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Dinesh Karthik was standing at the non-striker’s end when Jasprit Bumrah was running through the Royal Challengers Bengaluru middle-order. Bumrah was on a hat-trick twice – once in the 17th over when he dismissed RCB captain Faf du Plessis and Mahipal Lomror off successive balls and then in the 19th over when he got rid of Saurav Chauhan and Vijaykumar Vyshak. On both occasions, Bumrah couldn’t get the third.
After watching all the carnage from the other end, when Karthik finally got his chance to bat, he promptly hit Bumrah for a six – that was only the second boundary Bumrah had conceded in the day. It spoke a lot about both Bumrah and Karthik.
Faf du Plessis (61) and Rajat Patidar (50) also played an important role in ensuring RCB got close to the 200-run mark. Karthik (53 not out off 23 balls) produced just the kind of knock RCB needed towards the end of the innings.
In a contest where his fellow pacers erred consistently, Bumrah’s accuracy and mastery over variation helped him rule the roost once again.
Mixing up his fiery yorkers perfectly with sharp bouncers, Bumrah snaffled the in-form Virat Kohli (3) early on to extend his ordinary run at the Wankhede Stadium while playing the IPL.
Source – Sports 18
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