IPL 2023: Phil Salt’s 87 guides Delhi Capitals to seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore

It’s taken them some time but Delhi Capitals finally came up with a statement performance and comfortably defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, Delhi. David Warner and Co registered a resounding seven wicket win over Faf Du Plessis-led RCB with 20 balls to spare.

The encounter between the two sides eventually boiled down to backing a player to come good, eventually. While Mahipal Lomror (54 off 29) did that for RCB, who backed him to come good through the season, DC took a punt on Phil Salt after replacing Prithvi Shaw. It was the Englishman’s 87 off 45 that trumped Lomror’s first IPL fifty.

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Having won the toss, RCB’s foundation was laid by yet another solid opening partnership of 81 runs between Virat Kohli and Faf Du Plessis. After the captain’s dismissal in the eleventh over, Kohli tried to hold an end for RCB even as Glenn Maxwell was dismissed for a duck. However, Lomror played a fine innings to propel RCB to a competitive 181/4.

In the chase, the opening duo of Salt and Warner kept up with the chase before the latter was dismissed with...

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