It was Anushka Sharma’s celebration after the win that became the talk of the town. She did a ‘Namaste’ with folded hands to indicate a sense of relief.
Bengaluru: The Royal Challengers Bengaluru beat the Delhi Capitals by 46 runs on Sunday to keep their IPL 2024 Playoff hopes alive. With the win, RCB created an IPL record for becoming the first team to win five consecutive matches. But, it was actress Anushka Sharma who stole the show. The actress was present at the Chinnaswamy rooting for RCB. It was her celebration after the win that became the talk of the town. She did a ‘Namaste’ with folded hands to indicate a sense of relief. Here is the clip from after the win that is now going viral on social space:
Anushka’s reaction because she knew how bad Virat Kohli deserved this!!🥺❤️#ViratKohli #RCBvDC #IPL2024 #AnushkaSharma #Virushka pic.twitter.com/HUKv3gGQPQ
— Mr.Ak_Sanyasi (@Aakash6677) May 12, 2024
An 88-run partnership off 53 balls for the third wicket between Rajat Patidar (52) and Will Jacks (41), along with Cameron Green’s 32 not out and left-arm pacer Yash Dayal’s 3-20 headlined the RCB win.
Pushed into batting first, DC dropped four catches as RCB stayed the course of playing attacking cricket. But the visitors came back strongly in the last five overs, giving away 49 runs while taking five wickets to keep RCB to 187/9, 13 runs below 200, which seemed to be a strong possibility at one point.
In reply, Dayal led a superb bowlers’ show on a slightly two-paced pitch to bowl out DC for 140. DC, playing without captain Rishabh Pant due to slow-over rate suspension, never recovered from the setback of losing four wickets in the Power-play. Stand-in skipper Axar Patel’s 57 off 39 balls kept DC in the hunt, but he found little support from other batters, as dropping four catches in the first innings came back to haunt them.
Moreover, DC were hurt by Jake Fraser-McGurk and Tristan Stubbs’ runouts in the chase of 188. Sunday’s result means both RCB and DC are on 12 points, but the former are not in fifth place in the points table with a positive net run rate, as compared to the latter now in sixth position with a negative net run rate.