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Rajat Patidar in a real sense claimed the greatest phase of his early profession with a heavenly hundred that got Royal Challengers Bangalore inside a sniffing distance of title clash after out-batting Lucknow Super Giants by 14 runs in the IPL Eliminator on Wednesday.
RCB will meet Rajasthan Royals in the second Qualifier on Friday, which will conclude Gujarat Titans’ resistance for Sunday’s final
Rajat Patidar’s 54-ball-112 not out which had 12 fours and seven enormous sixes, RCB took the stuffing out of LSG assault, heaping a forcing 207 for 4 of 20 overs.
For LSG, the main redeeming quality was Mohsin Khan’s eminent figures of 1 for 25.
In answer, KL Rahul’s 78 off 59 balls didn’t make a big deal about an effect save beefing his singular run-count as LSG completed on 193 for 6 after 20 overs.
Rajat Patidar’s hundred set it up pleasantly for RCB, no expressions of recognition will be enough for the splendid Harshal Patel (4-0-25-1), whose 18th over loaded with wide yorkers and off-cutter varieties unequivocally shifted the match in his team’s approval,
On a day their renowned batting triplet of Faf du Plessis (0), Glenn Maxwell (9) and Virat Kohli (25) neglected to enchant a limit Eden swarm, RCB’s No, 3 worked out of his skin as 90 runs came in fours and sixes off only 19 balls.
While the majority of the ritzy RCB hitters battled for timing, the 28-year-old looked easy with his cuts, punches, counter-punches and drives to overshadow the rest.
Furthermore, to make Patidar’s story seriously intriguing, he went unsold at the mega auction and joined the team as substitution after start when a player called Luvnith Sisodia was injured.
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