After RCB's first win, Marcus Stoneynas said - I told De Villiers that I

After winning the RCB match, Marcus Stoneynas said, "I told De Villiers that he is probably the best batsman of our generation and he did it today." I recently told the team coach Gary Kirsten as a joke. Was that I went on a tour and brought two points for the team from there, the good thing is that we got those points today. "
Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kings XI Punjab by 8 wickets in the match played in Mohali on Saturday and won the first win in this season. Batting first in this match, Punjab scored a score of 173-4, thanks to Chris Gayle's 99. With the help of Kohli and De Villiers in reply, Bangalore won the match by losing two wickets in 19.2 overs. De Villiers was adjudged Man of the Match for his fierce half-century.
Gale and Rahul started a good start to the Punjab team in the match. Both added 66 runs in 6.2 overs for the first wicket. Rahul scored 18 runs in 15 balls. He hit two fours and a six. After him, Mayank Agarwal played Gayle with him but he could not even wait for long. After this, the wicket continued to drop in the interval from the other end but the good thing was that Gayle kept on till the end. Gayle remained unbeaten on 99 runs in 64 balls. He made 10 fours and 5 sixes. In this way his team scored a score of 173-4. Mohammed Siraj proved to be very expensive and he hit a wicket by 54 runs in 4 overs.



In reply to the target, Bangalore got the first blow to Parthiv Patel on 43 in the fourth over. Patel scored 19 runs in 9 balls. During this time he scored 4 fours. De Villiers and Kohli then added 85 runs for the second wicket. Kohli scored 67 runs in 53 balls. He scored 8 boundaries. De Villiers remained unbeaten till end and scored 59 runs in 38 balls. He scored 5 fours and 2 sixes. Marcus Stuyence scored 28 runs in 16 balls and during this 4 fours. In this way RCB scored a score of 174-2 and won the match by 8 wickets.