While du Plessis showed off his six hitting prowess, hitting seven sixes in his whirlwind knock, Virat Kohli Also played an innings of 41 not out in 29 balls. Dinesh Karthik After being invited to bat, RCB played a mammoth innings of 205 for 2 and played an unbeaten innings of 32 runs.
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Chasing the target was tough but not impossible and Punjab made a sensational effort to overhaul the target, scoring 208 for 5 with full overs remaining.
While Mayank Agarwal (32 runs in 24) and Shikhar Dhawan (43 for 29) added 71 runs for the first wicket to lay the foundation for the chase. Bhanuka Rajapakse (43 off 22) also shone on his IPL debut but Punjab suffered a collapse and were bowled out for 156 for 5.
Although, Shahrukh Khan (24 not out off 20 balls) and Odeon Smith (25 not out from 8 balls) Then finally joined hands to get the job done. The duo put on an unbroken 52-run partnership for the sixth wicket to take Punjab home.
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Smith scored 25 runs in the 18th over with three sixes and a four off Mohammad Siraj and brought the equation to 11 in the last two overs.
Shah Rukh, who hit a four and two sixes, ended the game with a boundary as Mayank Agarwal began his captaincy stint with a win.
Earlier, RCB skipper du Plessis and Kohli put on 118 runs for the second wicket after laying the foundation with 50 runs from Purva and Anuj Rawat (21).
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RCB scored 11 ‘extra’ runs in the second over from Arshdeep Singh. Du Plessis got his first boundary in the third while Rawat hit his first maximum in the same over as RCB raced to 23/0.
Rawat hit consecutive fours off Odeon Smith in the sixth over. But leg-spinner Rahul Chahar (1/22) clean bowled Rawat in the seventh over and got shot out.
Kohli came and took time to settle down.
After two successive runs, Kohli’s first maximum came in the 10th over as RCB scored 13 runs from him and, at 70/1, laid the foundation for a massive total.
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The former South Africa captain, who got ‘life’, made optimum use of it and then went ahead, as the carnage began from the 12th over when he hit a six off Liam Livingstone.
Du Plessis was brutal on Odeon Smith, whom he hit for a four and two consecutive sixes. He then hit two sixes off Harpreet Brar (0/38).
Kohli, who hit a boundary and two sixes, was also in his elements as he played shots of his own free will. However, he played a second role for du Plessis, when the South Africans were in full flow.
Du Plessis was out in the 18th over, but by then the damage was done.
Karthik played a quickfire knock of 32 runs in just 14 balls, in which he hit three sixes and as many fours, taking RCB past the 200-run mark.