IPL 2020 Hero : Chahal weaves magic, Kohli calls him ‘game-changer’

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From 121-2 to 153 all out – Sunrisers Hyderabad was left stunned by Royal Challengers Bengaluru as they lost the game by 10 runs after dramatic collapse. 

 

Courtesy – one very special bowler Yuzvendra Chahal. 

RCB captain Virat Kohli reckoned Chahal’s final over was where the match turned in his side’s 10-run victory against Sunrisers in their IPL 2020 opener.

IPL 2020 Hero : Match winning performance by Chahal 

 

Sunrisers were 121 for 2, needing 43 to win from 30 balls with Jonny Bairstow batting on 61, but Chahal took two wickets in 16th over – Bairstow included – to swing the match his team’s way. Earlier, Chahal had also got Manish Pandey to end a 71-run stand for the second wicket, and he finished with 3 for 18 in four overs and the Man of the Match award.

“We kept our composure tonight,” Kohli told Star, the host broadcaster. “When they needed 43 I think off five, just had a chat in the middle saying ‘no shoulders dropping till the last run is scored. The game can change anytime.’ And Yuzi comes in, the strike bowler that he’s been for us, and changes the game completely in that over.

“Not many other spinners got too much out of the pitch, but tonight he showed that if you have skill in the wrist, you can purchase on any track,” Kohli added. “That’s why he bowls well in Bangalore too. The dew was a big factor tonight, the pitch was decent to bat on in the second half I thought – much better than the first half. But the way he came in, backed his skill and got the ball to turn and bowled attacking lines. He was the one who changed the game, in my opinion.”

IPL 2020 : Chahal reveals, how he planned differently for all 3 wickets

 

Chahal had a different plan for each of the three wickets he got, and all of them worked out. “When I bowled to Pandey I had the cover fielder back, so maybe he thought I’ll bowl outside offstump.” Chahal explained. “But that ball, I bowled on the stumps.

“For Bairstow, I knew that we need his wicket that over to come back into the game, even if I go for runs. That’s why I bowled it a bit fuller, but a bit on the legside, because it is very hard to hit from there since the ball is turning. And when Vijay (Shankar) came, Virat bhaiyya and AB (de Villiers) sir, we had decided that the first ball I will bowl a googly.”

RCB now takes on KingsXI Punjab on 24th September in their second match of IPL 2020. 

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