5 Tricks That Went In Favour of RCB in the Eliminator - IPL8

5 Tricks That Went In Favour of RCB in the Eliminator – IPL8: The match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Rajasthan Royals had plenty to offer for the Cricket fanatics. Ultimately, the match concluded with RCB eliminating RR from the IPL to proceed through to the second Qualifier to be held in Ranchi. To make an inspective analysis of the game, let us discuss about the 5 tricks that Worked in Favour of RCB in the game. 1. Vital toss to Win: (Photo Source: BCCI) Yes indeed. In the match yesterday, RCB did the righteous thing by opting to bat first after winning the toss. They had plans of putting up a big score which would amplify the pressure for RR as they had to chase it under added pressure owing to the fact that the match being the eliminator and a high voltage one. Things went just as the doctor ordered for RCB. They won the match by 71 runs in the end. 2. Retaining Faith on Mandeep Singh: (Photo Source: BCCI) Prior to yesterday’s match, Mandeep Singh managed to fire on a single occasion against KKR to win the game for RCB. He was going through a dry patch since then but Captain Kohli retained faith in the youngster and Mandeep paid it off in blazing style by performing big in a big match. He remained unbeaten at the score of 54 runs off 34 deliveries. 3. Going for Full Attack in the Death Overs: (Photo Source: BCCI) After keeping wickets in hand till the 14th over, RCB switched on to their blistering mode at the death overs. In the middle overs, after losing Gayle and Kohli, the batsmen took minimum amount of risks and relied upon running between the wickets to keep the scoreboard ticking. But since the 14th over, they went on to hit the ball out of the park at regular intervals. As many as 86 runs were scored off the last 6 overs. 4. Short Bowling Spells: (Photo Source: BCCI) It was Virat Kohli who used all his bowlers exceedingly well. He used resources like Harshal Patel, David Wiese and Chahal and kept on making bowling changes which did not allow the RR batsmen to settle down against any of the bowlers. In fact, due to such variations, RR didn’t manage to hit a six in their entire innings. 5. Maintaining Good Length bowling: (Photo Source: BCCI) This was another ploy which paid off well for the Men in Red. Things started with Watson, when he edged a good length delivery of Arvind which was going outside off. This led to his caught behind dismissal. Also, David Wiese applied the same trick for Steve Smith and it was a good length out-swinger that deceived Smith and ultimately he was caught by de Villiers in the boundary line. The RCB bowlers didn’t allow much room for the RR batsmen and that took them to cruise control in the game.