New Delhi: Punjab kings Victory of five wickets Royal Challengers Bangalore On Friday, a rainy-verse Indian Premier League encounter. Due to the evening shower, the late match was reduced by 14 overs per side.
Batting first, Tim David knocked at a 50-run counter-hurdle off 26 balls, guiding RCB 95 for nine. Josh Hazlewood acted with the ball for RCB, returning the impressive figures of 3/14, but his effort could not stop PBK from hovering to the target in only 12.1 overs. Nehal Wadhera scored the top score for Punjab, scoring 33 runs in 19 delivery.
Despite the disadvantage, RCB captain Rajat Patidar reached an individual milestone, which became the second fastest Indian to score 1000 runs in IPL History.
He achieved only 30 innings, only for Sai Sudarshan of Titans, Gujarat, who took 25 innings. In doing so, Patidar crossed the choice of Sachin Tendulkar and Ruturaj Gikwad (both 31 innings), and Tilak Verma (33 innings).
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In particular, the Patidar also became the first Indian batsman in IPL history, reaching 1000 runs with an average above 35 and the strike rate exceeded 150.
After the result, RCB moved to fourth place in the points table with four wins and three out of seven matches.
Meanwhile, Punjab Kings climbed second with 10 points, registering their fifth win in seven matches.
RCB will face Punjab Kings again in its reverse stability in Mulanpur on Sunday.
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