Sunil Narine (4/21) and Lockie Ferguson (2/30) dominated in restricting Royal Challengers Bangalore to a below-par 138/7 within the IPL 2021 Eliminator match on the Sharjah Cricket Stadium on Monday. Narine was distinctive in breaking the encourage of Bangalore’s batting within the guts overs whereas Ferguson was ready enhance.
Interestingly, Narine brushed off RCB skipper Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers, and in-make Glenn Maxwell all over his spell and grew to vary into supreme the 2d bowler after Harpreet Brar of Punjab Kings to win away the three RCB batsmen in a single innings.
Except for Kohli, Maxwell, and ABD, Narine additionally brushed off KS Bharat, who stole the expose all over RCB’s earlier match against Delhi Capitals by hitting a closing-ball six.
BOWLED ‘EM!!!
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— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders) October 11, 2021
Opting to bat first, Bangalore had a immediate initiate with 53/1 within the vitality-play. Virat Kohli bought going with a sweep off Shakib Al Hasan earlier than slamming Shivam Mavi for encourage-to-encourage fours within the following over. Devdutt Padikkal took two boundaries off Lockie Ferguson within the fourth over. Nevertheless the Original Zealander had the closing chortle in his 2d over as Padikkal chopped one into his stumps.
Post vitality-play, Kolkata squeezed the flee float as 17 runs came off the following four overs, along with KS Bharat’s wicket, holing out to prolonged-off off Sunil Narine.
That started a batting poke for Bangalore as three overs later, Narine had his 2d wicket of the match with Kohli residing himself for a slog-sweep, supreme to be bowled by technique of the gate.
Narine struck with his third wicket within the 15th over, getting the ball to excellent flip in and crawl between bat and pad to disturb the stumps of de Villiers. In his final over, Narine claimed his fourth wicket as Maxwell sliced a slog-sweep to short third man. Ahmed and Daniel Christian fell within the closing two overs but Bangalore excellent managed to unsuitable the 130-flee worth.
