Faf du Plessis: An important match was played in the Indian Premier League on Thursday between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore (PBKS vs RCB), which Bengaluru won by a huge margin of 60 runs. This is RCB's fourth consecutive win and with this their hopes of reaching the IPL 2024 playoffs are still alive. Bengaluru has won 5 out of 12 matches played so far this season, while they have faced defeat in 7. Seeing the brilliant performance of his team, captain Faf du Plessis's confidence is sky high and he made a big statement about the victory against Punjab Kings.

What did Faf du Plessis say after winning the match?

After registering a big win by 60 runs against Punjab Kings, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis said during the post match presentation,

“It was a very good match. After losing the toss we scored 240 (241) runs. Our approach and aggression is good to see. We had some good conversations about making the same mistakes over and over again. Our way and perspective of looking at the game has changed. Batting with aggression is also one of them.”

“With the ball we were not taking enough wickets in the powerplay, so we talked about that as well. We were looking for some players who were in form. There were some players who were struggling to take run-scoring wickets. You have to fight for it and find your own way. If we look at it now, some people are in really good form. “We want to stick to this style of what we want to do, if we do that then we will prove that we are a really good team.”

This was the condition of the match

In this match played in Dhamarshala, Punjab Kings won the toss and chose to bowl first, which proved to be their big mistake. Batting first, RCB posted 241/7 runs on the scoreboard. Virat Kohli scored 92 runs in 47 balls. Apart from them, Rajat Patidar played a stormy inning of 55 runs on 23 balls and Cameron Green played a stormy inning of 46 runs on 27 balls.

At the same time, Punjab Kings made a good start while chasing this big score, but their middle order collapsed badly. Due to this, the entire team collapsed after scoring 181 runs in just 17 overs. Riley Rossouw scored 61 runs on 27 balls, Shashank Singh scored 37 runs on 19 balls and Jonny Bairstow scored 27 runs on 16 balls. It is noteworthy that 7 batsmen of Punjab could not even touch double figures.