generously tossed up on off stump, turned wide of midwicket
RCB vs Kings XI, 50th match at Bengaluru, May 18 2016 - Match Result
RCB won by 82 runs (D/L method)
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Virat Kohli is the Player of the Match for his 50-ball 113. "When all that was happening out there, I thought surely I can't get a 100 in 15 overs. I wasn't believing that it was happening. Chris, looked dangerous in the last game, he was in the zone again today. Everything is coming together. In the previous tournaments, we panicked. But hopefully we can continue what we have been doing. My main aim is to get runs, it doesn't matter how I play. Momentum is a big thing in T20s, when you get into the zone, you feel you can hit any ball. So you just want to give yourself. I didn't hit any balls because I was injured, but when I settled down, I thought I shouldn't think about my stitches. When I got the flow going, and the pain went away, I was able to play shots. T20s is just three hours a day. You still have 21 hours away, so why relax on the field? Today was a shortened game, but I was glad we got 15 overs in. We were desperate to get onto the park. It wouldn't have mattered even if it was a five-overs game. We wanted four in four, we now have three in three. So there's no reason why we can't win. We have got to that stage, where we've stopped thinking about other teams. We are just relaxed, the guys in the dugout are doing a great job. We've got the momentum now.
M Vijay: We thought 180 could have been chased down, but credit to them for the way they played. It's difficult to bowl to those two (Gayle and Kohli), and we weren't good enough today. We want to finish on a high, we will play out heart out in our last game.
Here's a look at the points table, for those asking
12:30am It's official. That's that. Third win on the trot for RCB. Believe it or not, they've jumped from No. 7 to No. 2 in a matter of six days. It didn't look like we'd have play. For two hours, Chinnaswamy was a party waiting to take off. For a while, the crowd was on tenterhooks, but when play started, they witnessed a demolition of the kind they witnessed last week against Gujarat Lions. Incredible performance this, to get 200 plus in 15 overs and then dismantle a deflated unit as easily as they did in the end. Margin of victory: 82 runs via DLS method
It has started to pour at the Chinnaswamy. Is that it?
Keshav : "Kohli's brilliance should be enough to get RCB into the knockout stages. As long as they can play a full game against Delhi and win, they should be through. Their 2 thumping recent wins will mean that no other team with 8 wins can touch them on NRR and that will not be an issue at all for them. Plus, there match against Delhi is the last one so they will be aware of exactly what their situation demands."
nicely tossed up, he looks to clear long on, ends up hitting it to the fielder on the bounce
full toss on middle and leg, worked to deep midwicket
flat hit down to long-off
in the slot for the swing, and he gets maximum elevation. Slogged across deep midwicket
fires a full ball on middle, squeezed to long on
pushed wide of Watson at cover
hit back over the bowler's head, excellent work by AB running to his left from long-off, lobbed the ball on the relay to Jordan who was running across from long-off
short, has enough width for him to crunch that to deep cover
makes room and smears it to deep cover to get off the mark
punched to Watson who fires a throw to Baby from cover, he collected the throw well to beat a desperate Mohit Sharma who was trying to lunge back into the crease. He was miles outside the crease.
gently tossed up outside off, slapped wide of cover for an easy single
Sachin Baby into the attack
Time-out
gets forward and bunts it down to long on
through with the swing even before the full toss came to him, sliced to long off
backs away and carves the full ball to sweeper cover
juicy full toss on middle, swung away one bounce between deep midwicket and long on. Looked like it slipped out of his hand
driven past the bowler to long off
defended wide of cover for an easy single
stays inside the crease to defend that full delivery back down the pitch
swings north, ball goes south. There's turn away from off stump, bounce and Gurkeerat can only get a thick edge as he looks to go over long-off as Gayle takes a comfortable catch at slip.
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M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore | |
Toss | Kings XI Punjab, elected to field first |
Series | |
Season | 2016 |
Player Of The Match | |
Hours of play (local time) | 20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.30, Interval 21.30-21.50, Second Session 21.50- 23.20 |
Match days | 18 May 2016 - night (20-over match) |
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Match Referee | |
Points | Royal Challengers Bangalore 2, Kings XI Punjab 0 |
Over 14 • KXIP 120/9
RCB won by 82 runs (D/L method)