Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) defeated Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) within the thirty first match of IPL 2022 performed on Tuesday at DY Patil Sports Academy on the idea of the sensible batting of captain Faf du Plessis (93) after which Josh Hazlewood’s 4 wickets. defeated by runs.

Batting first, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) scored 181 runs for the lack of 6 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Lucknow workforce may rating solely 163 runs in 20 overs for the lack of 8 wickets. Krunal Pandya scored 42 runs for LSG. At the identical time, Josh Hazlewood took 4 wickets for 25 runs and Harshal Patel took 2 wickets for RCB.

Earlier, electing to bat after dropping the toss, Bangalore had a poor begin as they misplaced the wickets of Anuj Rawat (4) and Virat Kohli (0) within the very first over of the match. After this, Glenn Maxwell supported captain Faf du Plessis and made some good pictures, however earlier than the top of the powerplay, Maxwell (23) additionally returned to the pavilion, leaving the workforce 47 runs for the lack of three wickets.

Suyash Prabhudesai (10), who got here at quantity 5, was caught by Pandya on the ball of the holder. At the identical time, Shahbaz Ahmed together with captain du Plessis took the workforce’s rating to 100 runs for the lack of 4 wickets in 12 overs. After this, each of them made good pictures within the center overs. Captain du Plessis accomplished his fifty in 40 balls. But within the sixteenth over, Shahbaz (26) got here off Holder’s ball, which additionally ended the partnership of 70 runs in 48 balls between him and captain du Plessis.

Dinesh Karthik, who got here to bat at quantity seven, supported captain du Plessis. Meanwhile, skipper du Plessis hit a number of boundaries, taking the workforce’s rating to 164 for 5 after 18 overs. In the nineteenth over, Karthik took 13 runs off Avesh Khan’s balls for a six. At the identical time, solely 4 runs have been dismissed by the captain Du Plessis (93 runs in 64 balls with the assistance of 11 fours and two sixes) on the ball of the twentieth over holder, resulting from which Bangalore scored 181 runs for the lack of 6 wickets in 20 overs.

(With ians inputs)