#4 Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Delhi Daredevils, 2013
RCB’s 2013 season was full of undulated performances. Some days, they were these superhumans that were impossible to beat. On others, their spark fizzled out suddenly. In spite of boasting of the strongest playing XI in the IPL, especially in the batting department, Kohli’s men could not even qualify for the playoffs.
However, they did give the audience some exciting action.
Their second super-over of the season was against the Delhi Daredevils, this time in their backyard – the Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore. The match was tied when RCB levelled scores with the 152 made by the Daredevils.
Gayle and AB de Villiers came out to bat in the super-over and scored a total of 15 runs against a misfiring Umesh Yadav. David Warner and Ben Rohrer had an uphill task ahead of them and Ravi Rampaul was the bowler.
Super-over | RCB | DD |
Ball 1 | 1 | W |
Ball 2 | 1 | 4 |
Ball 3 | 1 | 0 |
Ball 4 | 0 | 6 |
Ball 5 | 6 | 1 |
Ball 6 | 6 | W |
Total | 15 | 11 |
AB de Villiers’s characteristic sixes off the last two balls of the Yadav over shifted the momentum right away. Gayle catching Warner off the first delivery of the super-over almost sealed the deal for RCB.
What set the two super overs apart was the calm head that the South African kept even after scoring just 3 runs off the first 4 deliveries. Irfan Pathan could not do the same when his side required 5 from 1 to win the game. Instead, he ended up losing his wicket.
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