IPL 2015 RCB vs DD Highlights: Bangalore Seal Play-off Berth After Match vs Delhi Called Off Due to Heavy Rain
Royal Challengers Bangalore made it to the Indian Premier League play-offs after their match against Delhi Daredevils was rained off. Delhi scored 187/5 but Bangalore's chase lasted only seven balls when the rain interrupted the game. Catch all the highlights here.
Royal Challengers Bangalore booked a play-off berth in the Indian Premier League after their game against Delhi Daredevils was washed off. Delhi, batting first, scored a competitive 187/5 riding on fifties from captain JP Duminy and Quinton de Kock. The Bangalore chase lasted only seven balls before the clouds opened up to abandon the game.
Catch all the highlights of the game here. (Live Scorecard | Points Table | Stats)
(All times in IST)
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1940: That's it! Match called off due to heavy rain.
The #RCBvsDD game in Bengaluru has been called off due to rain. Teams get a point each. #RCB are in #IPLplayoffs
- IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 17, 2015
1937: Rain is pelting down at the Chinnaswamy but at Hyderabad, Sunrisers have won the toss and elected to bat. Follow the game here.
Really pelting down now in Bengaluru. If it does not stop before 7-45 think we done. pic.twitter.com/VImcTFWal8
- Simon Doull (@Sdoull) May 17, 2015
Covers coming back on...and now, we will start losing overs. #RCBvDD #IPL
- Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 17, 2015
If both #DD #RCB & #SRH #MI games end as no result, then #CSK 18, #RCB 16 #RR 16, #KKR 15, #SRH 15, #MI 15 #KKR will qualify on NRR #IPL
- Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) May 17, 2015
The pitch inspection, which is likely to be at about 19:00, will involve some very muddy boots! #RCBvsDD #IPL
- IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 17, 2015
. @henrygayle probably giving a trailer of what's to follow in sometime - @yuvstrong12 #IPL https://t.co/jC2DuOYcze
- IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 17, 2015
Play Hard, Play Fair - Spirit of Cricket at #IPL @imvkohli @yuvstrong12 https://t.co/7oP1zyPKGA
- IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) May 17, 2015
1800: Great first delivery from Zaheer Khan and the clouds have open up. It's poring down in Bangalore and the players are back in the hut. This is pretty heavy and looks like a delay on the cards.
1755: Jayant Yadav to open the bowling for Daredevils - interesting. Brilliant over though! Just two runs off it.
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1740: That's it! Single off the last ball - Delhi post a formidable 187/5. De Kock played a brilliant hand of 69 and then captain Duminy flayed the Bangalore bowling to score an unbeaten 67 off 43 deliveries. Big ask this for Bangalore.
1736: FOUR! Short from Starc and Duminy pulls him to square-leg. Wrong length but a good shot.
1733: SIX! Sourabh Tiwary swing hard and hits the sight-screen on the full. Expensive over from Harshal Patel - 16 runs from the 19th over.
1731: FOUR! Duminy swings and finds the long-leg boundary. FOUR more - over covers this time. Duminy is playing a stunning knock here.
1728: FOUR! Pitched right up to the batsman but Duminy still squeezes it past covers. 50 for the Daredevils captain off 35 deliveries.
1720: 150-up for Daredevils. Three overs still to go with Duminy at the crease on 41. He needs some support and if he gets it from Tiwary, Delhi can post 180 here.
1712: If Duminy and Mathews can provide a final push, Delhi can well be on their way to a 180-plus total. But is that out? Is Mathews just short of his crease? This would be unlucky for the Sri Lankan captain and yes, RUN OUT! Mathews departs for one. DD 141/5 (15.2 overs)
1708: OUT! Duck for Jadhav. Short and wide, throws his bat at it, gets a top-edge and is caught behind off Harshal. DD 139/4 (14.3 overs)
1705: OUT! Yuvraj (11) goes for another biggie but falls to Chahal. Ball tossed up further to the bat, mistimes it and is caught by Starc at long-off boundary. Another failure for Yuvraj. DD 137/3 (13.5 overs)
1704: SIX again! This time Yuvraj joins the party - Over mid-wicket! Massive over this from Chahal.
1703: SIX more! Over long-on this time - Duminy taking Chahal on. Ball turning into the left-hander and the Delhi captain is surely in a very positive frame of mind.
1702: SIX! Duminy sweeps and puts Chahal into the crowd over square leg.
