Rajat Patidar and Harshal Patel's efforts takes RCB into second Qualifier

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Hello, good evening and welcome to my page @birjudanak once again. RCB RCB that cheers came loudly in stadium whole match and that kind of positive energy helps RCB to beat LSG in eliminator where looks RCB will not win as they lost their pillar Faf, Kohli and Maxwell on early stage, but somehow they are able to manage score and then not allow LSG to reach target, and now they will meet RR for 2nd qualifier so let discuss this match in details.

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LSG won crucial toss where due factor is matter, and thus they chose to ball first which is good decision on this kind of batting surface. RCB lost Faf early in first over on duck which was a big blow for them but from other end Kohli and Patidar played well attacking shots. Mohsin Khan once again very impressive in his first spell as not allowed to play big shot as well as batsman struggling against him a lot. RCB going slowly but in last over of power play where Patidar becomes aggressive and hit 3 fours and a six which give momentum to RCB.

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Looks like Kohli in good touch but was out on a slow bouncer at outside off stump at third man boundary region. Looks like it will maxwell show, but he also out by Pandya while playing big shots. It looks like RCB lost their main player, and now they are under pressure, but Patidar keep playing his attacking shot which took RCB to another comfort level where they can smell a victory. Patidar made a useful partnership of unbeaten 92 runs which took RCB to a huge total of 207. Patidar made his first T20 century and first uncap Indian player to score a century in playoffs.

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In reply, LSG totally depends on their top order where De Kock hit a six and looks he was in rhythm but out next ball of Siraj, and they lost an early wicket. Now pressure on KL Rahul as he needs to play long and from other side need attacking batsman. All were waiting for Hooda or Lewis, but surprisingly Manan Vohra came to bat. He is not able to score in beginning, but later he played some shots but out also so LSG lost two wickets early. Rahul played attacking shots in last over of power play and maintain 10 RR which required so looks good though lost two wickets.

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Hooda is best find of this tournament for India as his batting is just brilliant which took load from Rahul to play big shot because LSG need Rahul till the end. The way Hooda and Rahul playing, LSG looks they were definitely win because they're scoring fast and dealing in sixes and boundaries. Deepak Hooda was out on 45 by Hasaranga googly and made a useful partnership of 97 runs with Rahul. Stoinis once again fail to score big as well as Lewis sent very late till match was out from LSG hand. When Rahul outs on 79, All hopes are gone and LSG not able to made 35 runs in last 3 overs which looks easy on this surface. Harshal Patel did brilliant bowling in last spell which was game changing spell.

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LSG did many mistakes in field as they missed chances of stumping, run out and dropped catches cost them lost the match. Also change in batting order by sending Vohra who didn't bat in this tournament also wrong decision because it's big match and chasing big score to need to send aggressive batsman upto the order who can be a game changer. Rajat Patidar got man of the match for his maiden ton and let RCB to one step near to the final. RCB will play against RR to get ticket of final. That's it from me for today, and stay tuned for the next post.