The 67th match of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2022) was played between Faf du Plessis-led Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Hardik Pandya-led Gujarat Titans (GT) at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Thursday, May 19.
Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated table-toppers Gujarat Titans by 8 wickets to win their 8th game of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022 and keep their playoffs hopes alive.
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Earlier, Gujarat Titans won the toss and opted to bat first in the match and they made one change to the playing XI as Lockie Ferguson replaced Alzarri Joseph in the team. Royal Challengers Bangalore, on the other hand, made just one change to the playing XI as Siddarth Kaul replaced Mohammed Siraj in the line-up.
In the powerplay, Gujarat Titans were able to score 38/2 as they lost the wickets of Shubman Gill for 1 and Matthew Wade for 16. Notably, Gill was dismissed by Josh Hazlewood and Wade was declared out LBW in a controversial DRS decision.
Star performer Wriddhiman Saha, who once again batted brilliantly, got run out on the 3rd ball of the 9th over and he was able to score 31 runs off 22 balls, including 4 fours and 1 six.
After that, Hardik Pandya and David Miller had an amazing 61 runs partnership off 47 balls, before the latter was dismissed for 34 on the second ball of the 17th over by leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga.
In the end, Hardik Pandya played a captain’s knock and Rashid Khan played an explosive cameo knock to help Gujarat Titans (GT) score 168/5. Hardik Pandya scored 62 runs off 47 balls, including 4 fours and 3 sixes, and Rashid Khan smashed 19 runs off 6 balls, including 1 four and 2 sixes.
Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli provided an amazing start to Royal Challengers Bangalore in the run-chase against Gujarat Titans as they were able to score 55/0 in the powerplay.
The Royal Challengers Bangalore openers completed 100 runs partnership in 71 balls with Kohli contributing 56 and du Plessis 40 runs.
In the end, Rashid Khan dismissed both the RCB openers but it was not enough for Gujarat Titans to win the match as Glenn Maxwell and Dinesh Karthik took the Royal Challengers Bangalore past the finish line.
Here’s How Twitter Reacted To IPL 2022 Match Between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Gujarat Titans:
Cometh the hour, Cometh the Champion @mvk_hli 👏 #TataIPL
— S.Badrinath (@s_badrinath) May 19, 2022
.@Gmaxi_32 does what he does best 🔥 A great win for @RCBTweets tonight. Congratulations on the win 👏 #RCBvGT #IPL2022
— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 19, 2022
Nice to see Virat Kohli back amongst runs. #rcb #RCBvsGT #ViratKohli #IPL2022
— Mohammed Azharuddin (@azharflicks) May 19, 2022
This is a solid win for RCB against table topper. If they qualify they will carry this momentum into the playoffs.
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan) May 19, 2022
Whoa, the next couple of days are gonna be something #TATAIPL2022. Playoff determination going down to the penultimate game.
— Ian Raphael Bishop (@irbishi) May 19, 2022
Finally, a very fine innings by #ViratKohli in #IPL and that too in a run chase! Well done champion and well done @RCBTweets . #GTvRCB #RPSwing
— RP Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) May 19, 2022
It’s not often that the last day of the league phase has no bearing on the qualification…kuch scenario toh bacha hi hota hai. Not this time. The #DCvMI game will decide the fourth team to qualify…
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 19, 2022
RCB stay alive in IPL 2022, now they need Mumbai to beat Delhi.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) May 19, 2022
Finally, a very fine innings by #ViratKohli in #IPL and that too in a run chase! Well done champion and well done @RCBTweets . #GTvRCB #RPSwing
