Bangalore lose to Warne-led RR

RR made a couple of changes to their playing (Mork)eleven – Shane Harwood and Siddharth Trivedi made way for Morne and Munaf Patel.

RCB made no changes to their playing eleven.

On winning the toss, Shane Warne, RR’s skipper, chose to field.

The first Powerplay of RCB’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 29, and lost three wickets.

Wasim Jaffer, whose nine-ball innings included a boundary, scored eight. Fourteen balls into the match, he was caught by Lee Carseldine. Amit Singh, the player of the match, broke the 10-run stand.

Jacques Kallis, whose 14-ball innings included a six, scored 10. Fourteen balls later, he was caught by Niraj Patel. Munaf broke the 12-run stand.

Rahul, who faced a couple of balls, D(rav)idn’t get off the mark. Seven balls later, he was caught by Naman Ojha. Carseldine broke the run-a-ball stand.

Uthappa, whose 20-ball (Rob)innings included three boundaries, scored 17. Fourteen balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Ravindra Jadeja, who broke the 11-run stand.

Ten overs into the match, the drinks break was taken. RCB had scored 49 for the loss of four wickets at that point. Both Virat Kohli and Mark Boucher had scored five apiece.

RCB scored 50 off 10.2 overs (63 balls). RR had conceded four extras at that point.

Boucher, who faced eight balls, scored half-a-dozen. Sixteen balls after Uthappa’s dismissal, Jadeja broke the 12-run stand.

Kohli, whose 22-ball innings included a boundary, scored 15. Twenty balls later, he was caught by Morkel. Jadeja broke the run-a-ball stand.

Roelof van der Merwe, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary, scored 15. Fifteen balls later, Singh broke the 13-run stand.

The eighth-wicket pair had no reason to be in seventh heaven. Although his four-ball innings included a six, Praveen Kumar had no reason to be in seventh heaven – four balls later, Morkel ran him out.

RCB scored 100 off 18.3 overs (111 balls). RR had conceded five extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Dillon du Preez, who faced 13 balls, scored 10. A dozen balls after Praveen’s dismissal, he was caught by Niraj. Singh broke the 11-run stand.

Vinay Kumar, whose 13-ball innings included a six, scored a dozen. Four balls later, Singh broke the two-run stand.

Anil Kumble, who faced a ball, was unbeaten.

RCB were bundled out for 105 off 20 overs.

Raut, who bowled (Abhish)ek wicketless over, conceded half-a-dozen.

Warne and Morkel bowled four wicketless overs apiece. While the former conceded 23, the latter conceded 20.

Carseldine, who bowled an over, conceded half-a-dozen. He was wicketless, as did Munaf, who bowled a couple of overs, conceding 16.

Jadeja, who bowled four overs, conceded 15. He picked up three wickets.

Singh, who bowled four overs, conceded 19. He picked up four scalps.

The first Powerplay of RR’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 31, and lost a wicket.

Graeme, whose 22-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 20. (Smi)Thirty-four balls into the chase, Kallis broke the 27-run stand.

The second-wicket pair put on 21. Carseldine, whose eight-ball innings included a boundary, scored nine. Eighteen balls later, Kohli and Boucher ran him out.

RR scored 50 off nine overs (54 balls). RCB hadn’t conceded any extras at that point.

Ten overs into the chase, the drinks break was taken. RR had scored 62 for the loss of a couple of wickets at that point. While Ojha had scored 26, Yusuf Pathan was in seventh heaven.

Pathan, whose 19-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 22. Thirty-one balls after Carseldine’s dismissal, he was caught by Jaffer. Du Preez broke the 43-run stand.

RR scored 100 off 14.5 overs (89 balls). RCB had conceded three extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Ojha’s half-century – which included three boundaries and as many sixes – came off 38 balls. In fact, he eventually scored 38, and was unbeaten, as was Jadeja, who faced three balls, scoring a run.

RR, who scored 107 for the loss of three wickets off 15 overs, won by seven wickets with five overs to spare.

Van der Merwe and Vinay bowled a wicketless over apiece. While the former conceded 11, the latter conceded nine.

Kumble, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded a dozen.

Praveen, who bowled four wicketless overs, conceded 31.

Du Preez, who bowled three overs, conceded 24. He picked up a wicket, as did Kallis, who bowled four overs, conceding 20.