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Royal Challengers Bangalore 131/7, 20 overs (De Villiers 57, Finch 38, Holder 3/25, Natarajan 2/33)
Sunrisers Hyderabad 132/4, 19.4 overs (Williamson 50 *, Holder 24 *, Siraj 2/26)
Hyderabad won by 8 wickets
One came as a “replacement”, then became one of the best players on the team. Another is in the form of “stable” at any known time. In the low-scoring match in the tie, it all came down to West Indies and New Zealand captains Jason Holder and Kane Williamson. The two of them did not disappoint their franchise, they met their caste once more. Holder’s superb bowling helped keep Bangalore at 131, then Williamson’s fifty unbeaten on 44 balls with one ball to spare, Hyderabad crossed the target, securing Holder’s two straight fours. They ‘eliminated’ Bangalore in the tie and advanced to the final, now they are expecting Delhi to lose to Mumbai in the second tie.
The second game of the play-off had quite different terrains in different places than on the first day. The main role of the spinners here was to play hard by keeping the line straight, without allowing the front hitter to get aggressive. And pacemakers were playing the leading role of ‘Hantarak’. Rashid Khan remained without land, but played economically. Holder and Natarajan held Bangalore together, taking land at crucial moments. After that, Adam Jampa and Yuzhvendra Chehel gave Bangalore hope in bowling, but Navdeep Saini couldn’t do what Mohammad Siraj did in the beginning. However, at the end of the game, Kohli said another reality: “Why does the image of the game change when Williamson is at the window!”
When Williamson came on the scene, Hyderabad lost the second wicket in the power play, David Warner had to come back behind on the close call from the TV referee. The TV referee decided that Siraj covered him with a glove, after the Bangalore review went to him, in which Warner’s discontent was evident. At the beginning, Srivastava Goswami, who replaced Riddhiman Saha in this match, was aged by this Siraj ball. After that, Manish Pandey went to cut the jumper and Priyam Garg was caught by the jumper while trying to lift Chehel up. In Hyderabad’s case, the memory of that match against Punjab was coming back, when they were at full throttle for 114 runs from 3 wickets for 100 runs in 128 overs.
Of course, the required running speed wasn’t an issue then, but in practice, the pressure was to play in the first knockout match of the tournament. Williamson demonstrated once again why this pressure is different from many others. I have holder with. Marlene Williamson hit the last ball of the match and Chehel made a single ball at the leg-lock line throughout the spell.
Chehel and Jampa together gave only 36 runs in 8 overs and took 2 wickets. Then it was the pacemaker’s turn, but on the 18th, Kohli brought in Shivam Dubey, who hadn’t played before. After that finish, Williamson-Holder did not drop the target, hitting one-for-four on overs by Navdeep Saini and Siraj. Holder needed 9 in the last over, 1 of the first two balls, but then Holder did not make the mistake of taking the two balls off Saini’s stump, two deliveries that were quite inconsistent with the setup of the field.
Bangalore’s hitting didn’t match Abu Dhabi’s ground, except for an AB from Villiers. They came down with a series of changes, Kohli appeared in the opening. In the second over of innings, he returned gloved as he came out on the side of the starter’s leg, and in the next over, Devdut Paddikal caught. Bangalore scored 32 runs for 2 wickets in the powerplay, hitting just 3 fours. Aaron Finch and de Villiers gave it a go, Finch hitting 32 of 30 balls before being caught by Shahbaz Nadeem. Nadeem made a no-ball in that finale, but his spin as a spinner isn’t the biggest dramatic event of that finale. Moin Ali, who was left out on the free kick, made a golden call.
Officially, all the pressure was on De Villiers. He threw 57 of 43 balls before being thrown by Natarajan’s great yorker in the 18th, Saini and Siraj hitting two fours in the last to finish off 130 Perulo Bangalore. Throughout the tournament, Bangalore’s over-reliance on Kohli and Villiers was evident, and this day was no exception. The scoreboard after losing four matches in a row earlier, but Kohli struggled for quite some time.
However, with Williamson, the image of the game changes. There was a starting factor in the game.
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