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

11:40 PM

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.  

 

11:39 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Match Summary

 

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. 

 

11:24 PM

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

11:22 PM

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

11:13 PM

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

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Rashid gets du Plessis

 

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 

 

10:48 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Getting quick runs is tough

 

Yash Dayal is into the attack

 

Ball 1 Played on the up and to the backward point for a single by Kohli 

 

Ball 2 Cracking drive, but straight to short extra cover for a no runs 

 

Ball 3 Not being able to get it away so it would just be a single for du Plessis 

 

Ball 4 Four!! It was definitely not a good shot by Kohli as he anted to hit in inside out, but only managed to get an edge and over short third and backward point for a four 

 

Ball 5 Driven on the up for a single by Kohli down the ground 

 

Ball 6 Getting quick runs is getting hard for RCB batters who are getting tired and the ball is gripping too 

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 113-0 after 14 overs

 

10:39 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: 7000 runs up for Kohli as RCB batter

 

Sai Kishore is into the attack

 

Ball 1 Dot ball as Kohli can’t get away Sai 

 

Ball 2 And that would be two dots in a row now 

 

Ball 3 Make it three as Kohli plays it short cover 

 

Ball 4 Full toss driven to wide long-off for a single 

 

Ball 5 du Plessis works it away on the on-side for a single 

 

Ball 6 And now Kohli takes a single as well to end the over and bring about the Time Out as well. 

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 105-0 after 13 overs

 

10:35 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Ferguson is also taken for a four

 

Ferguson is into the attack

 

Ball 1 Lockie Ferguson is introduced into the attack for the first time and is hit down the ground for a single 

 

Ball 2 That would be two runs as energy-sapping running keeps on going for the RCB openers 

 

Ball 3 Played to deep backward square for a single 

 

Ball 4 Driven to sweeper cover for a single 

 

Ball 5 Short and pulled away by du Plessis for a four to deep mid-wicket 

 

Ball 6 A dot ball will end the over here 

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 102-0 after 12 overs

 

10:31 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: 6 from the Sai Kishore over

 

Sai Kishore is into the attack

 

Ball 1 Single off the first ball fo Sai’s third over 

 

Ball 2 Dot ball as Kohli plays it back to the bowler

 

Ball 3 once again, Kohli is drawn forward by the flight and asked to drive and he drives it for a single past the bowler 

 

Ball 4 Once again a single as du Plessis digs out almost a yorker for a single 

 

Ball 5 Very quick single taken by Kohli and had the fiddler picked it cleanly and hit the stumps, it would have been curtains for du Plessis

 

Ball 6 Very good running again as du Plessis hits wide off long-off and takes two runs 

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 93-0 after 11 overs

 

10:27 PM

RCB vs GT Live Updates: Fifty up for Kohli

 

Rashid Khan is into the attack

 

Ball 1 Goes down the ground and gets a six and that would mean a fifty and aggressive fifty from Kohli this IPL. It comes off just 33 balls. 

 

Ball 2 Single past mid-on 

 

Ball 3 And du Plessis certainly wants Kohli on strike as he also takes asingle only 

 

Ball 4 Googly and Kohli works it away on the on-side for a single 

 

Ball 5 Dot ball as du Plessis is still finding it tough to find the gaps 

 

Ball 6 Single down the ground over the bowler’s head would mean a single for the captain to end the over

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Live Score 87-0 after 10 overs