Former Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) skipper Virat Kohli’s inexperienced jersey nightmare continued as he walked again to the pavilion with out opening his account in opposition to Rajasthan Royals within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on Sunday. It was Kohli’s second consecutive golden duck of the IPL in a ‘inexperienced jersey’. In 2022, Kohli was dismissed in ‘inexperienced jersey’ on the primary ball by Jagadeesha Suchith in an IPL match in opposition to Sunrisers Hyderabad. On Sunday too, the RCB batter was dismissed on the very first ball of the match by Trent Boult in opposition to Rajasthan Royals throughout an IPL match at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Karnataka’s Bengaluru.

He did not open his account in each matches performed in ‘Green Jersey’.

While enjoying in opposition to Rajasthan Royals, RCB had been requested to bat first and Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis stepped onto the pitch.

RR tempo bowler Trent Boult drew the primary blood as Virat Kohli walked again to the pavilion for a golden duck 0(1). The inswinging supply from the left armer has been the Achilles heel of Kohli for the previous few overs. Shahbaz Ahmed got here in however misplaced his wicket to Boult within the third over of the match.

Du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell stepped up as soon as once more to deliver RCB’s innings again on monitor. They dealt in boundaries and on the finish of the powerplay RCB managed to place a rating of 62/2 on the board. Maxwell and Du Plessis continued their onslaught on Rajasthan bowlers. Maxwell accomplished his quick-fire half-century in 9.4 overs.

RCB crossed the 100-run mark with a 4 on the ultimate ball of the tenth over. At midway level of the primary innings, RCB had a rating of 101/2 on the board.

However, RCB began to lose momentum within the 14th over as they’ve within the earlier matches. Yashasvi Jaiswal produced a sensational effort within the discipline as he despatched Faf Du Plessis again to the dugout for a rating of 62(39) following a runout. Ravichandran Ashwin adopted up shortly and picked up the wicket of Glenn Maxwell on the ultimate ball of the fifteenth over for a rating of 77(44).

In the remaining 5 overs RCB misplaced the wickets on a constant foundation. Suyash Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga and Mahipal Lomror failed to succeed in double digits as they ended up shedding their wickets of 0(2), 6(7) and eight(6) respectively. Dinesh Karthik tried to place up a battle and take RCB’s whole near the 200 run-mark, however he ended up shedding his wicket within the closing over. Sandeep Sharma produced a cheap closing over to maintain RCB’s rating beneath 200.

RCB ended their innings with a rating of 189/9 in 20 overs.