RCB VS DC Highlights

Patidar, bowlers keep RCB in playoffs contention

RCB stay alive!

This is the virat team 🦸

RCB have come out with a proper plan against the hard-hitting DC batters. For starters, they have bowled just the two overs of spin - one each from Swapnil and Karn. And since the start of the seventh over, the fast bowlers have consciously tried to hit hard lengths to deny DC batters the room to swing their bat.

Which is why Hope could not resist going after a full toss from Ferguson. Turns out it was a slower one and he only toe-ended it towards deep midwicket. And then Green managed to nail a direct hit at the bowler's end after a miscommunication between Axar and Stubbs.

Their 11 balls on a length, between the seventh and the 11th over, went for just 10.

DC are 90 for 6 after 11, need 98 more

Dayal capped off his impressive outing by knocking Kuldeep over as RCB brought up their fifth win on the trot to stay in contention of a playoffs spot. Dayal finished with three wickets while Lockie Ferguson chipped in with a couple. DC could never recover from their setback in the powerplay, where they lost four wickets.

Their bowlers had done well to restrict RCB to under 200 after a 88-run stand between Patidar and Jacks. But RCB never let them get a sniff with an inspired bowling display.

The result means both RCB and DC are on 12 points but the hosts leapfrogged the tourists on the points table, thanks to a positive net run rate.