Victory in their second match of the tournament. After that, Royal Challengers Bangalore was going to break the playoff dream with six consecutive losses. From there, Virat Kohli has raised hopes again with three consecutive wins.

On Saturday night they beat Gujarat Titans by 4 wickets and 38 balls in hand. Bangalore are number seven with their fourth win in 11 matches. On the other hand, Gujarat is number 9 after losing number 7 in the same match. Both teams now have 8 points. Punjab Kings also have equal points. That means they all have hope.

Bangalore’s bowlers laid the foundation for the win. The target in front of Kohli is only 148 runs. In the opening, Kohli’s 42 with 2 fours and 4 sixes in 27 balls and Du Plessis’s onslaught made Bengaluru’s way to victory much easier.

Du Plessis played a devastating innings of 64 runs off 23 balls. He hit 3 sixes with 10 fours in the innings. However, Josh Little and Noor Ahmed’s excellent bowling saw Gujarat fight back.

Bengaluru lost 6 wickets to score 92 to 117 runs without a wicket. But Dinesh Karthik and Swapneel Singh did not let the team in danger. Karthik made 21 off 12 balls and Swapneel made an unbeaten 15 off 9 balls to leave Bangalore victorious.

Josh Little spent 45 runs but took 4 wickets alone. Noor Ahmed’s victim is two for 23 runs.

Earlier, Gujarat Titans were bowled out for 147 runs by the host bowlers at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bangalore.

Bengaluru won the toss and sent Gujarat to bat. After losing the toss, Gujarat’s batsmen started losing wickets in front of Bengaluru bowlers. Wriddhiman Saha 1, Shubman Gill out for 2 runs. Sai Sudarshan scored 6 runs. Shah Rukh Khan scored the maximum 37 runs.

30 from David Miller’s bat and 35 from Rahul Tewatia’s bat. Rashid Khan scored 18 runs and Vijay Shankar scored 10 runs.

Mohammad Siraj, Jos Dayal and Vijaykumar Bashak took 2 wickets each for Bengaluru.