RCB skittle DC for 75, Kohli record
- Royal Challengers Bengaluru routed Delhi Capitals by nine wickets on April 27 after bowling them out for 75 at Arun Jaitley Stadium. - Josh Hazlewood took 4 for 12, Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3 for 5, and Virat Kohli became the first batter past 9,000 IPL runs. - The win lifted RCB to second, while Delhi’s third sub-100 collapse left them seventh. (espncricinfo.com)
Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowled Delhi Capitals out for 75 on April 27 and finished the chase in 6.3 overs for a nine-wicket win. (iplt20.com) (espncricinfo.com) Rajat Patidar won the toss at Arun Jaitley Stadium and bowled first, and RCB’s seamers turned the first four overs into a collapse. Delhi were 8 for 6 after 3.5 overs, the earliest any IPL side has lost six wickets. (iplt20.com) (espncricinfo.com) Josh Hazlewood removed KL Rahul and Sameer Rizvi in his opening over and finished with 4 for 12 in 3.3 overs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar struck with the second ball of the match and ended with 3 for 5 in three overs. (iplt20.com) Delhi’s powerplay score of 13 for 6 was the lowest in IPL history. Their top six batters made seven runs in total, and Abishek Porel’s 30 off 33 was the only innings that carried them past 49. (espncricinfo.com) (iplt20.com) RCB treated the chase as a net-run-rate chance. Jacob Bethell hit 20 off 11 before falling, and Bengaluru got home with 81 balls left, the second-biggest win by balls remaining in IPL history. (iplt20.com) (espncricinfo.com) Virat Kohli crossed another landmark during the chase, becoming the first batter to pass 9,000 runs in the IPL. ESPNcricinfo listed him at 9,012 runs after the match, with Rohit Sharma the only other player above 7,000. (espncricinfo.com) The result flipped the recent head-to-head in a week. Delhi had beaten RCB by six wickets in Bengaluru on April 18, but the rematch in Delhi became one of the shortest completed games in league history at 138 balls. (espncricinfo.com 1) (espncricinfo.com 2) In the table, RCB moved to 12 points from eight matches and a net run rate of 1.919, behind Punjab Kings on 13 points. Delhi stayed seventh after eight matches, with three wins and five losses. (espncricinfo.com) For Delhi, the 75 was their third-lowest IPL total and their 11th all-out score under 100, the most by any team in the league. For RCB, it was the kind of one-sided win that changes both the standings and the math. (espncricinfo.com)
