Sign up now ><\/a><\/p>\nRoyal Challengers Bengaluru’s captain Rajat Patidar. AP Photo\/Ashwini BhatiaSource: AP<\/p>\n
Star batter Virat Kohli hit 43 to lay the foundation for Bengaluru\u2019s mammoth total – the highest ever in an IPL play-off – after being invited to bat first. <\/p>\n
The 37-year-old Kohli, who has stepped away from Test cricket and T20 internationals, is chasing a second straight IPL title with Bengaluru after waiting 18 seasons to lift his first in 2025. <\/p>\n
Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal, who made 30, put on 72 for the second wicket before Jason Holder hit back for Gujarat with two wickets in three balls. <\/p>\n
Holder got Kohli to drag the ball back onto his stumps and then had the left-handed Padikkal caught behind by wicketkeeper Jos Buttler. <\/p>\n
But Bengaluru quickly rebuilt the innings with Patidar and Krunal Pandya putting together a counter-attacking stand of 95 off 47 balls. <\/p>\n
Both Patidar and left-handed Pandya hit a flurry of fours and sixes including in a 28-run 15th over as Gujarat faltered with dropped catches and sloppy ground fielding. <\/p>\n
Kagiso Rabada dropped Patidar on 20 and a few fielding blunders let Bengaluru race away before Pandya top-edged Rabada to deep mid-wicket. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is one of those games that we\u2019d like to forget and start over,\u201d said Gujarat skipper Shubman Gill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe do address fielding in team meetings and practice sessions. Under pressure situations we were not up to the mark.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patidar kept up the charge as he reached his fifty off 21 balls with a six off Rabada. <\/p>\n
Patidar lost another partner in Tim David, bowled by Prasidh Krishna for four, but finished with a flourish alongside Jitesh Sharma who hit 15 off five balls. <\/p>\n
In reply, 2022 champions Gujarat were never in the chase after being reduced to 5-51 inside six overs.<\/p>\n
Gujarat started briskly with in-form opener Sai Sudharsan starting with two successive fours off New Zealand quick Jacob Duffy.<\/p>\n
But the bowler had his revenge in a lucky manner in the next over when Sudharsan was out hit wicket, the bat slipping out of his hand and hitting the stumps as he played a sparkling cut to the cover boundary. <\/p>\n
Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled Gill for two and Josh Hazlewood rattled the stumps of Buttler, who departed for 29.<\/p>\n
Wickets kept tumbling as pace bowler Rasikh Salam struck twice in one over and the writing was on the wall.<\/p>\n
Impact substitute Rahul Tewatia made 68 to save Gujarat the blushes after they slumped to 8-88 in 11.2 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rajat Patidar led from the front with an unbeaten 93 to help defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru storm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[64,63,740,85],"class_list":["post-696699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-cricket","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=696699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=696699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=696699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=696699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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