DC vs RCB IPL Highlights 2021, Delhi Capitals vs Royal Challengers Bangalore: 27 April 2021 Ahmedabad(Narendra Modi Stadium)
DC duo of Rishabh Pant and Shimron Hetmyer turned the game on its head in the end but still felt tantalisingly short by just one run to hand RCB the win.
himron Hetmyer hit Kyle Jamieson for three sixes in an over (Image: IPL/Twitter)
Shimron Hetmyer nearly pulled off a heist for Delhi Capitals, but for the brilliance of AB de Villiers, whose unbeaten 75 off 42 balls had turbo-charged Royal Challengers to 171, a score Delhi fell short of by a solitary run. It was a classical edge-of-the-seat, high-quality thriller.
Destruction of de Villiers
It seemed just another day at the office for de Villiers, as he beguiled the audience. No stroke was un-de Villiers-like, the staple ones the audience had long got used to. But there’s still a thrilling freshness about them — he makes the audience believe that they are beholding the strokes for the first time in their lives. There is no monotony of repetition — that’s the stamp of true greatness, the legends of the game transcend the commonplace.
A typical de Villiers knock makes it difficult to grade the quality of strokes. Almost every stroke that flows from his bat is worthy of fine detailing, be it for his imagination, enterprise, or execution. But a steered boundary of Kagiso Rabada’s near-yorker was a thing of utter beauty. De Villiers didn’t quite pick it off his stumps, nonetheless it was a delivery most batsmen would have struggled to even get a glimpse of. Fast and searing just outside off-stump, not quite a yorker, but still a difficult ball to put away, de Villiers just moved his front foot away, opened the bat face a wee bit and turned the ball between backward point and short third-man, stationed to abort his cuts. The stroke ushered in a splendorous endgame
FULL SCORECARD
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE 171/5(20.0 OV) RR 8.55
EXTRAS: 2
(b – 0, w – 2, no – 0, lb – 0, penalty – 0)TOTAL171/5 (20.0 OV) RR 8.55
FALL OF WICKETS
1-30 (Virat Kohli, 4 ov), 2-30 (Devdutt Padikkal, 4.1 ov), 3-60 (Glenn Maxwell, 8.3 ov), 4-114 (Rajat Patidar, 14.5 ov), 5-139 (Washington Sundar, 18 ov)
| BOWLERS | O | M | R | WKT | WD | NB | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISHANT SHARMA | 4 | 1 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.5 |
| KAGISO RABADA | 4 | 0 | 38 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.5 |
| AVESH KHAN | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| AMIT MISHRA | 3 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| AXAR PATEL | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.25 |
| MARCUS STOINIS | 1 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 23 |
MATCH NOTES
Bangalore
- Mandatory Power play (1-6): Bangalore 36/2
- Bangalore 55/2 in 7.4 overs
- Strategic Time-out: Bangalore 60/3 in 8.3 overs
- Bangalore 103/3 in 13.5 overs
- AB de Villiers completes 5000 runs in IPL
- 4th wicket partnership: 53 off 36 balls between R Patidar (26) and de Villiers (27)
- Strategic Time-out: Bangalore 124/4 in 16.0 overs
- de Villiers T20 fifty: 52 runs in 35 balls (3×4) (2×6)
- Bangalore 151/5 in 19.1 overs
- Innings Break: Bangalore 171/5 in 20.0 overs
DELHI CAPITALS 170/4(20.0 OV) RR 8.5
EXTRAS: 6
(b – 0, w – 2, no – 0, lb – 4, penalty – 0)TOTAL170/4 (20.0 OV) RR 8.5
FALL OF WICKETS
1-23 (Shikhar Dhawan, 2.3 ov), 2-28 (Steven Smith, 3.3 ov), 3-47 (Prithvi Shaw, 7.2 ov), 4-92 (Marcus Stoinis, 12.4 ov)
| BOWLERS | O | M | R | WKT | WD | NB | ECON |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DANIEL SAMS | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.5 |
| MOHAMMED SIRAJ | 4 | 0 | 44 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| KYLE JAMIESON | 4 | 0 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| WASHINGTON SUNDAR | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| HARSHAL PATEL | 4 | 0 | 37 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9.25 |
| YUZVENDRA CHAHAL | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
MATCH NOTES
Delhi
- Mandatory Power play (1-6): Delhi 43/2
- Referral 1 (6.1 ovs): R Pant against Bangalore (lbw) Successful (DEL: 1, BLR: 1)
- Delhi 50/3 in 7.5 overs
- Referral 2 (8.4 ovs): Bangalore against M Stoinis (lbw) Unsuccessful (DEL: 1, BLR: 1) (Retained)
- Strategic Time-out: Delhi 53/3 in 9.0 overs
- Delhi 104/4 in 14.2 overs
- Strategic Time-out: Delhi 116/4 in 16.0 overs
- 5th wicket partnership: 55 off 32 balls between R Pant (8) and S Hetmyer (47)
- Delhi 150/4 in 18.2 overs
- S Hetmyer T20 fifty: 50 runs in 23 balls (2×4) (4×6)
- R Pant T20 fifty: 50 runs in 46 balls (4×4) (0x6)
