IPL 2018: KXIP Wrap Up At 155 As Anushka Cheers RCB
Bengaluru: After continuous fall of wickets, Kings XI Punjab were all-out for 155 in the 20th over, in their second IPL 2018 tie against Royal Challengers Bangalore here. Opener KL Rahul, who continued his fine form from the last match, when he scored the fastest fifty in the history of IPL, fell for RCB offbreak bowler Washington Sundar in the 12th over. Although he missed out on yet another fifty (47 runs off 30 balls), Rahul was the highest run scorer for the KXIP.
As wickets fell in regular intervals for the Punjab team, captain Ravichandran Ashwin played a responsible innings with a sensible 33 off 21.
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RCB pacer Umesh Yadav picked three wickets in the fourth over of the innings, when he departed three important batsmen in Mayank Agarwal, Aaron Finch and Yuvraj Singh.
Actress Anushka Sharma, also wife of RCB captain Virat Kohli, was seen cheering for the local team here at the Chinnaswamy stadium. Check out her pictures here:
Teams:
RCB: Brendon McCullum, Quinton de Kock (wk), Virat Kohli (capt), AB de Villiers, Mandeep Singh, Sarfraz Khan, Washington Sundar, Chris Woakes, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal
KXIP: KL Rahul (wk), Mayank Agarwal, Karun Nair, Yuvraj Singh, Aaron Finch, Marcus Stoinis, Axar Patel, R Ashwin (capt), Andrew Tye, Mujeeb Ur Rahman, Mohit Sharma