Virat Kohli and Phil Salt made a rasping start for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru with an opening stand of 52 after visitors Delhi Capitals opted to bowl first in their Tata IPL match at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Saturday afternoon.
Lungi Ngidi ended the partnership with the first delivery of the sixth over when Kohli sliced a trademark slower ball to deep cover to depart for 19 from 13 balls but Englishman Salt was storming along at 36* from 22 balls in the company of Devdutt Padikkal with the total on 59-1 at the end of the Power Play.
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ROYAL CHALLENGERS BENGALURU: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt, Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar (captain), Jitesh Sharma (wkt), Tim David, Romario Shepherd, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood
Impact subs: Rasikh Salam Dar, Venkatesh Iyer, Jordan Cox, Mangesh Yadav, Vicky Ostwal
DELHI CAPITALS: Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (wkt), Sameer Rizvi, Axar Patel (captain), David Miller, Tristan Stubbs, Auqib Nabi Dar, Lungi Ngidi, Kuldeep Yadav, T Natarajan, Mukesh Kumar
Impact subs: Vipraj Nigam, Ashutosh Sharma, Karun Nair, Dushmantha Chameera, Nitish Rana