Odeon Smith hit three sixes in the 18th over, RCB made a big mistake in the 17th over

Mumbai:In IPL 2022, Punjab Kings started with a win. Mayank Agarwal’s team defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets in their first match of the league. Playing first, Bengaluru made a big score of 205 runs. Punjab chased down the target of 206 runs for 5 wickets in the 19th over. At one point in this match, Bangalore’s team seemed to be moving towards victory, but due to the mistake of the fielder in the 17th over and then Odean Smith in the 18th over, it was defeated.

Punjab needed 44 runs in 4 overs to win. Odeon Smith was batting with Shahrukh Khan on the pitch. In the 17th over, Harshal Patel conceded just three runs in the first three balls. On the fourth ball, Smith tried to play a big shot at deep cover, but the ball went straight to Anuj Rawat, who was fielding there. It was an easy catch for him, but Anuj could not catch it and Smith got life.
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After this, in the 18th over, Smith turned the dice of the match. Punjab needed 36 runs and he hit a four in addition to three sixes against Mohammad Siraj. In this over, Punjab got a total of 25 runs including two extras. Smith hit a six off the first, third and sixth balls of the over. After this, Punjab needed only 11 runs in the last two overs, which Shahrukh Khan made in one over.

Earlier, RCB scored a big total on the basis of 88 runs from new captain Faf du Plessis and a 118-run partnership for the second wicket with former captain Virat Kohli. Du Plessis, who started his innings with a 30-ball 17, hit seven sixes and four fours in his 57-ball knock. Kohli scored 41 runs in an unbeaten innings of 29 balls with one four and two sixes. Dinesh Karthik scored an unbeaten 32 off 14 balls in the last over. He hit three fours and as many sixes.