Kohli’s 9000 runs, Bhuvi-Hazelwood’s storm, game stopped due to storm, see moment-record of Delhi-RCB match

In the very first over of the match, Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled a yorker ball, which was worth watching. Delhi Capitals made debut for Sahil Parakh. Sahil came to open with KL Rahul. Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled a precise yorker on the third ball of the over, for which Sahil had no answer. The ball fell straight into the stumps and shattered the stumps. With this, Sahil could not even open his account in his debut match.

Josh Hazlewood created havoc as soon as he caught the ball. Australian fast bowler Hazlewood, who brought the second over of the innings, created a stir as soon as he came. He made the situation of Delhi worse by tying the sack to KL Rahul on the first ball and Sameer Rizvi on the very next ball.

Bhuvneshwar also took two wickets in the third over, due to which half of the Delhi team returned to the pavilion with a total score of 8 runs. Bhuvi walked Tristan Stubbs and Akshar Patel. The problems did not end here, Hazlewood gave the sixth blow to Delhi by dismissing Nitish Rana in the fourth over. Delhi’s score was now 8 runs at the loss of 6 wickets.

Due to the lethal bowling of Bhuvi and Hazlewood in the powerplay, Delhi was able to put only 13 runs on the board, due to which it registered an embarrassing record of smallest score in the first 6 overs. During this period, Bhuvi and Hazlewood completely destroyed Delhi’s top order by taking three wickets each. Earlier, the record of smallest powerplay score was in the name of Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad, who had scored 14-14 runs.

After Miller’s dismissal, it did not take much time for Delhi to be all out. With the help of Abhishek Porel’s 30 runs, Delhi somehow managed to reach the total of 75 runs. Hazlewood took the fourth wicket and dismissed Porel and with this Delhi’s innings was reduced to 16.3 overs. This is Delhi’s third smallest total in IPL. At the same time, this is the third lowest total of any team against RCB.

David Miller and Abhishek Porel tried to control the innings, but on the last ball of the ninth over, Rasikh Salam Dar gave the seventh blow to Delhi by walking Miller. Miller was out after scoring 19 runs. However, during this period he touched the figure of 12000 runs in T20 cricket. Miller became the 13th batsman in the world to reach this milestone and the third batsman from South Africa after Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock.

Amidst this fall of wickets, a dust storm on the field disrupted the match. Due to this sudden tornado the game had to be stopped for some time. Although the players remained on the field, the situation was such that batting was not possible. After some time, the storm calmed down, after which the game started again, but even after this the havoc of RCB bowlers continued.

Chasing a modest target, RCB’s Jacob Bethal and Virat Kohli added 27 runs for the first wicket. Bethal was out after scoring 20 runs in 11 balls. After this, Devdutt Padikkal and Kohli ensured the team’s victory in just 6.3 overs. Padikkal scored a stormy 34 runs in 13 balls, while Kohli scored 23 runs. Winning six was seen from Kohli’s bat.

Virat Kohli took a single on the last ball of the sixth over of the innings and with this he achieved the milestone of 9000 runs in IPL. He is the first batsman in history to reach here. Kohli needed 11 runs. Virat Kohli has also captured the second position in terms of scoring the most runs against any one IPL team. He is also at number one. He has 1174 runs against Chennai Super Kings, while he has scored 1172 runs against Delhi so far.

This is RCB’s 21st win against Delhi in 35 matches. With this, the defending champion has reached joint second place in terms of registering the most wins against any one team. Chennai Super Kings, KKR, Mumbai Indians also have 21 wins each. RCB won the match with 81 balls remaining, which is the second biggest win in terms of balls remaining. Mumbai had defeated KKR in 2008 with 87 balls to spare.