Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) beat Kings XI Punjab by 10 wickets in their Indian Premier League (IPL) clash on Monday at the Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore. A stupendous bowling display by Umesh Yadav helped RCB dismiss Punjab to a paltry 88 runs in 15.1 overs. RCB skipper Virat Kohli and Parthiv Patel ensured their team strolled towards victory in 8.1 overs.
Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kings XI Punjab by 17 runs to win their 3rd successive match in the 2019 Indian Premier League and keep their chances of making it to the play-offs alive.
Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore registered third successive victory in IPL 2019 as they beat Kings XI Punjab by 17 runs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday. Challengers Bangalore to 202 for four against Kings XI Punjab.
Virat Kohli quoted saying "We won 4 out of last 5 could have been 5 out of 5. We are just looking to enjoy. The partnership of ABD and Stoinis changed the match for us. Our only focus was to play good as a team, losing 6 in a row hurt all of us. That big break before Mohali helped us. It is important that we don't take any pressure. When two-left handers came in, we got a lot of dot balls and that helepd us. It was an outstanding effort by the bowlers."
Where as KIngs XI Punjab captain said that There can be so many places where I thought we lost the game, but honestly in a T20 game it's all about winning those pressure moments which we have not been able to win in the last few games. If we had actually held onto those crunch moments, we might have had a couple of more points or probably four points but that's that, we weren't able to close it out and we got some experience in the middle order couldn't really close it out in the crucial moments today. It's all about getting one win together and we can get on a roll like RCB won three in a row now, so it's all about getting one win and then we go back home and then we probably try to win a couple on the trot. It's very important to keep trust in the players. We held onto giving players enough opportunities to try and come out on trumps. It's important to back the players. In all the eleven games we played to be brutally honest, we haven't been outplayed by any opposition which is a great positive for us. The one area we could really work on is the powerplay and the back-end finishing.
