Fired-up Royal Challengers Bangalore hand Lucknow Super Giants their third home defeat on the trot

After Sunday’s two high-scoring thrillers, Royal Challengers Bangalore secured an 18 run win over Lucknow Super Giants on Monday in a low-scoring contest, which witnessed only 234 runs and as many as 19 wickets.

RCB move up to the fifth spot with this win whereas LSG, also on 10 points but placed third owing to a super NRR, slip to their third consecutive home defeat.

Brief Scores:

Royal Challengers Bangalore 126/9 in 20 overs (Faf du Plessis 44, Virat Kohli 31; Naveen ul Haq 3-30, Ravi Bishnoi 2-21) beat Lucknow Super Giants 108 in 19.5 overs (K Gowtham 23, Amit Mishra 19; Josh Hazlewood 2-15, Karn Sharma 2-20) by 18 runs