Shimron Hetmyer (75) and Gurkeerat Singh (65) forged a 144-run stand for the fourth wicket to help Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) end their IPL 2019 campaign on a winning note. The duo notched 🍸up half-centuries to power RCB to a four-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderab🐼ad (SRH) at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium on Saturday.
SRH will have to wait until Sunday – for the result of MI vs KKR clash at the Wankhede – to see if they have qualified for the playoffs.
Earlier, Kane Williamson (70 not out) led from the f𒐪ront as the Orange army posted 175/7 in a must-win encounter against Virat Kohli and Co.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
It's important that other people also contribute and since we have seen the contribution today, we saw RCB getting past the line
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
What explains playing with three overseas players when Hetmeyer was sitting on the bench?? Understandable when four overseas were available and he wasn’t one of them after the first few games…
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
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Lads, you're not just Challengers, you're champions! 😍😍😍
— Royal Challengers Bengaluru (@RCBTweets)
Century partnerships for RCB n𝔉ot involving any of Kohli, Gayle and ABD in the IPL:
144 – Shimron Hetmyer/Gurkeerat Singh, 4th wkt v SRH, 2019
126* – Jacques Kallis/Robin Uthappa, 2nd wkt v MI, 2009— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats)
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All of Kolkata and 💜will be rooting fo♛r Shimron Hetmyer.
— Shashank Kishore (@captainshanky)
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Exactly…😍😝😂😂
— Maari Balaji ツ (@MaariBalaji09)
Man of the match, Shimron Hetmyer!
— betvisa69.com (@CricketTimesHQ)
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And the Vivo perfect catch of the match goes to Cameraman⛄💎 for catching this beauty with his camera!— Rahul Tyagi (@rahulastic)
Cameraman on Strike..
— RVCJ Media (@RVCJ_FB)
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