IPL 2017

RCB take wooden spoon, but end season with win

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Virat Kohli scored a breezy 58 to guide RCB to a match-winning total.
Virat Kohli scored a breezy 58 to guide RCB to a match-winning total. © AFP

Royal Challengers Bangalore ended their Indian Premier League campaign on a positive note, defending 162 successfully at the Feroz Shah Kotla on Sunday (May 14), to bring the league stage of the tenth edition to a close. Delhi Daredevils' middle order kept them in the hunt but a mini-collapse at the end had them bowled out for 151, handing RCB a 10-run win, only their third win this season.

Semblance of the old

The side that turned up today had some semblance of the RCB seen over the years. Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle were once again among the runs. Vishnu Vinod was bowled by Pat Cummins in the fifth over, but in that 30-run stand, he had just 3 as Gayle did bulk of the scoring albeit in a slow start. The veteran duo of Kohli and Gayle then came together and added 66 for the second wicket in 8.2 overs, giving RCB the platform to let loose towards the end. Both took their time to settle in, but Kohli seemed in sublime touch, with some outrageous shots on display. Especially the shot off Corey Anderson that cleared the ropes. All Kohli did was present the full face of the bat with a forward push. It was timed so beautifully that it flew over the long off fence.

Strategic break worked for Delhi

Gayle started strongly but got caught in a bit of a rut in the middle with boundaries eluding him. He muscled a six over cow corner as he neared a half-century, but the strategic time-out did the trick for Delhi as the burly West Indian fell first ball after resumption of play. Kohli and Gayle would have wanted to get a move on at that juncture of the 14th over, but it wasn't to be as the latter fell for 48.

Difference between 160 and 180?

Kohli got to his fifty two overs later, but not before running out Travis Head with a call for a second. Zaheer Khan then dropped a return catch off Kohli on 52 and the batsman, almost as if to rub salt on Zaheer's wounds, smacked him for six the next ball. However, failing to middle the next ball just as well, Kohli picked out long off and was dismissed for 58.

Vital runs at the end despite no power-hitters

Sachin Baby, Pawan Negi and Kedar Jadhav's knocks of 12, 13* and 12 respectively, don't seem very substantial at first-look. When put in context of the game, however, they were vital. Given that RCB had lost two of their set batsmen at a time when a switch in gears was required, they stood up and provided the boundaries with the team being able to push their total past the 160-run mark, adding as many as 49 off the last four overs; that, despite losing their power-hitters. Negi's three successive boundaries in the last over proved to be the difference between the sides at the end.

The taste of the big stage

Avesh Khan was making his Twenty20 debut. It was his first match of the IPL and the pacer was handed the ball to start proceedings. That he had genuine pace, was evident from the first ball. Off the second, he cramped Sanju Samson for room, who spliced a short ball into the hands of Kohli at mid on, attempting the pull. He finished his first over on T20 debut conceding just two runs and a wicket. In his next two overs, he conceded just the one boundary. His figures took a hit after he conceded 14 runs off his last over, the penultimate of the innings, still finishing with impressive returns of 1 for 23.

Staying in the chase

The early wicket left Karun Nair and Shreyas Iyer with the job of rebuilding, which they did effectively and kept Delhi in the hunt. As long as Rishabh Pant was in the middle, Delhi stood a very good chance of pulling off a win, despite the mounting required run rate. Pant, however, was running out of partners as wickets tumbled at regular intervals post the 15th over. It all started with Harshal Patel dealing Delhi a double blow in the 12th over, accounting for Iyer and Marlon Samuels off successive deliveries. But Pant carried on unperturbed until he was bowled by Patel eventually for a 34-ball 45.

What worked for RCB?

Despite the mounting run-rate, the chase could have been successfully carried out had Delhi managed to keep wickets in hand. Mohammed Shami blazed away to a 9-ball 21, but there was too much left to do as RCB pulled things back rather effectively with their slower bowlers in operation. Pawan Negi had excellent returns of 3 for 10 in two overs, while Travis Head picked up two wickets in three overs.

Where they finished

RCB finished with seven points and with the wooden spoon, while Delhi ended their season, sixth on the points table having accrued 12 points

Brief scores: Royal Challengers Bangalore 161/6 in 20 overs (Chris Gayle 48, Virat Kohli 58; Pat Cummins 2-21) beat Delhi Daredevils 151 in 20 overs (Shreyas Iyer 32, Rishabh Pant 45; Harshal Patel 3-43, Pawan Negi 3-10) by 10 runs.

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