Indian Premier League 2017 - 56th Match
(Delhi Daredevils vs Royal Challengers Bangalore at Delhi)
RCB end disappointing season with consolation win
| RCB | vs | DD |
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| 161/6 (20) | 151/10 (20) | |
| RCB won by 10 runs | ||
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They might have had heady highs and lowly lows in between but Delhi Daredevils ended their season as they began it: let down by their mercurial batsmen after the bowlers kept Royal Challengers Bangalore down to a middling total. In their first fixture, Daredevils failed to chase down 157; here they came short going after 161. On both occasions, Rishabh Pant was left without any support from the other end, out for 45 off 33 in the 17th over. Like in Bangalore, Pawan Negi bowled the last over to take out Daredevil's last hope, Mohammed Shami, who had scored 21 off nine balls.
Winning their first match in their last eight attempts, Royal Challengers managed to get off just two wins, which would the joint-worst return for any team in any IPL. They did have their usual failings, though. On a pitch that Virat Kohli expected to offer a lot of turn, he and Chris Gayle laid a platform, but both fell for middling strike rates of 128.88 and 126.31. The rest didn't contribute much as Pat Cummins, Zaheer Khan and Shahbaz Nadeem pulled things back.
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