RCB vs DC | Player Ratings - Shreyas Iyer and Kagiso Rabada star as Delhi Capitals pile more misery on Royal Challengers Bangalore
After Kagiso Rabada’s devastating spell with the ball, Shreyas Iyer played a gem of an innings to help Delhi Capitals secure their third win of the tournament. With this, Royal Challengers Bangalore also secured their six consecutive loss, putting their playoff hopes almost out of reach.
Prithvi Shaw (6/10): Five fours in a row and without much feet movement. If someone squints their eyes, you can easily confuse him with a certain Virender Sehwag. A superbly paced innings for the major part of it and a careless dismissal like Sehwag further made the point even more nostalgic, but T20 is played on the basis of brains, and not by emotions. He was dismissed at a time when the team needed to set-up the base, alongside Shreyas Iyer.
Shikhar Dhawan (1/10): Shikhar Dhawan’s bad form is real. On the other day, that booming drive would have caressed through the covers for a solid boundary, but the underconfident Dhawan got an outside edge that flew to short third man without opening his account. He dropped a Virat Kohli catch earlier in RCB innings which makes him one of the worst performers of the match.
Shreyas Iyer (9/10): It was a terrific
Colin Ingram (4/10): The South African has tormented pacers all around the world in T20s and his growing reputation was almost on the spike for the way he played Pawan Negi today. But the low required run-rate made him complacent in the middle-overs and unnecessary shot selection against Moeen Ali resulted in his LBW dismissal.
Rishabh Pant (4/10): When he came out to bat, the game was almost done and dusted, and he just needed to hang in there to guide the team to victory. Pant did that efficiently and even though he was dismissed at the backend of the innings, there was no spine in the game.
Rahul Tewatia (6/10): Tewatia's only presence on the field came in the last over of the innings, and apart from that single, he was almost invisible in the entire game. Not his fault, though.
Chris Morris (7/10): Continuously clocking 150s, Morris made the RCB batsmen suffer and his two wickets further put the hosts on the backfoot in the game. While that performance alone is sufficient to give him an eight, his batting took one away from him. There was no reason for him to play that
Axar Patel (7.5/10): For a change, Axar moved away from his usual plan of bowling flat regularly and his flight unsettled Virat Kohli from the word go. The natural angle was on his side and he made it double threat by targeting Kohli’s middle stumps. While the Indian skipper still managed to convert them for singles, Marcus Stoinis was definitely not prepared for it. A performance that would make everyone in Delhi Capitals dug-out happy today.
Kagiso Rabada (9/10): It seems like the foreign bowlers are on a roll this season. After Alzarri Joseph put up the best bowling figures in the IPL last night, Rabada took four Royal Challengers Bangalore down and was the major factor in breaking their back. More than the numbers taken, his length was just a pacer’s delight and the batsmen forced themselves to commit errors eventually.
Ishant Sharma (5/10): It might not have been an earth-shattering performance that would take your breath away, but Ishant Sharma deserved credit for making RCB top-order suffer. He cramped them for
Sandeep Lamichhane (3/10): In due course of time, the young Nepal spinner will understand that bowling googlies with flight
