IPL24: RCB succumb to brute pace of Mayank Yadav as LSG get brilliant win

 

Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore lost at home.  Faf du Plessis's team lost by 28 runs to Lokesh Rahul's Lucknow Super Giants.  Batting first, Lucknow scored 181 runs for 5 wickets.  In reply, Bengaluru made 153 in 19.4 overs.  Mayank Yadav, who bowled at a speed of 155.8 km per hour on debut, brought RCB innings down.  He took 3 wickets by spending only 14 runs.  The speed of one of his balls that day was 156.7 km per hour.  Which is the fastest of the competition this time.

 Batting for a target of 182 to win, Bengaluru lost wickets at regular intervals.  The first three batters of the team scored some runs, but the later batters could not give the team confidence.  However, no one got big runs.  Kohli opened with 22 off 16 balls.  Hit 2 fours and 1 six before he was foxed by M Siddharth's left arm spin & guile .  The contribution of the other opener Du Plessis was 19 off 13 balls before he was run out by a direct hit .  Bangalore skipper hit 3 fours.  Rajat Patidar, who came down to number three, struggled a bit initially but later settled down .  From his bat came an innings of 29 runs off 21 balls.  He hit 2 fours and a six. 

However once Mayank Yadav got into the act , RCB started losing grip on the match .  Glenn Maxwell (0) was out to a hurried pull shot and then Cameron Green (9) was bowled by a searing fuller ball .

 Anuj Rawat (11), Dinesh Karthik (4) could note  a bolster the middle order.   Delhi's 21-year-old fast bowler Mayank laid the foundation for Bengaluru's innings by dismissing Patidar, Maxwell and Green.  Bengaluru could not handle this pressure in the end.

Mohipal Lomror the impact sub , made some effort at the end.  But the over could not bring down the target of runs per run.  Lomru's fight did not work.  He played an excellent attacking  innings of 33 runs off 13 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes.  None of Bengaluru's late batters could support Lomror.  Mohammad Siraj tried some aggressive batting.  Siraj scored 12 with the help of two sixes in 8 balls.  Naveen Ul Haq bowled well for Lucknow apart from Mayank.  He took 2 wickets for 25 runs.  1 wicket for 9 runs was taken  by Marcus Stoinis.  Manimaran Siddharth got 1 wicket with 21 runs.  Yash Thakur took 1 wicket for 38 runs.

 Earlier, Lucknow's batsmen could not take advantage of Bengaluru's 22 yards.  Rahul returned to the lead but did not get many runs.  Bengaluru captain Duplessis decided to field after winning the toss.  Rahul's team reached a fighting position thanks to a responsible innings by Quinton de Kock.  The South African wicketkeeper-batsman, who retired from international cricket, played an impeccable innings of 81 runs to open the innings and played several sparkling shots.  His innings of 56 balls has 8 fours and 5 sixes.  He kept one end of the wicket until almost the end of the team's innings.

Lucknow skipper Rahul contributed 20 off 14 balls to open.  He has 2 sixes in his innings.  Devdutt Paddikal (6) also failed to get going.  Stoinis scored 24 off 15 balls.  Hit 1 four and 2 sixes.   Nicholas Pooran played aggressive cricket with the bat at the end.  He remained unbeaten with a breathtaking  40 off 21 balls.  1 four and 5 sixes came from his bat.  It is his innings that challenged the opposition.  At the end he was joined at 22 yards by Krunal Pandya . Pooran hit 3 consecutive pulled sixes off Topley & 2 pulled sixes in the last over off Siraj . It was imperious hitting by one of the best in T20 Cricket 

 Glenn Maxwell is the most successful bowler in Bengaluru.  He took 2 wickets for 23 runs.  1 wicket for 24 runs by Yash Dayal.  Risi took 1 wicket at the cost of 39 runs.  Siraj's 1 wicket went for 47 runs.

Mayank Yadav for his brilliant & quick bowling was adjudged the man of the match