Gujarat Lions beat RCB by 7-wickets
Riding on Andrew Tye's three-wicket pull and Aaron Finch's hurricane fifty, Gujarat Lions indented up an agreeable seven-wicket charm Royal Challengers Bangalore to keep alive their IPL playoff expectations, in Bengaluru on Thursday. Pursuing 135 to win, Gujarat lost both openers - Ishan Kishan (16) and Brendon McCullum (3) - to be lessened to 23-2 yet Finch impacted 5 fours and 6 sixes in his glimmering 34-ball 72-run innings as the guests frolicked home with 6.1 overs to save.
Prior right-arm seamer Tye's three-wicket pull set off a top-arrange fall as Royal Challengers Bangalore were knocked down some pins out for 134 by Gujarat Lions after captain Suresh Raina chosen to bowl in their eighth match of IPL 10. [ Full detail Scorecard ]
Tye, who had taken a cap trap on IPL make a big appearance against Rising Pune Supergiant at Rajkot, struck twice in two balls and come back with figures of 4-0-12-3 to leave the hosts at 22-3 in the fifth over.
Other than Tye, Ravindra Jadeja (2/28) snapped two wickets and Basil Thampi (1/34) and Ankit Soni (1/28) gotten one wicket each as Lions doled out a taught knocking down some pins execution.
For RCB, Pawan Negi (32) and Kedar Jadhav (31) were the top scorers.
This is just the third triumph in the season for Gujarat, who had so far assembled only four focuses from seven amusements to grieve at the base of the table. They now achieved the 6th spot with six focuses. With this misfortune, the entryway is quick shutting for Bangalore, who have only five focuses from nine matches now.
Pursuing the objective, opener Kishan crushed a few fours in the first over to make a positive begin. He grabbed two more limits before being caught leg before by Badree in the third over. McCullum too died in the fifth over when he was gotten at long-on by de Villiers as he turned into the second casualty of Badree.
Be that as it may, Finch took the battle to the resistance as he impacted progressive sixes in the third and fourth bundles of Badree's over to make his goals clear. In the ninth over, Finch picked Aniket Choudhary for unique treatment and impacted a few fours and a six. He crashed two sixes off Negi and continued managing in limits before being gotten by de Villiers at the long-on limit in the thirteenth over.