Delhi Capitals decimated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 59 runs at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai yesterday and clinched their fourth win of the tournament.
Earlier Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and opted to bowl first. Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw gave a good start of 68 runs. Mohammad Siraj broke this stand by removing Shaw. In the coming overs Dhawan and Iyer also got out and at 90/3 in the 12th over the match was balanced but Marcus Stoinis counter attacked and his 53* runs off 26 balls knock helped Delhi to post a big total of 196/4 on the board.
In reply, Royal Challengers Bangalore had a poor start and lost openers Devdutt Padikkal and Aaron Finch cheaply. Inform AB de Villiers too could manage only 9 runs and at 43/3 Bangalore was in deep trouble and after that, they never recovered and kept losing wickets on regular intervals and eventually finished on 137/9. For Delhi Capitals Rabada took 4 wickets.
All the major stats and facts from the 19th match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals in Dubai :
3 - This is Delhi Capitals' third consecutive win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in Indian Premier League.
10 - Kagiso Rabada has taken 10 wickets at an average of 7.60 in just 3 matches in the Indian Premier League.
Kagiso Rabada against RCB in IPL -
4/21 at Bangalore, 2019
2/31 at Delhi, 2019
4/24 at Dubai, 2020
43 - Kagiso Rabada has taken 43 wickets for Delhi Capitals in IPL - the joint third-most by any bowler.
Most wickets for DC in IPL -
100 - Amit Mishra
45 - Morne Morkel
43 - Kagiso Rabada / Umesh Yadav
41 - Chris Morris
40 - S Nadeem
59 - Runs win is the third biggest win for Delhi Capitals in terms of runs in the Indian Premier League.
Biggest wins for DC in IPL (By runs) -
97 vs RPSG at Pune, 2017
67 vs RR at Delhi, 2010
59 vs RCB at Dubai, 2020
55 vs KKR at Delhi, 2018
51 vs KXIP at Delhi, 2017
9000 - Virat Kohli when on 10, became the first Indian and overall seventh player to score 9000 runs in T20 cricket. He has scored 9033 runs in 286 matches so far.
Players to score 9000 or more runs in T20 cricket -
13296 - Chris Gayle
10370 - Kieron Pollard
9926 - Shoaib Malik
9922 - Brendon McCullum
9451 - David Warner
9161 - Aaron Finch
9033 - Virat Kohli
Most runs in T20 cricket (By Indians) -
9033 - Virat Kohli
8818 - Rohit Sharma
8392 - Suresh Raina
7421 - Shikhar Dhawan
6712 - MS Dhoni
