Kings XI Punjab (KXIP) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 8 wickets at Sharjah Cricket Stadium in Sharjah and registered their second win of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020, while RCB suffered their third loss.
Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and opted to bat first. Aaron Finch and Devdutt Padikkal gave a decent start of 38 runs in 4 overs. Arshdeep Singh removed Padikkal for 18 runs and later Murugan Ashwin dismissed Aaron Finch for 20 runs. Washington Sundar and Shivam Dube came in to bat before AB de Villiers and this decision of their's didn't work out well as the duo combinedly scored 36 runs in 33 balls.
In the middle overs, Virat Kohli too couldn't score quick runs and after 16 overs they're 127/4. In the 17th over Mohammad Shami dismissed de Villiers for just 2 runs and Kohli for 48 runs and Bangalore was in big trouble but the cameos from Chris Morris (25* in 8 balls) and Isuru Udana (10* in 5 balls) took RCB to 171/6 in 20 overs.
In reply, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal continued their good run and gave a good start of 78 runs in 8 overs. Agarwal got out off Chahal's bowling for 45 runs off just 25 balls. Chris Gayle who was playing his first match of this season joined KL Rahul at the crease and these two continued to score runs and both batsmen brought up their respective fifties. In the last over they needed 2 runs and eventually 1 run on the last ball which Nicholas Pooran scored by hitting a six.
All the major stats and facts from the 31st match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kings XI Punjab in Sharjah :
2 - Kings XI Punjab have won 2 of the 8 matches they played in this season so far and both wins came against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
7 - Nicholas Pooran became the 7th batsman to hit a six off the last ball of the match to win it in IPL.
Batsmen to hit six off the last match of the match to win it (in IPL) -
Rohit Sharma vs KKR, 2009
Rohit Sharma vs PWI, 2011
Ambati Rayudu vs KKR, 2011
Rohit Sharma vs Deccan Chargers, 2012
Saurabh Tiwari vs PWI, 2012
Dwayne Bravo vs KKR, 2012
MS Dhoni vs KXIP, 2016
Mitchell Santner vs RR, 2019
Nicholas Pooran vs RCB, 2020
172 - Runs chase is the third-highest successful run-chase in this season of Indian Premier League.
Highest successful run chases in IPL 2020 -
224 - RR vs KXIP at Sharjah
179 - CSK vs KXIP at Dubai
172 - KXIP vs RCB at Sharjah
193 - KL Rahul scored 193 runs across two innings against Royal Challengers Bangalore in this IPL season without getting out.
KL Rahul against RCB in IPL 2020 -
132* (69) at Dubai
61* (49) at Sharjah
200 - It was Virat Kohli's 200th match for Royal Challengers Bangalore in T20 cricket (IPL + CLT20) - the first player to play 200 matches for a team in T20 cricket.
Virat Kohli for RCB in T20 cricket -
Matches - 200
Innings - 191
Runs - 6140
Average - 38.61
Strike rate - 132.49
Best - 113
100 - 5
50 - 40
200 - Yuzvendra Chahal became the fifth Indian bowler to take 200 wickets in T20 cricket.
Most wickets by Indian bowlers in T20 cricket -
257 - Piyush Chawla
256 - Amit Mishra
242 - R Ashwin
235 - Harbhajan Singh
200 - Yuzvendra Chahal
