Virat Kohli Royal Challengers were pleased with Bangalore’s performance, terming it ‘perfect’ as they won the Indian Premier League by 54 runs over Mumbai Indians (IPL) on Sunday.
With the win, RCB moved up to third place with 12 points from 10 matches, as MI slipped to seventh place with eight points.
Harshal Patel’s hat-trick, Glenn Maxwell’s all-round performance and Kohli himself became the first Indian to cross 10,000 runs in T20 cricket. Maxwell took two important wickets with the bat of 56 runs.
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“Very happy, especially the way we won. It was a rough start when we lost Devdutt. He came in the second over and tried to get me out… KS came and played some great shots. He took the pressure off me. Maxi’s innings was unbelievable,” Kohli said in the post-match presentation.
“Tonight I don’t think no complaints, I’ll give it a 10 especially on the field. Maybe in batting, I’ll give it an 8, we should have got 20-25 more – really putting the opposition under pressure And after success they should not be allowed to come back.”
Kohli also praised hat-trick hero Harshal Patel, who dismissed MI’s Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard and Rahul Chahar in successive deliveries. He became the third RCB bowler after Praveen Kumar (vs Rajasthan Royals in 2010) and Samuel Badree (vs Mumbai Indians in 2017) to take an IPL hat-trick.
“I chatted with Abby and Maxi, they told me to go with your gut. my gut feeling said dc [Christian] A seasoned campaigner, he still has a slow bouncer who can be a wicket-taking option. Chahal was bowling really well but I felt there was not enough in the pitch to stop him at that time. they must have gone after chalo [talking about Hardik and Pollard]. I went with DC – he bowled an amazing over, shut the game down completely and what Harshal did from the other end was unbelievable.”
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