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IPL 2022 RCB vs GT Highlights: Kohli keeps Bangalore alive in Playoff race

RCB vs GT Highlights: Virat Kohli finally performed as he got his team Royal Challengers Bangalore over the line by eight wickets. He scored 73 off 54 balls to chase down 169 against Gujarat Titans

RCB team heading to the pitch during a match in IPL 2022. Photo: Sportzpics for IPL

RCB vs GT Highlights

Virat Kohli finally performed when it mattered as he got his team Royal Challengers Bangalore over the line by eight wickets. He scored 73 off 54 balls to chase down 169 against Gujarat Titans, the table toppers. With this win, the Bangalore side now stay alive in the race to the Playoffs and would pray that Mumbai Indians beat Delhi Capitals or Rajasthan lose big time to Chennai Super Kings for them to be able to finish either three or four in the Points Table.

Earlier in the evening after winning the toss and deciding to bat first, Gujarat Titans, riding on the back of its skipper Hardik Pandya’s 62*, David Miller’s 35 and Rashid Khan’s 6 ball 19 managed to reach 168-5 in their 20 overs. Purple cap holder Wanindu Hasaranag was the pick of the bowlers for RCB with his 1-25 in four overs.

RCB vs GT Player of the Match: Virat Kohli

Virat Kohli who returned back to his batting form by making 73 off 54 balls at a strike rate of 135 was awarded the Player of the Match. He got to his fifty in just 33 balls and added a crucial 115 for the first wicket alongside RCB skipper Faf du Plessis. In total, Kohli hit eight fours and two sixes.

IPL 2022 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Gujarat Titans Toss: Hardik wins toss, Gujarat Titans bat first

Gujarat Titans skipper Hardik Pandya won the toss and decided that his team will bat first against Faf du Plessis’ Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai. Even du Plessis wanted to bat first.

Both the teams made one change each as Lockie Ferguson came in for Alzarri Joseph for the Titans while Siddharth Kaul will make his RCB debut in place of Mohammed Siraj tonight.

RCB Playing 11

Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Rajat Patidar, Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Shahbaz Ahmed, Harshal Patel, Wanindu Hasaranga, Josh Hazlewood, Siddarth Kaul, .

GT Playing 11

Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Shubman Gill, Matthew Wade, Hardik Pandya, David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Rashid Khan, Sai Kishore, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Shami

RCB vs GT Highlights: Catch all the action from the IPL 2022 clash between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans here

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RCB vs GT Player of the Match: Virat Kohli

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RCB vs GT Live Updates: Match Summary

11:24 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Kohli and Maxwell, two heroes with the bat for RCB

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RCB vs GT Live Updates: Big win for RCB, beat table-toppers Gujarat by 8 wickets

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RCB vs GT Live Updates: RCB stay alive with the win

Lockie Ferguson is into the attack

Ball 1 Four!! Full and fast from Ferguson and hit down the ground straight as an arrow by Maxwell for a four to start the over

Ball 2 Short this time and Maxwell fails to connect

Ball 3 Four!! Gets the right connection on this one as he gets the short ball over the short third-man for a four

Ball 4 Four!! Hit high on the bat but it doesn’t matter as Maxwell was always going for the shot and the ball goes behind the keeper for a four to finish the game for the RCB as they win by 8 wickets with eight balls to spare and stay alive in the tournament till the Mumbai Indians vs Delhi Capitals encounter at least

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 170-2 after 18.4 overs

11:08 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: RCB need only 11 more runs to win

Yash Dayal is into the attack

Ball 1 Two runs taken off the very first ball of Yash Dayal’s over

Ball 2 Goes for the reverse hit once again, but Maxwell fails to connect

Ball 3 That would be called a wide

Ball 3 Four!! Too wide outside off and Maxwell chases it and hits iot over covers for a four

Ball 4 And now a single is taken on the on-side as the target gets smaller by each passing ball for RCB

Ball 5 Cut away for a single to sweeper cover by Karthik

Ball 6 Maxwell goes towards the leg side and gets a single to end the over

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 158-2 after 18 overs

11:03 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Kohli dismissed by Rashid

Rashid Khan is into the attack

Ball 1 Goes for the big shot does Maxwell and he was going across the line as well, gets an inside edge and a single

Ball 2 Six!! Hit down the ground and over the bowler’s head, straight on teh camera down the ground for a six

Ball 3 Dot ball as Kohli plays it on the on-side

Ball 4 Wicket!! Kohli goes down the ground and Rashid sees him coming, slows down the speed of the ball, bowls a googly as well and beats Kohli in pace and flight and gets him stumped by Wade for 73 off 54 balls.

Ball 5 Karthik will get off the mark with a single here as he plays the googly on the on-side

Ball 6 A single off the last ball means Maxwell will keep the strike with himself

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 148-2 after 17 overs

10:58 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Maxwell goes bang bang

Hardik Pandya is into the attack

Ball 1 Kohli takes a single off the every first ball

Ball 2 Six!! Hit high and just over the long-off fielder for a six

Ball 3 Four!! That would be the first time that someone has hit the Tata Punch car this season and Maxwell now has deposited Rs 5 Lakh for cponservation of the Kaziranga from the coffers of Tata

Ball 4 Dot ball as this time he is unable to get the bat to meet the ball

Ball 5 Six!! Reverse hit, switch hit, you may call it whatever you want, but this is a brilliant short over third-man by a right-handed batter who went left-handed on this one

Ball 6 A single will end this over as well.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 139-1 after 16 overs

10:53 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Maxwell survives courtesy of bails

Rashid Khan is into the attack

Ball 1 Hit hard bit straight to Pandya at short extra for a single

Ball 2 Almost an edge there. But goes to short third-man and Kohli takes a single

Ball 3 Wicket!! The pressure of getting quick runs does the trick here as du Plessis tries to go on-side on a leg break and a leading-edge is caught easily near covers by Hardik Pandya. RCB are now one down for 115 in the 15th over

Ball 4 Wicket!! That would have been a wicket had the bails come off because the zinger lights did light up but the bails didn’t com off and now it has been given four off byes

Ball 5 That would be single to the short leg by Maxwell

Ball 6 And Kohli will also take a single to covers

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 121-1 after 15 overs

10:50 PM