RCB vs GT Highlights: Shubman Gill ton eliminates Bangalore; Gujarat face Chennai in Qualifier 1, Lucknow take on Mumbai in Eliminator | Cricket News
With the heartbreaking defeat, RCB’s journey on this yr’s competitors got here to an finish. With Mumbai Indians profitable the afternoon recreation, Faf du Plessis and co. wanted an outright win to qualify for the knockouts however Gill smashed his second consecutive century of the season, dashing the hosts’ hopes of qualifying for the playoffs.
RCB’s defeat additionally meant that Mumbai turned the fourth group to formally qualify for the knockouts.
Defending champions Gujarat Titans will now face Chennai Super Kings in Qualifier 1 on Tuesday whereas Mumbai can be up in opposition to Lucknow Super Giants the Eliminator on Wednesday.
After Kohli scored a 61-ball 101 in RCB’s 197 for 5, it appeared like the most effective effort on the day however Gill, who would be the torchbearer of Indian batting for the subsequent 10 years, confirmed that he’s higher than the most effective.
What Kohli did nicely, Gill did that higher as his unbeaten ton noticed Titans chase down the goal with elan. Like former India captain Kohli, this was Gill’s second successive hundred.
Gill slammed eights sixes and 5 fours.
Titans thus completed the league engagements with 20 factors whereas CSK ended second with 17 factors forward of Lucknow Tremendous Giants as a consequence of higher internet run-rate. Mumbai Indians, after their eight-wicket win in opposition to SRH, have been again within the final 4 with 16 factors.
With 34 wanted off three overs, Gill’s short-arm half-jab, half-pull off Mohammed Siraj was the killer blow, after which he hit him for an additional six to kill the competition as Kohli knocked his head in disbelief within the dugout.
As It Happened
RCB had their destiny in their very own fingers however poor execution whereas defending a wholesome complete turned their undoing.
Gill was excellent in his touch-play in opposition to pacers with that additional break up second to play his pictures whereas the regal footwork in opposition to leg-spinner Himanshu Sharma was a connoisseur’s delight.
The pick-up flick behind sq. off Michael Bracewell’s off-break was simply the shot of the evening, which was adopted by a monster hit over long-on.
Gill had an in a position ally in Vijay Shankar (53 off 35 balls). The duo added 123 runs for the second wicket as Gujarat Titans did not let the depth down for even one second.
The distinction between Gill’s match-winning knock and Kohli’s effort was the assist on the different finish. Whereas Kohli was left to do all of the heavy-lifting, Gill discovered assist on the different finish.
Additionally RCB had a number of weak hyperlinks of their bowling unit and Gill very cleverly focused the gradual bowlers with leg-spinner Himanshu and off-spinner Bracewell of their 4 overs freely giving 44 runs whereas 40 got here off inexperienced Vijaykumar Vyshak’s spell.
Earlier, Kohli was the lone ranger as his second successive century powered Royal Challengers Bangalore to a difficult complete after being put into bat first.
With the rain gods threatening to spoil RCB’s play-offs plans through the day, the match that began half an hour late noticed Kohli deliver again his 2016 avatar. He held all of the aces throughout his knock that had 13 fours and a six.
His innings was priceless within the context that not one of the different RCB batters may even attain 30 and similar to the nice previous days, ‘King Kohli’ set the narrative by enjoying with line, size and minds of the bowlers.
That is his seventh IPL hundred and he has now surpassed Chris Gayle because the batter with highest variety of match tons.
Contemplating that the Chinnaswamy Stadium is understood for batting belters, the ultimate complete, although aggressive sufficient, was actually 10-15 runs under par.
Kohli and skipper Faf Du Plessis (28) obtained off to a rollicking begin, with a flurry of boundaries in opposition to Mohammed Shami (1/39 in 4 overs) and the already distraught Yash Dayal within the powerplay.
They have been dispatched for as many as 9 boundaries which prompted Hardik Pandya to rapidly press his principal weapon, Rashid Khan (1/24 in 4 overs), into motion to stem the move of runs.
After conceding 62 runs in six powerplay overs, Rashid and his ‘left-arm mirror picture’ Noor Ahmed (2/39 in 4 overs) put the brakes on the scoring.
Noor dismissed du Plessis whereas he tried to hit him inside in a freakish method. The sting hit Wriddhiman Saha’s pads and lobbed up for Rahul Tewatia to finish a straightforward catch.
Glenn Maxwell began off nicely however Rashid bowled one which was quick and full and simply broke again sufficient to breach the defence of the batter as RCB abruptly discovered themselves in a rut.
It turned worse when Noor dragged Mahipal Lomror with one which turned the opposite method and Saha accomplished a leg-side stumping with the finesse that’s related to him for years now.
Michael Bracewell (26), nonetheless, took some stress off Kohli on the different finish with Mohit Sharma’s slower balls not working nicely on this event.
In his first three overs, he was hit for seven fours and it was Shami who obtained Bracewell earlier than he may inflict extra injury and Dayal had one thing lastly going for him when Dinesh Karthik’s woeful season obtained worse. However Kohli continued to struggle.
(With inputs from PTI)
