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RCB won five out of their seven games and climbed third on the points table before the BCCI put a halt to the lucrative T20 league.
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RCB won five out of their seven games and climbed third on the points table before the BCCI put a halt to the lucrative T20 league.
RCB booked a chartered flight for all its domestic players, staff and management, sending them to specific pre-identified hubs and then connected to their respective cities.
The RCB batsman recollected his experience of playing with the franchise's two big stars - Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers.
There have been few constants from last season, few have thrown a surprise and the remaining look to hang in there as the final phase of the league stage awaits. And before the competition resumes on Tuesday, we take a look at all the eight teams and how they have fared at the mid-season mark.
Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier has tested positive for COVID-19.
For the star-studded battle, we have included AB de Villiers as captain while Andre Russel has been picked as vice-captain.
Having started the season with much promise under Eoin Morgan, KKR so far have failed to inspire, suffering five defeats in seven matches.
India skipper Virat Kohli, who leads the RCB, said in a video posted by the franchise on its Twitter handle that they had had "focussed discussions" on how they can help at the ground level.
After carefully analysing the performance of his team, which has lost only two IPL matches so far in this edition, Hesson said what caught the team off-guard was the difficulty in playing the shots in the second innings.
The 30-year-old attacking leg-spinner conceded 34 runs in his four overs, taking just one wicket on Friday.
Harpreet Brar scored an important 17-ball 25, and also took three key wickets of Kohli, Maxwell and de Villiers to steer PBKS to a strong win over RCB.
Brar first removed Kohli, who looked to charge down the wicket but missed the line as the ball kept low. He then plucked Glenn Maxwell (0) and AB de Villiers (3) to completed a three-fer that any bowler in world cricket would've craved for.
Harpreet Brar dismissed three key rival batsmen -- Virat Kohli (35), Glenn Maxwell (0), and AB de Villiers (3) -- as RCB floundered in the run-chase to post 145 for eight in 20 overs.
Rahul and Chris Gayle (46 off 24) shared 80 runs but Punjab's middle order collapsed as Harpreet Brar, batting at number seven, was the only other batsman to manage a double-digit score.
The Bangalore outfit comes into this game after a narrow one-run win against Delhi Capitals on Tuesday.
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