Proud of our bold style of cricket, Du Plessis says

Faf du Plessis was buoyed by the new-found aggression in Royal Challengers Bengaluru's approach as they beat Delhi Capitals by 47 runs to keep themselves in contention for the IPL 2024 play-offs.

Du Plessis said:

"We want to play that style of cricket - RCB talks about playing bold, and just proud that we can actually do that now, putting our performance together."

RCB went into the game knowing that defeat would knock them out of the tournament. They even had du Plessis and Virat Kohli out cheaply after their dismissal. Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar, however, weren't to be denied a counter-attacking stand of 88 runs for the third wicket. In the end, they finished on 187 for 9.

RCB took control of the chase by reducing Capitals to 30 for 4 in the space of four overs. Left-arm fingerspinner Swapnil Singh dismissed David Warner in the first over before Mohammed Siraj and Yash Dayal settled in with testing lines and lengths. Lockie Ferguson's 2 for 23 helped them keep the scoring in check in the middle overs, although Axar Patel struck back with a half-century.