IPL 2017 | Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils - Player ratings

Royal Challengers Bangalore 

Chris Gayle - (4/10)

Mandeep Singh - (5/10)

Relegated to the No. 3 spot, he smashed Pat Cummins for two consecutive boundaries but eventually fell to the same bowler in the same over. Failed to step up when his team needed him the most.

If his ticket to England hasn’t been confirmed yet, don’t know whose will be. A 69-run innings that was a combination of skill, power, and elegance took RCB to a score that they could at least attempt to defend. Well deserving of the man of the match award. 

Stuart Binny - (6/10)

Vishnu Vinod - (6/10)

The 23-year-old looked like he meant business as he hit the ball over Zaheer Khan’s head for a maximum. He sacrificed his wicket to let Jadhav continue his innings when the duo made a hash while attempting a run.

Struggled to get any sort of meaningful contact on the ball while batting but when handed the ball in the last over against a well-settled Rishabh Pant, Negi proved his worth picking up two wickets while giving away just one run.

Yuzvendra  Chahal - (8/10)

Billy Stanlake - (8/10)

Another outstanding performer for RCB today as he bowled three overs at a stretch in his first spell picking up the wicket off Karun Nair. He was brought back to finish his allotted overs early when Samson and Pant appeared to have take the game away from RCB but the tall Aussie sent Samson packing and got his team back into the fold.

Another impressive performance from the Englishman. He was brought as the second change and got the all-important first wicket for his side. Troubled the batsmen with his pace and variations continuously. Looks like a good signing for the Challengers. 

Iqbal Abdulla - (6/10)

Delhi Daredevils

Sam Billings - (6/10)

Aditya Tare - (6/10)

Was slow off the mark to begin with and once the pressure of the run rate started creeping, picked the wrong bowler to go after as he had his furniture displaced by Mills.

Like Tare, Samson, too, struggled to get going and with the pressure mounting just threw away his wicket. More is expected from the wicketkeeper in the absence of major stars.

Karun Nair - (6/10)

Rishabh Pant - (9/10)

Even though he wasn’t able to see the match through, Pant, pretty much like Jadhav did for RCB, waged a lone battle by trying to get his team past the finish line. But he eventually fell short by 15 runs. But today he just gave the world a glimpse of why he is rated so highly in India.

No heroics this time. He was lucky not be given out for LBW a ball before Chahal displaced his bails. His bowling performance of 2/29, too, left a lot to be desired.

Chris Morris - (7/10)

Pat Cummins - (7/10)

Same as Morris - tried to up the run-rate when he just had to give the strike to Pant. However, with the ball showed off his skills finishing with figures of 1/29 in his four overs.

Nadeem was the pick of the bowers today. On a pitch that has always favoured batsmen, Nadeem just stopped the run flow completely conceding just 13 runs in his four overs. Watson’s wicket was just the cherry on the cake for the Jharkhand spinner.

Zaheer Khan - (7/10)

Amit Mishra - (4/10)

Not a day that the 34-year-old will remember fondly. Even if he may forget that he was smashed for 24 runs in a single over, his batting took the team further down. Out of the 14 balls he faced at the end of the innings, seven were dots that put tremendous pressure on his young partner on the other end.