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Bengaluru, 18 April. On Saturday, there was an exciting struggle between the ball and the bat till the last over at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, in which Tristan Stubbs (60 not out, 47 balls, one six, four fours) and David Miller, famous in the role of match finisher (22 runs not out, 10 balls, two sixes, one four), helped Delhi Capitals with one ball to spare against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). (DC) a thrilling six-wicket victory.

RCB’s innings reached 175 runs with Phil Salt’s fifty.

The RCB team, which lost the coin toss to the home supporters, despite opener Phil Salt’s aggressive half-century (63 runs, 38 balls, three sixes, four fours), could reach 175 runs for eight wickets in front of the toughness of the opposition bowlers including Lungi Ngidi (2-39), Akshar Patel (2-18) and Kuldeep Yadav (2-32).

After half-centuries of Rahul and Stubbs, Miller made a decisive attack.

In retaliation, after a poor start of 3-18 in front of senior paceman Bhuvneshwar Kumar (3-26), KL Rahul (57 runs, 34 balls, two sixes, six fours), who celebrated his 34th birthday today, along with ‘Player of the Match’ Stubbs got the car back on track. Then Stubbs got the support of captain Akshar Patel (26 runs, 29 balls, three fours) and finally Miller gave the floor to the Capitals with a decisive strike, which scored 179 runs for four wickets in 19.5 overs.

In the last over, Miller hit the winning four after two consecutive sixes.

Actually, the guests needed 25 runs in the last two overs. In the 19th over, Stubbs and Miller took 10 runs including a four off Rasikh Salam. Now 15 runs were needed from the last six balls. In this last over of Romario Shepherd, a leg bye and a single came on the first two balls. But Miller hit the third and fourth balls for sixes and hit the winning four on the fifth ball.

on the basis of third victory Capitals overtake GT to fourth place

Delhi Capitals (six points), who had suffered defeats against Gujarat Titans (GT) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) respectively in the last two matches, have overtaken the Titans and placed themselves at the fourth position in the points table with their third win in five matches. This was the second defeat in six matches for RCB (eight points), who faced defeat after two consecutive wins. At present, he is in second place between Punjab Kings (nine points) and Rajasthan Royals (eight points).

Partnership of 69 runs between Rahul and Stubbs

If we look at the batting of Capitals, after the return of Pathum Nissanka (one run), Karun Nair (five runs) and Sameer Rizvi (two runs) in the first two overs of Bhuvneshwar, Rahul made a partnership of 69 runs in 44 balls with Stubbs. Krunal Pandya (1-24) returned Rahul in the 11th over.

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After this Stubbs made an unbroken partnership of 47 runs in 35 balls with captain Akshar Patel. However, Akshar retired hurt in the 16th over due to injury. Well, David Miller along with Stubbs completed the formalities of victory by scoring 45 runs in 24 balls.

Half century partnership between Phil Salt and Virat Kohli

Before this, apart from Phil Salt, other bowlers including Angidi, Patel and Kuldeep did not allow the other batsmen to go very far in the RCB innings. Salt made a partnership of 52 runs on 31 balls with Virat Kohli (19 runs, 13 balls, three fours) for the first wicket and 47 runs on 29 balls with Devdutt Padikkal (18 runs, 13 balls, one six, one four) for the second wicket. But after his dismissal at 105 in the 11th over, no batsman other than Tim David (26 runs, 17 balls, one six, three fours) could show pace. RCB scored only 29 runs losing four wickets in the last five overs.

sunday matches : : Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals (Kolkata, 3.30 PM), Punjab Kings vs Lucknow Super Giants (New Chandigarh, 7.30 PM).