— RP Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) May 19, 2022
Well played 👏#RCB. Not the ideal way for us to finish our league stage. However, we move on. Now it’s playoffs time! #AavaDe #RCBvGT
— Gujarat Titans (@gujarat_titans) May 19, 2022
Superb match winning knock, @KeepOfficial‘s back just at the perfect time👏 @Gmaxi_32 looked a hurry 🚅@RCBTweets phenomenal- all eyes on the @DonaldTrump game now! #RCBvGT #IPL2022 pic.twitter.com/0XBRWTGuHf
— Reema Malhotra (@ReemaMalhotra8) May 19, 2022
RCB fans now 👏👏 pic.twitter.com/W00RgCsNU8
— குச்சிமிட்டாய் (@ikuchimittai) May 19, 2022
When you are dead in the competition but you decide who will go in play offs #IPL #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/jlG8MIAI76
— rockstar Sam ⚡ (@shivvayee) May 19, 2022
#GTvRCB #rcb to their play-off chances: pic.twitter.com/ur5SEtr9O6
— Anonymous9726 (@Anonymous97261) May 19, 2022
RCB fans be like :
Han Han we love Mumbai Indians. pic.twitter.com/4Mg8GDe1JN— Yasir. (@The_Introverty) May 19, 2022
MI fans to RCB fans! pic.twitter.com/865rMRORdb
— Abhishek Tripathi (@abhithecomic) May 19, 2022
RCB fans after winning yet another must win game to stay alive #RCBvGT #RCBvGT pic.twitter.com/rtTVNArMyO
— Dikuu Jain (@DikuuJ) May 19, 2022
rcb fans to mi for next 72hrs👇👇😆🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/FXHe1bdiAl
— Kawal7818 (@kawal7818) May 19, 2022
Mumbai Indians won to eliminate CSK, now they have to lose to eliminate RCB. #IPL
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 19, 2022
RCB after beating Gujarat Titans #GTvRCB pic.twitter.com/KWCT1owrmY
— ASmemesss (@asmemesss) May 19, 2022
RCB team be like #RCBvGT #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/7MBEKCUa2N
— Vishal Deshmukh (@kaafiAverage) May 19, 2022
Without that HP over, this match would’ve gotten dicey for RCB.
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) May 19, 2022
Third Timing lowest rating for any of Virat Kohli’s T20 half-centuries – but you could also say his timing was impeccable. Felt like a proper *thing*, that innings
— Ben Jones (@benjonescricket) May 19, 2022
Good thing about this Bangalore win is now we will get to watch RCB fans supporting MI. 😂 #IPL
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 19, 2022
It would have been fun if Gujarat also had something to lose. #IPL
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) May 19, 2022
KING FOR A REASON, KING OF ALL SEASONS.
Really happy to see our champ Virat Kohli is back in his ferocious form. #RCBvGT #TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/leaQ9kzwzq
— Amit Mishra (@MishiAmit) May 19, 2022
The century partnership celebration between Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis. pic.twitter.com/RZFeNFePX5
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra) May 19, 2022
Looks familiar doesn’t it??? Yep
“The KING is DOMINATING”
#RCBvGT #IPL2022— Riyan Paragg (@ParagRiyan) May 19, 2022
CEO of IPL @KeepOfficial 👑 pic.twitter.com/cu3d8TfWae
— V༙I༙R༙A༙T༙ S༙T༙A༙N༙ ᵛᵏ (@Viratstan_) May 19, 2022
73 off 54 in a must win match 🔥
He’s back 😭❤️!
The King is back 😍
Well played champ @KeepOfficial 🙌❤️#ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/jVFYfDDivy— Sahithi 💫 (@sahithi_18) May 19, 2022
Finished?? @KeepOfficial is back 👑❤ pic.twitter.com/rIwe1fNNDB
— 𝐑 𝐑 May 19, 2022
V well played King Kohli 😍❤️@KeepOfficial pic.twitter.com/8RsAKnunJh
— ⋆ (@TansMe_V) May 19, 2022
Rcb eliminated srh and pbks 💔
— BonCharm (@BonsiBoulevard) May 19, 2022
When the lights are the brightest, Pressure is highest, Crowds are the loudest, the best will arrive, the strongest will survive, the greatest will thrive 🙌🏻❤️
King Is Back💫❤️ #ViratKohli pic.twitter.com/K4Tr7kuWBD
— Siddhesh (@iamSiddhesh56) May 19, 2022
RCB fans yeh lo apna pfp change karlo to this pic.twitter.com/Il5mawDfnp
— sourav (@purplepatch22) May 19, 2022
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