{"id":859689,"date":"2025-07-02T22:12:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/shepherd-one-step-away-from-ipl-glory\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T22:12:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T03:12:01","slug":"shepherd-one-step-away-from-ipl-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/02\/shepherd-one-step-away-from-ipl-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd one step away from IPL glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>NEW CHANDIGARH, India:<\/p>\n<p>Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), with West Indian all-rounder Romario Shepherd, stormed into their first Indian Premier League (IPL) final since 2016 with a dominant eight-wicket victory over Punjab Kings in New Chandigarh on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Kings crumbled to 101 all out in just 14.1 overs, with RCB&#8217;s bowlers running riot. Spinner Suyash Sharma and seamer Josh Hazlewood starred with three wickets each, dismantling the Kings&#8217; line-up early.<\/p>\n<p>After losing four wickets in the powerplay with just 38 runs on the board, the Kings never recovered and stumbled over the 100-run mark, with only Marcus Stoinis, with 26, offering brief resistance.<\/p>\n<p>Shepherd sent down just one over, which went for just five runs, as he claimed the wicket of number nine batter Harpreet Brar, who was bowled for four.<\/p>\n<p>In reply, opener Phil Salt smashed an unbeaten 56 off just 27 balls, including six fours and three sixes, to guide his side home in a mere 10 overs.<\/p>\n<p>Rajat Patidar sealed the emphatic win with a six off the final ball, securing RCB&#8217;s place in Tuesday&#8217;s final, the biggest victory by balls remaining in IPL playoff history.<\/p>\n<p>Kings, who topped the league stage, now face a must-win eliminator against the winners of Friday&#8217;s clash between Gujarat Titans and Mumbai Indians, for a shot at the title.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; CMC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jamaica-star.com\/article\/sports\/20250530\/shepherd-one-step-away-ipl-glory-rcb-crush-punjab-kings-reach-final\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW CHANDIGARH, India: Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), with West Indian all-rounder Romario Shepherd, stormed into their first Indian Premier League (IPL) final since 2016 with a dominant eight-wicket victory over Punjab Kings in New Chandigarh on Thursday. The Kings crumbled to 101 all out in just 14.1 overs, with RCB&#8217;s bowlers running riot. Spinner Suyash<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":859690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2331,1138],"tags":[8132,12119],"class_list":{"0":"post-859689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glory","8":"category-shepherd","9":"tag-glory","10":"tag-shepherd"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/859690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}