BENGALURU, APR 07
A sixth consecutive defeat was added to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) long litany of woes as Delhi Capitals registered a four-wicket win at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Sunday.
Skipper Shreyas Iyer scored a match-winning 67 (50b, 8×4, 2×6) as the Capitals chased down the 150-run target with seven balls to spare.
The visitors lost three late wickets, including that of Shreyas and Rishab Pant, with only a handful of runs left to accumulate. But they didn’t have to break much sweat to collect their third win of the season.
Herculean task
RCB, on the other hand, will in all probability need to win each of its eight remaining games — a near-impossible task considering the rut the team is in — to harbour any hopes of qualification.
When Tim Southee dismissed Shikhar Dhawan for nought off the third ball, caught by Navdeep Saini at short third-man, the mood was upbeat. The Kiwi paceman could have had Shreyas in the same over, but a diving Parthiv Patel couldn’t cling on. Southee’s redemption, following his forgettable effort against KKR on Friday, lasted only a brief while as Prithvi Shaw creamed him for four consecutive fours in the third over.
