Friday, May 23, Eshan Malingu made a brilliant effort to exhaust Rajat Patidar at a crucial time during the match between the Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Lucknow.
Chasing 232 points, RCB was on 167/3 at the end of the 15th. Patidar and Jiteh Sharma fought for RCB, and both looked at good contact. Jiteh was undefeated on the 22nd while Patidar was hit 17.
The SRH desperately needed a breakthrough, and Eshan Malingu acceded on the occasion. On the fourth ball of the end, he finished a superb run-out to return Patidar. He first played a beautiful Yorker around the stump OFF that Patidar managed to sneak alongside the field.
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The two drummers then decided to steal a simple, but it didn’t take them for a long time to regret the call. Eshan Malingu quickly ran to his left and recovered the ball before hitting the eye of the bull at the end of the non-state. Patidar was caught up well and had to return.
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Brilliant bowlingage 🤝 Excellent alignment 🫡
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At the same time, Eshan Malingu also rejected the dangerous Romario Shepherd to place SRH in the driver’s seat. During the final delivery of the end, Malinga attracted Shepherd to offer a return, finishing a well -captured dismissal and made a referral.
At the time of writing this report, RCB was on 174/5 at the end of 16. Jiteh Sharma and Krunal Pandya were in the middle for the outfit based in Bengaluru.
Earlier in the game, SRH displayed an intimidating total of 231/6 in 20 Overs after being invited to beat first. Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head gave SRH a start of flight by adding 54 points for the first window. Although none of them can convert their departure into a large score, Ishan Kishan stayed until the end to bring his team to a huge total.
The SouthPaw scored an undefeated 95 on only 48 balls with the help of 7 ovens and 5 six. Apart from Kishan, Abhishek (34) was the only SRH striker to cross the brand of 30 points. For RCB, Romario Shepherd was the choice of quisors, taking 2 for 14 out of 2 overs.
