LSG vs RCB: Watch- Krishnappa Gowtham Takes A Superb Diving Catch After Initially Misjudging It To Get Rid Of Suyash Prabhudessai

Royal Challengers Bangalore’s (RCB) skipper Faf du Plessis won the toss & elected to bat first against Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). LSG brought in the sly spinner Krishnappa Gowtham in the playing 11 and dropped Avesh Khan which was quite surprising. Krishnappa Gowtham can also smash lusty blows at the back end of the innings.

LSG suffered a massive blow as KL Rahul was injured in the 2nd over while saving a boundary as he pulled his leg. Virat & Faf were involved in a partnership of 62 runs in the 9 overs on a sluggish track. Faf was seen rotating the strike as there was an uneven bounce on the surface.

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Krunal Pandya, the interim skipper, did quite a decent job in the absence of KL Rahul. The spinners Ravi Bishnoi, Amit Mishra, Krishnappa Gowtham & Krunal Pandya bowled impeccable lines & lengths and didn’t give any freebies.

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Watch- Krishnappa Gowtham takes a screamer

At the end of 14 overs, RCB’s score was 89-3. Amit Mishra came back into the attack and was bowling the 15th over, on the 3rd delivery Amit Mishra bowled a slower delivery and was a bit full-length delivery but Suyash Prabhudessai went on back-foot and played a shot towards long off but couldn’t clear the fence as Krishnappa Gowtham took a diving forward catch.

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Remarkable effort! ??

K Gowtham dives to his front and grabs a fine catch near the ropes ????#TATAIPL | #LSGvRCB pic.twitter.com/Ju6yzYWDsT

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Suyash Prabhudessai, the right-handed batter was seen struggling as he managed to score 6 runs in 7 balls. RCB’s score at 14.3 overs was 90-4. Amit Mishra would be pumped up as he foxed the batters with his variations.

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Crucial Phase for RCB

Faf du Plessis now needs to make sure that he stays till the end of the innings as the side doesn’t have much fire-power present at the back end of the innings. RCB would be aiming to score 40 odd runs in the last 5 overs of the match as a score of around 150 runs would be competitive on the surface.

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Krunal Pandya will have to manage the overs of Naveen & Stoinis smartly as they would undoubtedly be targeted by Faf & Karthik. It won’t be a bad idea to give another over to Amit Mishra as the veteran can get the key wicket of Faf du Plessis.

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