There is absolutely no ending to Royal Challengers Bangalore’s disastrous batting this in the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League. After experiencing inexplicable collapses in majority of the matches this season, the celebrated batting lineup of Royal Challengers have found themselves in a similar position in the ongoing match against Kolkata Knight Riders too.
After Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli departed with just 20 runs on the board, the onus was on AB de Villiers to guide them to a good total. However, the Protea star also failed to score big as he was dismissed by Sunil Narine for only 10, leaving the runners-up of last year reeling at 34 for 3.
After hitting the third delivery of the fifth over for a four by shuffling across the pitch, de Villiers tried a similar tactic on the fourth ball too. But in doing so, he exposed his leg-stump and also missed the delivery completely. The ball was a classic off-spin from Narine which landed on the middle stump and drifted in a bit before going past de Villiers’ attempted sweep to crash into his leg stump.
Here is a clip of his dismissal:
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