DC vs RCB IPL 2025: Royal Challengers Bengaluru's star batter Virat Kohli had spent a long time with Faf Du Plessis in the dressing room when the latter used to play for the Bengaluru-based franchise. Both Kohli and Faf used to open the innings and Kohli knows about Faf's batting style. And now that he is representing Delhi Capitals and was playing against his former IPL franchise in Delhi on Sunday when Kohli didn't stop himself from giving tips to the bowlers to help them dismiss the DC opener.
Kohli then caught the cameramen's attention as he was seen pointing towards the bowler which Faf won't play the sweep shot and was also seen making a catching action. And on the next ball itself, Kohli took the catch while standing at long-on.
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Faf made a comeback to DC's playing XI after missing a few games owing to an injury. But the Protea batter wasn't at his absolute best and batted at a strike rate of less than 100 during the powerplay. He was seen struggling throughout his knock and Krunal Pandya took his wicket for scoring just 22 runs off 26 balls. But Abhishek Porel gave the hosts a flying start as he smashed 26 runs off 11 balls and then Josh Hazlewood took his wicket.
Hazlewood bowled with brilliant lengths and took three balls to dismiss Porel, who was caught behind.
Karun Nair smashed a pull shot and it went for a four in Hazlewood's over and went for a four, they then played an ordinary ball in Yash Dayal's over and that mistimed shot went toward the mid-wicket.
The RCB spinners then dominated the powerplay as they stopped the flow of runs. They gave away just 20 runs in four overs between Suyash Sharma and Krunal Pandya, who then dismissed Faf Du Plessis.
The hosts did try to bounce back on the back of Tristan Stubbs' gritty knock of 34 runs.
Josh Hazlewood and Yash Dayal conceded 17 and 19 runs during the 19th and 18th over and helped DC post a respectable target of 160 runs.
KL Rahul was DC's highest run-getter as he scored a gritty knock of 41 runs off 39 balls.