On March 25, the important match of the Indian Premier League 2024 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Punjab Kings at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Royal Challengers Bangalore won this match by four wickets. All the players from Royal Challengers Bangalore performed very well in this match and played an important role in the victory of their team.

However, after the match was over, Punjab Kings captain Shikhar Dhawan made a big revelation about why his team had to face defeat against RCB. Let us tell you, while batting first, Punjab Kings had scored 176 runs losing six wickets in 20 overs. Captain Shikhar Dhawan had contributed 45 runs on behalf of the team. While chasing the target, RCB got a big lease of life in the very first over.

Jonny Bairstow, standing at first slip, dropped the catch of Virat Kohli. When this catch was missed, Virat Kohli had not even opened his account. However, after this Kohli did not look back and played a valuable inning of 77 runs in 49 balls against Punjab Kings. After the match was over, Shikhar Dhawan said that if we had caught Virat, we would have won the match. We dropped the catch and paid the price for it.

In the match presentation after the end of the match, Shikhar Dhawan said, ‘Virat scored 70 runs and we dropped the catch of a class player, which we regretted a lot. If we had taken the catch, we would have won the match but it did not happen and we had to pay the price for it.

I played a little slow: Shikhar Dhawan

Regarding his batting, Shikhar Dhawan said, ‘It was a very good match. We made a comeback in the match but still lost. I felt that our team had scored 10 to 15 runs less. I played a little slowly in the first six overs. If I had played a little faster, we would have scored a little more runs.

Regarding Harpreet Brar, Shikhar Dhawan said, ‘He bowled very well, especially against left-handed batsmen. He completely removed the pressure and the young spinner also took two important wickets.