Suyash Sharma Takes 20 Dot Balls in RCB Win Over DC

Suyash Sharma bowled 20 dot balls and took one wicket as RCB beat DC by 9 wickets at Arun Jaitley Stadium on Monday. The leg spinner’s spell also set a new IPL record and gave RCB the most dot balls by one of their bowlers in a single match.

Suyash Sharma at Arun Jaitley Stadium

He finished with 4 overs for 7 runs, did not concede a boundary and dismissed Kuldeep Yadav. The spell included a maiden over and left DC unable to break the squeeze once RCB’s attack had taken control.

RCB’s Tight Opening Spell

Josh Hazlewood and Bhuvneshwar Kumar set the tone early, with DC slipping to 8-6 in the first 6 overs. That gave Sharma a platform to attack with control rather than chase the game, and he used it to stack dot balls across the innings.

The 20-dot-ball mark moved past the previous IPL record held by Ravichandran Ashwin and Yuzvendra Chahal. It also equaled the mark once set by Deepak Chahar, while Harshal Patel’s RCB record for the most dot balls by a team bowler in one IPL game fell in the same match.

Harshal Patel’s RCB Mark

For RCB, the number is the cleanest measure of the win. Four overs for 7 runs with 1 wicket already read as a strong outing; 20 dot balls turns it into a record-setting one, and it came in a match where the bowling side kept DC at 8-6 early before the chase finished with a 9-wicket result.

What changes for RCB now is the shape of the bowling conversation. Sharma has a match that stands beside the top dot-ball spells in IPL history, and he did it in a game RCB controlled from the first overs at Arun Jaitley Stadium.