RCB icon Virat Kohli claimed an orange cap, beating MI’s Suryakumar Yadav.© Bcci
Mumbai Indians (MI) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) won the Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Delhi Capital (DC) on a blockbuster on Sunday in the Indian Premier League (IPL). MI won the Table-Toppers Gujarat Titans (GT) and second place to jump in third place behind DC to jump in third place. However, RCB’s sixth direct win claimed him to the top position, pushed DC to fourth place. MI stood third while GT also temporarily fell in second place.
The RCB icon Virat Kohli, who slammed his sixth half -century of the season, claimed the Orange Cap, beaten MI’s Suryakumar Yadav and GT’s Sai Sudarshanan, who will have a chance to retrieve the top position with their team facing Rajasthan Royals on Monday. Kohli has scored 440 runs in 10 matches so far.
RCB’s Pacer Josh Hazlewood claimed the purple cap after taking two wickets against DC, taking his tally to 18 scale this season.
Chasing 163 for victory, Bangalore slipped 26–3 before Virat Kohli and Pandya and scored 119 runs to achieve his goal with nine balls with nine balls at Feroz Shah Kotla Ground in Delhi.
Delhi -born Kohli hit 51. Left-handed Pandya killed an unbeaten 73 off 47 balls when he returned from 1-28 with his left-handed spin in 10 matches with a seventh win of Bengaluru, to reach the top of the 10-Team table.
Since the establishment of the league in 2008, he and Kohli won the sixth consecutive win of Bengaluru as the discovery of their first IPL title.
Once set once, Pandya landed his power with boundaries and reached his fifty off 38 balls, with exor four closed.
Kohli hit his sixth half-tone as he went as the lead batsman of this season with 443 runs with Mumbai Indian batsman Suryakumar Yadav (427).
He finally fell to Sri Lankan fast bowler Dushmanatha Chamera before Pandya and Tim David, who scored 19 runs off five balls, taking the team in line.
(With AFP input)
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