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1655: OUT! De Kock's (69) blitz comes to an end. Takes on Chahal and finds Kohli. Virat Kohli is all pumped up - throws the ball into the ground after taking the catch. He really wanted that wicket, didn't he? DD 110/2 (11.2 overs)
1653: SIX! Over mid-wicket goes De Kock. Dinda taken to the cleaners. DD 109/1 after 11 overs.
1651: SIX! Slower ball from Dinda and De Kock pummels it over wide long-on.
1651: FOUR! Outside edge from De Kock - all going Daredevils' way now. Dinda bowling too wide and is leaking a lot of runs.
1646: SIX! Duminy now - how does it feel big man? He asks Chris Gayle!
1644: SIX! FOUR! FOUR! - Quinton de Kock has raced to his second fifty off just 30 balls here. Daredevils having a go at RCB, for sure.
1638: Gayle with the ball. Wraps De Kock on the pads - big appeal from the keeper but Gayle just turns at the umpire with hope. Too 'cool' to appeal! Decent over though from the big Jamaican, just four from it. DD 61/1 after 8 overs.
However, this is how the race to Orange cap is heating up: 556 - Warner, 498 - Rahane, 480 - Kohli, 446 - ABD, 436 - McCullum, 422 - Gayle, 419 - S Iyer, 406 - Rohit
1633: OUT! Iyer (20) cuts Patel and finds Gayle at point. Ball was dug in short, there to be hit - Iyer would be gutted with that! DD 55/1 (6.2 overs)
1628: FOUR! On the pads and over mid-wicket. 50-up for Delhi and DD openers coming into the game - top shot from De Kock that!
1625: SIX! Iyer goes big - wide from Starc, Iyer opens his front leg and slices it over point.
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1625: FOUR! Last ball of the over from Wiese and De Kock goes over mid-off. Solid shot that!
1620: FOUR! Iyer now gets into the act - punching the ball through the off-side. Expensive over from Dinda that. DD 34/0 after 4 overs.
1617: FOUR! De Kock getting into his stride. Dinda pitches it wide, De Kock slaps it ferociously though covers.
1612: FOUR! Slapped through covers this time. Hashal Patel is letting the lid off.
1610: FOUR! First boundary. Finally De Kock gets one in the middle of the bat - pitched up and slapped down the ground.
1608: Another tight over from Ashoke Dinda this time. DD openers De Kock and Iyer trying too hard to hit the ball and are mistiming it completely. DD 8/0 after 2 overs.
1600: Terrific first over from Mitchell Starc. The tall Aussie is on the mark and RCB look pumped up for this one. Virat Kohli clapping hard and encouraging his troops. DD 3/0 after 1st over.
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1535: The teams for the game -
We're just minutes away from the game. Here's our playing XI with our batsmen getting padded up. #RCBvDD #DilDilli pic.twitter.com/p7gJbAhnpZ
- Delhi Daredevils (@DelhiDaredevils) May 17, 2015
#RCB XI: @imVkohli*, Gayle, Mandeep, AB, Karthik†, David Wiese, Sarfaraz, Yuzi, Dinda, Starc & Harshal #RCBvDD #PlayBold #RCBGoGreen #IPL
- Royal Challengers (@RCBTweets) May 17, 2015
1530: Toss time - the coin comes down in RCB's favour and Kohli opts to bat first on their 'Go Green' day. No changes for RCB but for Delhi Angelo Mathews comes in for Albie Morkel.
1520: The last phase of the IPL is upon us - RCB need a win and well Delhi, they need something to restore their pride. All the big spending the auctions have fallen flat on its face. Big bucks don't win you championships, big players do, in form players do - hence proved, yet again.
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An angry and animated Virat Kohli injected a fresh dose of life in Royal Challengers Bangalore's slowly-fading campaign on Friday. The 26-year-old, who wears his emotion on his sleeve, looked like an angry man on a solo mission as he let his bat do most of the talking in the most crucial fixture of their campaign this year.
A 19-ball 44 in a drama-filled six-over chase in a rain-curtailed game in Hyderabad was enough to take his team home against another top-four aspirants and tricky opponents in Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Sitting in third spot in the points table, the RCB have found their confidence again. Up against an inconsistent and seventh-placed Delhi Daredevils, Kohli will hope to dominate once more to usurp Rajasthan Royals and take second spot.
As for Delhi, their campaign has had a few good, sporadic patches but inconsistency has been their biggest drawback. The exciting batting form of Shreyas Iyer, the return (of sorts) of Zaheer Khan and one-odd fifty from Yuvraj have all been pleasing but results have not gone their way. Against Bangalore, JP Duminy & Co. have a chance to sign off in style.