. 222 is a extremely good rating on this pitch, tempo on the ball is simple to hit. All credit score to Abhishek Nayar, he prepares us this manner and all our internet periods resembles a match. We have a legend within the facet in Narine and we’ll wish to watch the legend on present at present.”
In the meantime, Royal Challengers Bengaluru can be wanting ahead to successful the match towards the Kolkata Knight Riders within the reverse fixture after shedding towards them within the earlier match. On March 29, 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders thumped the Royal Challengers Bengaluru by 7 wickets with 19 balls remaining in Bengaluru.
