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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Virat Kohli was out on the first ball for the second straight match as his lean patch continued in the Indian Premier League on Saturday during his side Royal Challengers Bangalore's humiliating defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
MUMBAI : Virat Kohli was out on the first ball for the second straight match as his lean patch continued in the Indian Premier League on Saturday during his side Royal Challengers Bangalore's humiliating defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Toulon shrugged off the absence of injured South African star Cheslin Kolbe to beat champions Toulouse 19-15 and boost their push for a Top 14 play-off spot on Saturday.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) have enjoyed a five-match winning streak and head coach Tom Moody has attributed role clarity for the recent success. Sunrisers cantered to a nine-wicket win against Royal Challengers Bangalore on Saturday to rise to the second spot in the points table. "We are very specific in our training as to where we are playing, who the opposition is," Moody said at the post-match press conference.
Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad will stage the qualifier 2 and the final (on May 29), while the Eden Gardens in Kolkata will host the qualifier 1 and eliminator of IPL-2022. As of now, the BCCI has decided to allow 100% crowd capacity during the IPL playoffs. There was speculation that the BCCI will keep the playoffs in Mumbai and reduce the crowd capacity due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in the country, but the Board has decided to wait and watch the situation.
South Africa at home less than a fortnight after the conclusion of the ongoing Indian Premier League, with the opening match scheduled in New Delhi on June 9. The five matches will take place across 11 days, concluding with the final game at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru.
Mumbai Indians take on Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday in a bid to turn their fortunes around and register their first win of the season. Their loss against Chennai Super Kings meant that they became the first team in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to lose their first seven matches of a season. In their last game against LSG, they were flattened by KL Rahul's brilliant century and were eventually beaten by 18 runs. This time around, at the Wankhede Stadium, captain Rohit Sharma will be desperately looking for a way to come out on top and arrest the slide.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) skipper Kane Williamson credited his bowlers for their stupendous performance that helped them bowl Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) out for 68 in the nine-wicket win at the Brabourne Stadium here on Saturday. Marco Jansen landed the early blows and T Natarajan wiped off the lower-order in a brilliant display of medium pace bowling to restrict Royal Challengers Bangalore to a sub-100 total in the IPL 2022 game. Jansen took 3/25, claiming all three of his victims in his first over itself, the second of the innings, as he dismissed Faf du Plessis (5), Virat Kohli (0) and Anuj Rawat (0) to reduce RCB to 8/3 at the end of the second over from which they never recovered.