Just three days after watching AB de Villiers score an undefeated 73 of 33 while the rest of the hitters from both teams couldn’t score as freely, the Royal Challengers Bangalore pushed their best hitters to No. 6 on the same ground against the Kings XI. Punjab and later suffered a loss of eight plots. Captain Virat Kohli described it as one of those decisions that didn’t go well, while explaining that they wanted to send left-handed hitters against Kings XI’s leg shooters. However, de Villiers was fired for 2 of five deliveries when he went on to hit 127 for 4. It had been six years since De Villiers hit so low in the IPL.
“We had a chat,” Kohli explained at the presentation, “There was a message from outside about the left-right hand. [combination] and we had a discussion about it and we wanted to move on because they had two leggies (Ravi Bishnoi and M Ashwin) and that could have kept them out of the game. “
So Washington Sundar was promoted to No. 4 and Shivam Dube was sent to No. 5. His job was to try to attack as soon as they had their eyes on. But the two could only make 36 runs on 33 balls. when the Kings XI took on the Royal Challengers accountant with an accountant of their own: Glenn Maxwell. The pitching in Sharjah was slow and excellent as there was no room, or pace, for the Royal Challengers’ pinch hitters to work, and he finished 4-0-28-0.
“That’s the idea,” Kohli said of Sundar and Dube batting ahead of De Villiers. “Look and start hitting, but I think they did decently well. The field didn’t allow us to hit those big shots and we couldn’t push them. Sometimes you have to make those decisions and they don’t.” t quit “.
In the end, de Villiers, who could have come in in the seventh or eleventh over innings, ended up marking his guard only at 17 before being fired while attempting to attack Mohammed Shami that ended in a catch in extra coverage.
“Look, sometimes the decisions you make don’t go wrong,” Kohli said. “This was one of those nights. But look, we’re pretty happy with the decisions we made, especially in the batting innings, but they just didn’t come out. Having said that, I think over 170 was a decent score on that court. If we had hit decent areas on the court, then we would have been in the game a lot longer than we were. “
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