Royal Challengers Bengaluru were going great guns when Phil Salt was in the middle. The team was 61 in 3.5 overs, but his mix-up with Virat Kohli ended his innings. He scored 37 runs off 17 balls, with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. The franchise couldn’t recover from the loss and kept losing wickets at regular intervals. The hosts managed 163/7 in 20 overs.
Virat Kohli (22), Devdutt Padikkal (1), Rajat Patidar (25), Liam Livingstone (4), Jitesh Sharma (3) and Krunal Pandya (18) went back one after another. Tim David played another aggressive knock, accumulating an unbeaten 37 runs off 20 balls, packed with 2 fours and 4 sixes. Vipraj Nigam and Kuldeep Yadav were the pick of the bowlers, dismissing two batters each. Mukesh Kumar and Mohit Sharma took 1 wicket each.
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