IPL 2022: RCB vs SRH: Jansen, Natarajan power Sunrisers Hyderabad to easy win over Bangalore

Marco
Jansen
and
T
Natarajan
bagged
three
wickets
each
to
bundle
out
RCB
for
68
runs
and
pave
way
for
a
comprehensive
win
for
SRH.

Chasing
a
paltry
69-run
target
started
off
steadily
as
openers
Kane
Williamson
and
Abhishek
Sharma
ensured
that
their
team
did
not
lose
any
early
wicket.

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Skipper
Williamson
was
happy
to
play
a
sheet
anchor
role
and
allowed
Abhishek
Sharma
to
attack
from
the
other
end
as
the
2016
champions
crossed
the
50-run
mark
in
5.5
overs.

Harshal
Patel
finally
broke
the
64-run
partnership
dismissing
Abhishek
Sharma
for
47
but
it
was
too
little
too
late
for
RCB
as
Hyderabad
chased
down
the
69-run
target
in
just
8
overs
winning
the
match
by
nine
wickets.

Earlier
in
the
day
after
being
put
in
to
bat
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
got
off
to
a
terrible
start
as
in
the
second
over
left-arm
South
African
pacer
Marco
Jansen
cleaned
up
his
countryman
RCB
skipper
Faf
du
Plessis
for
5.

In
the
very
next
ball,
he
dismissed
Virat
Kohli
caught
by
Aiden
Markram
for
a
golden
duck.

Two
balls
later
he
sent
opener
Anuj
Rawat
packing
for
a
duck
caught
by
Markram
who
took
his
second
catch
of
the
match
and
Jansen
got
his
third
wicket
to
leave
RCB
tottering
at
8/3.

The
Faf
du
Plessis
led
side
went
further
down
the
drain
as
T
Natarajan
got
the
prized
scalp
of
dangerous
Glenn
Maxwell
to
leave
them
in
deep
trouble
at
20/4.

Suyash
Prabhudessai
and
Shahbaz
Ahmed
struck
a
partnership
in
order
to
resurrect
Bangalore’s
innings
but
Jagadeesha
Suchith
dismissed
Prabhudessai
for
15
as
they
lost
half
of
their
side
for
47
runs.

Two
balls
later
he
dismissed
in-form
batter
Dinesh
Karthik
for
a
duck
as
the
wicket-keeper
batter
became
the
third
batter
to
be
dismissed
without
troubling
the
scorers
after
Kohli
and
Anuj
Rawat.

In
the
next
over
pacer,
Umran
Malik
sent
Shahbaz
Ahmed
packing
at
RCB
lost
their
seventh
wicket
for
49
runs.

Harshal
Patel
and
Wanindu
Hasaranga
helped
RCB
scratch
their
way
to
the
50-run
mark.
Left-arm
pacer
Natarajan
dismissed
Harshal
Patel
for
4
as
RCB
were
reduced
to
55/8.

The
31-year
old
struck
for
the
third
time
as
he
dismissed
Hasaranga
for
8
as
RCB’s
ninth
wicket
fell
on
65.
Bhuvneshwar
Kumar
wrapped
up
the
tail
dismissing
Mohammed
Siraj
for
2
and
RCB
were
bundled
out
for
68
in
just
16.1
overs.

Jansen
trouble
for
Kohli

Jansen
also
became
only
the
fifth
bowler
to
dismiss
Virat
Kohli
on
a
golden
duck
in
the
Indian
Premier
League
history.

South
African
pacer
achieved
this
feat
in
the
match
No
36
of
the
IPL
2022
between
Royal
Challengers
Bangalore
(RCB)
and
Sunrisers
Hyderabad
(SRH)
at
the
Brabourne
Stadium.

Former
India
captain
Kohli
who
has
not
been
in
good
touch
in
the
cash-rich
league
was
removed
by
Jansen
on
the
very
first
ball
that
the
stylish
right-handed
batter
faced.

Kohli
came
at
the
No.
3
to
bat
for
RCB
after
Jansen
removed
opener,
Faf
Du
Plessis,
on
the
second
delivery
of
the
second
over.

The
RCB
skipper
Faf
couldn’t
do
anything
to
the
nipping
away
delivery
as
the
ball
got
past
his
defense
to
knock
the
off
stump
out.

The
next
ball
was
also
a
good
length
ball
by
the
pacer,
which
Kohli
tried
to
nudge
straight,
but
he
got
a
thick
outside
edge
which
went
straight
to
Aiden
Markam.

This
is
the
second
consecutive
golden
duck
for
Kohli
in
IPL
2022
as
he
was
removed
by
Dushmantha
Chameera
on
the
very
first
ball
in
the
last
game
against
Lucknow
Super
Giants
too.

Kohli
was
dismissed
by
Ashish
Nehra
for
his
first
golden
duck
against
Mumbai
Indians
in
2008.
This
was
followed
by
a
golden
duck
against
Sandeep
Sharma
in
2014
and
Nathan
Coulter-Nile
in
2017.

Then
after
5
years
in
2022,
Virat
Kohli
was
dismissed
on
the
very
first
ball
by
Lucknow
Super
Giants
pacer
Chameera
before
Jansen
got
him
too
on
a
golden
duck
in
the
next
match.