Chasing 135 to win, Gujarat lost both openers - Ishan Kishan (16) and Brendon McCullum (3) -- to be reduced to 23-2 but Finch blasted 5 fours and 6 sixes in his scintillating 34-ball 72-run innings as the visitors romped home with 6.1 overs to spare.
Kane Williamson has amassed 410 runs from 10 games, scoring five half-centuries. His highest score has been 84.
Virat Kohli is intense and aggressive on the field but off it he is nice and welcoming, according to his Royal Challengers Bangalore teammate New Zealand pacer Kyle Jameison. The lanky pacer said the Indian skipper is extremely passionate about winning.
RCB skipper Faf du Plessis couldn't stop gushing about Patidar
Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers came good when it mattered most as Royal Challengers Bangalore finally ended their losing run, with an emphatic 8 wicket win against Kings XI Punjab.
Dismissing suggestions that Virat Kohli should open the batting in the T20 World Cup, former India opener Gautam Gambhir has firmly backed K L Rahul to do the job, saying the out-of-form batter has "probably got more ability".
Pollard has been fined 75 per cent of his match fee for throwing his bat at Starc, while the Australian fast bowler was fined 50 per cent of his match fee for "conduct contrary to the spirit of the game".
Virat Kohli and skipper Faf du Plesiss struck attacking half-centuries to guide Royal Challengers Bangalore to an easy eight-wicket win over five-time champions Mumbai Indians.
De Villiers was set to lead the side in Kohli's absence but the South African was ruled out of the team's opening game of the season on Wednesday.
Images from the IPL 2024 match between Royal Challengers Bengaluru and Kolkata Knight Riders at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday.
Royal Challengers Bangalore learnt it the hard way that star power does not always guarantee success after succumbing to the lowest ever score in the Indian Premier League (IPL) in Sunday's match against Kolkata Knight Riders.
With five consecutive defeats, bottom-placed RCB have the daunting task of winning their remaining seven games to keep their play-off prospects alive.
IMAGES from the Indian Premier League match played at Chepauk in Chennai on Saturday
Australia's limited-overs captain Aaron Finch wants the home team players to strike a fine balance when they confront Virat Kohli in the opening Test as he believes, if provoked too much, the India skipper can be ruthless against his opponents.
Former England captain Michal Vaughan talks of the power dynamics that theT20 tournament will hold, while Australia spin legend and former captain of Rajasthan Royals, Shane Warne reckons IPL makes cricket second most popular sport in the world.
Embattled Royal Challengers Bangalore, who have left themselves with little margin for error after a string of reverses, will face a test of character when they clash against Kolkata Knight Riders, in the Indian Premier League, in Bengaluru, on Sunday.
IMAGES from the IPL 2023 match played between Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai on Tuesday
Praising AB de Villiers for his 'versatility' as a batsman, India Test captain Virat Kohli on Friday said the South African maestro's defiant knock, albeit in a losing cause, in the fourth and final Test match in Delhi was a classic example of 'application' in the longer format.
If RCB win their remaining two games, they will move to 20 points and have a chance of finishing in the top two.
Faf du Plessis and Mohammed Siraj posted match-winning performances as RCB clinched a 24-run win over PBKS.
Skipper K L Rahul scored a combative 91 and young Harpreet Brar shone with bat and ball as Punjab Kings beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 34 runs in the IPL match, in Ahmedabad, on Friday.
RCB skipper Virat Kohli will join the squad on Thursday.
Images from the IPL 2023 match between Punjab Kings and Royal Challengers Bangalore on Thursday.
After a win like that, the morale of any team would be high but Delhi will need to find a way to bat well against the star studded RCB.
The Indian team for Australia classified by IPL franchise.
David Warner slammed a whirlwind 50-ball 92 to set up a comfortable 15-run win for Sunrisers Hyderabad over Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League match, in Hyderabad, on Saturday.
Royal Challengers Bangalore will be without captain Virat Kohli for at least the initial phase of the Twenty20 tournament as the India skipper recovers from a shoulder injury that forced him to miss the series-sealing final test win over Australia in Dharamsala.
IMAGES from Sunday's IPL match played between Delhi and Bangalore in New Delhi
Opener Rohit Sharma has demonstrated his leadership qualities in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and is an obvious choice to succeed Virat Kohli as India's Twenty20 captain, according to several former players.
Even as the dust settles down on IPL 9, Bikash Mohapatra/Rediff.com presents his Dream XI.
The eight Indian Premier League franchises have called off their respective pre-tournament camps till further notice, three days after the coronavirus pandemic forced a suspension of the cash-rich T20 event from March 29 to April 15. Royal Challengers Bangalore on Monday deferred their training camp, which was scheduled to begin on March 21, due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the country.
'The wicket definitely needs to be much better, even with dew it was spinning big'
RCB next takes on Gujarat Titans in Ahmedabad on Sunday before returning home against the same side on May 4.
After eight defeats in 11 outings, Chennai Super Kings will look to give their forgettable campaign a semblance of respectability when they take on in-form Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League in Dubai on Sunday.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) skipper Eoin Morgan hailed opening batsman Venkatesh Iyer for playing an unbeaten knock of 41 against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 season.
Team India possess a much more balanced squad in the shortest format.
Photos from the IPL 2022 match between Royal Challengers Bangalore v Sunrisers Hyderabad at Mumbai
Shubman Gill is having a tough initiation into Gujarat Titans captaincy, but senior batter David Miller backed him, saying the 24-year-old is increasingly "adjusting" to the role.
Former India opener Gautam Gambhir expects K L Rahul to have a stupendous IPL campaign when the T20 league resumes in the UAE on Sunday.
Brar clean-bowled Kohli and Maxwell and then set up an off-side trap to force De Villiers into trying a lofted shot without any success.
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