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Finishing off with back to back 4 defeats, but still through the playoffs. What a last week of thrill it has been but in the end we finally got 3 teams that are gonne sea off into the playoffs after the penultimate matchbof the league. Delhi capitals versus Royal challengers Bangalore. One who wins gets into the qualifier with an extra advantage and the loosing team still fights for their nrr. Well Abu Dhabi has been always that ground where the ball comes in slow in the 1st innings and so did happen with Rcb as they were put to bat by Shreyas Iyer in the toss. Paddikal started of very well as he got to build up his 50 off 41 balls. Phillipe went out very early this day. Virat , Ab both of them got holed after being settled. In the end , with the efforts of lower orders and tail enders, Rcb posted a total of 153. Rabada and Nortje cranked 2 and 3 wickets respectively. Dc coming to bat , lost the wicket of Prithwi Shaw early. But Dhawan and Rahane are known to be the big match players and so did they built a long partnership before Shabaz Ahmed holed jattji. Soon a couple of more wickets fell in the form of Shreyas Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane but in the end , with very less balls left , Pant and Marcus Stoinis closed the game as Dc win the match with less than 10 balls remaining. Thereby easing both the teams to make it into the playoffs. Let’s have a look at how the pundits in twitter reacted to the game.

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