Gasping for breath after six successive defeats, Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore will look to snap their winless streak and stay afloat when they take on an inconsistent Kings XI Punjab in a must-win IPL encounter on Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kohli, who was recently named the \nLeading Cricketer of the year for the third successive time by Wisden \nAlmanack, will hope that fortunes finally knock at the doors of RCB as \nthey need to win all their next eight matches to salvage any hope of \nmaking it to the play-off.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
RCB have been inconsistent with both \ntheir bowling and batting faltering in many occasions.The RCB bowlers \nhad allowed Sunrisers Hyderabad to post a mammoth 232 with centuries \nfrom Jonny Bairstow and David Warner before they were skittled out for \n113 to lose the match by a massive 118 runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Against Kolkata \nKnight Riders, despite AB de Villiers and Kohli scoring 63 and 84 \nrespectively, RCB bowlers failed to defend 205 with KKR riding on Andre \nRussell’s explosive knock of 13-ball 48 to romp home.In their first \nmatch against Chennai Super Kings, RCB were bowled out for a paltry 70 \nin 17.1 overs after their top-order crumbled against Harbhajan Singh and\n Imran Tahir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In their last match against Delhi, barring Kohli’s \n33-ball 41 and Moeen Ali’s 18-ball 32 cameo, RCB’s ordinary batting \ndisplay took the side to a modest 149\/8, a target which was easily \nachieved by DC.”We need to grab those chances, can’t give excuses every \nday. We just weren’t good on the given day. That’s the whole story of \nRCB this season,” Kohli had said after the match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“When you have \nclarity, you can take your chances better. It hasn’t happened so far, \nand that’s the reality.” KXIP, on the other hand, have won four matches \nout of seven but they have maintained dominance on home ground.However, \nPunjab failed to defend 197 against Mumbai Indians in their last match \nwith Kieron Pollard’s knock of 31-ball 83 blowing them away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Despite\n the loss, KXIP’s batting has done well with opener K L Rahul, who \nscored unbeaten century against Mumbai, and Chris Gayle looking in \ndevastating form.Gayle had felt a twitch in the back in the previous \nencounter against Mumbai and it remains to be seen if he would be \navailable for Saturday’s clash against RCB.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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