Rajasthan deserved to win; we got out of jail: Katich
October 17, 2020 by Cricbuzz Staff
RCB has now won six games in the tournament.
It was the Rajasthan Royals game to win. It took Royal Challengers Bangalore 35 to win the last two overs with AB de Villiers and Gurkeerat Mann in the fold. De Villiers had faced 16 balls for his 28 until that point when Steve Smith’s tact of bringing Jaydev Unadkat for the penultimate ahead of Jofra Archer for his left-handed cutters failed and how with as many as 25 runs taken in the over. It left Archer with just 10 to defend in the final.
“In hindsight, knowing the result, absolutely! (Jofra should have thrown the 19),” Smith said. “It was tough … JD throws his cutters into the wicket and pins normally to the limit up to a long limit next to the leg. It wasn’t a terrible finish, it was a serious hitting to be honest. Too many guys that can hit the ball the way AB did under pressure to a large side and clear the fence quite easily. “
De Villiers had entered the middle when RCB was 102/2 after Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal were unable to advance, chasing 178. Shreyas Gopal was brought in straight out of the box, the same confrontation against legs that RCB wanted to deny. against KXIP. He said goodbye to Gopal in search of silence, which was the last, and then razed an Archer leg cutter. Unadkat at that stage had only conceded 12 runs in his two overs with RCB needing 54 of 24. That over was only for 9, but it was the first three balls of his final where the game took a turn when De Villiers broke three successive sixes.
“It’s pretty hard to do anything when AB is in that mood,” Smith said. “He’s a clean striker on the ball. He’s very innovative, so he’ll hit you all over the ground like we’ve seen for a long period of time, so when he gets going you have to do things like double bluff every now and then. when and try to minimize the damage and try to get him out as well. If he stays there, he’s obviously dangerous for a long period of time. He played a pretty amazing tackle tonight and unfortunately we were on the other end. “
A slower diverter was smoked over midwicket, another slower pitch was dispatched for a long time, and a short ball was thrown over a deep square backward in what was a tremendous hit. Gurkeerat then sent a poor ball too wide for a limit when 25 runs came out, and the game was RCB’s to lose.
“He’s a phenomenon, isn’t he? That’s why he’s the best of all time,” RCB head coach Simon Katich said after the game. “What we saw today was another masterclass. We’ve already seen several of them in this tournament. There was one against Mumbai that was magnificent and then the other day he was 77 of 33, so we certainly made sure he hit his right spot today. . We learned from our mistake. It was wonderful and the main reason we won the game today. It was magnificent. Both ABD and G Mann kept their nerves and hit the limits at the right time. Credit to them. He had a series of performances. crucial today, but AB beat us the game. Rajasthan deserved to win that game today, we really got out of jail. “
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