Butter fingers bother RCB in IPL 2021 opener

Royal Challengers Bangalore started the Indian Premier League 2021 with quite a lot of dropped catches. In the match’s opening match between RCB and Mumbai Indians, RCB dropped thrice because the Rohit Sharma-led facet made 159/9 in 20 overs.
RCB captain Virat Kohli received the toss and elected to bowl towards the defending champions on Friday however repeated dropped catches grew to become the speak on Twitter as the brand new season kickstarted.
It began within the seventeenth over when Mohammed Siraj within the assault with Ishan Kishan batting. Washington Sundar was at deep backward sq. leg, a number of yards away from the rope and regardless of the soar couldn’t assist the ball from bouncing contained in the rope. Siraj didn’t look comfortable, observing his teammate for the blunder.
However, an over later, Siraj himself dropped a sitter off Harshal Patel’s bowling. Mumbai’s Kishan pulled one and acquired a prime edge, straight round hip top for Siraj at deep backward sq. leg however he was too tender on the fingers and it popped out.
It grew to become a comedy of errors when the captain himself dropped a catch and regarded to have harm himself. Krunal Pandya smashed it laborious, Kohli moved to the left, tried to go reverse cup type and spilled the catch. The ball burst by way of his fingers and hit him on the face, just below his proper eye. RCB followers have to be relieved to see Kohli persevering with to play, regardless that he shifted his place.

When you drop the catch, you drop the match !#MIvsRCB
— Kapil 🏹 🚜 (@apwaadi) April 9, 2021

RCB and drop catches. Is there a greater love story? #MIvsRCB
— Sourav Pahuja (@SouravPahuja2) April 9, 2021

Virat kohli and drop catch are higher love story than Twlight. #MIvsRCB
— Stranger (@StrangerMR7) April 9, 2021

every time gamers drop catch rcb followers :#MIvsRCB #IPL pic.twitter.com/fdgVRdUPiy
— Aman Rao (@amanrao38772603) April 9, 2021

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Catch taken – 2Catch Drop – 4
Today Game #MIvsRCB #IPL2021
— IPL2021 💃💃#IPL2021 (@MSDianGANG) April 9, 2021
Medium pacer Patel was the wrecker-in-chief for RCB, ending with the wonderful figures of 5/27. Opener Chris Lynn top-scored for defending champions MI with a 35-ball 49 on the MA Chidambaram Stadium.
Suryakumar Yadav contributed 31 off 23 balls whereas Kishan made 28 in solely 19 deliveries. Mohammed Siraj gave away simply 22 runs in his quota of 4 overs.
Playing XI:
MI: Rohit Sharma (captain), Chris Lynn, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan (wk), Hardik Pandya, Kieron Pollard, Krunal Pandya, Marco Jansen, Jayant Yadav, Trent Boult, Jasprit Bumrah
RCB: Virat Kohli (captain), Rajat Patidar, AB de Villiers (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Daniel Christian, Washington Sundar, Kyle Jamieson, Shahbaz Ahmed Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.