da bet7k： Hasaranga, Harshal and Willey also play a part in handing Royals their first defeat of IPL 2022
da spicy bet： Sreshth Shah05-Apr-20223:01
Brathwaite: Karthik has a clear mind while batting
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Karthik hammered Ashwin, who up until his final over had gone for only 18. First, he walloped him through backward square-leg, then over long-on, followed by mid-off and finally third man for a 21-run over that reignited Royal Challengers’ hopes. He then took a toll on Saini with three boundaries through the leg side, and then left the stage for Shahbaz.Shahbaz had taken the back seat to reach 16 in 14 balls, before he got moving too. He struck a six and a four each off Prasidh Krishna and Boult, and even though he couldn’t finish the game off, the match was practically over at the time of his dismissal.For Karthik, it was another chance to show why he is among the most dangerous finishers in T20s. He has not yet been dismissed in the IPL, making 90 runs in 44 balls so far, and used the depth of the crease to great effect to put bowlers off their mark, maximising the area behind square on the leg side.Shimron Hetmyer and Jos Buttler added the finishing touches to the Royals innings•BCCI
Royals, in fits and starts
It took a scrappy innings from Jos Buttler, some counter-punches from Devdutt Padikkal – also against his former team – and some big hits from Shimron Hetmyer to lift Royals to 169 after they were asked to bat first.Padikkal hit two fours and two sixes in his 29-ball 37 from No. 3 after Willey had dismissed Yashasvi Jaiswal early. But he was done in by a slower ball from Harshal Patel, who finished with figures of 1 for 18 in four overs.Wanindu Hasaranga’s four overs were filled with googlies, and Samson was out to one of them cheaply. When Hetmyer walked in at 86 for 3, run-scoring was tough with Hasaranga and Harshal keeping a chokehold on the batters.Hetmyer took seven balls to get off the mark and, by the 16th over, Royals had made only 107 with seven wickets in the bank. Buttler had faced only 36 of those deliveries and scored 39 till that point.But the slog-overs push did finally come, with Hetmyer punishing Mohammed Siraj and Harshal in the 17th and 18th overs, and Buttler creaming back-to-back sixes off Siraj’s 19th to reach his fifty in 42 balls.Akash Deep, off whose bowling Buttler was dropped twice in one over in his first spell, then conceded three sixes in the 20th for the current Orange Cap holder to finish on 70 from 47, with Hetmyer ending unbeaten on 42 in 31 balls.
