Rain, Kohli-led RCB beat Kolkata

RCB made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Tillakaratne Dilshan and Abrar Kazi made way for Luke Pomersbach and Abhimanyu Mithun.

KKR made no changes to their playing eleven.

On winning the toss, Virat Kohli, RCB’s skipper, chose to field.

Owing to rain, the match was reduced to a 13-overs-a-side match.

The first Powerplay of KKR’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the sixth over. They scored 33, and lost three wickets.

Morgan, who faced five balls, scored just a couple. Fifteen balls (Eo)into the match, he was caught by Pomersbach. Zaheer Khan broke the run-a-ball stand.

Jacques Kallis, whose 14-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 17. Eight balls later, he was caught by Arun Karthik. Charl Langeveldt broke the six-run stand.

Although his nine-ball innings included a boundary, Gautam Gambhir, KKR’s skipper, had no reason to be in seventh heaven – 10 balls later, he was caught by A B de Villiers. Sreenath Aravind broke the nine-run stand.  

KKR scored 50 off 9.1 overs (55 balls). RCB had conceded three extras at that point.

Eleven overs into the match, there was an interruption due to rain. KKR had scored 69 for the loss of three wickets at that point. While Manoj Tiwary had scored a dozen, Yusuf Pathan was batting on 38.

The fourth-wicket pair put on 50 off 37 balls. While Tiwary’s contribution to the partnership was 14, Pathan’s contribution to it was 35. Extras’ contribution to the partnership was a couple.

Tiwary, whose 24-ball innings included a boundary, eventually scored 19. He was unbeaten.

Pathan, whose 24-ball innings included a couple of boundaries and three sixes, eventually scored 36. Forty-one balls after Gambhir’s dismissal, he was caught by Abhimanyu Mithun. Langeveldt broke the 53-run partnership.

Mark Boucher, who faced a couple of balls, scored a run. He was unbeaten.

The number of extras they eventually conceded gave KKR no reason to be in seventh heaven. KKR scored 89 for the loss of four wickets off 13 overs.

Kohli and Chris Gayle (the player of the match) bowled a wicketless over apiece. While the former conceded 14, the latter conceded 11.

Mithun, who bowled a couple of wicketless overs, conceded 14.

Aravind and Khan bowled three overs each, picking up a wicket apiece. While the former conceded 18, the latter conceded 17.

Langeveldt, who bowled three overs, conceded 10. He picked up a couple of scalps.

RCB’s target was reduced to 102 off 13 overs.

The first Powerplay of RCB’s innings – which was the mandatory Powerplay – was between the first and the fourth over. They scored 50, and lost a wicket.

Gayle, whose 12-ball innings included half-a-dozen boundaries and a couple of sixes, scored 38. Sixteen balls into the chase, he was caught by Kallis. Brett Lee broke the 44-run stand.

RCB scored 50 off four overs (24 balls). KKR had conceded an extra at that point.

Pomersbach, whose 14-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 16. Nineteen balls after Gayle’s dismissal, he was caught by Jaydev Unadkat. Kallis broke the 21-run stand.

Kohli, whose run-a-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 15. Ten balls later, he was caught by Boucher. Needless to say, Kallis was in seventh heaven.

De Villiers, whose run-a-ball innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 13. He was unbeaten.

The 10^th over of RCB’s innings – bowled by Lakshmipathy Balaji – was a five-ball over. It was called by South African umpire Rudi Koertzen.

Mohammad Kaif, whose 13-ball innings included a boundary, scored 15. Nineteen balls after de Villiers’ dismissal, he was caught by Rajat Bhatia. Unadkat broke the 23-run stand.

Karthik, whose faced a couple of balls, scored a run. Three (Iq)balls later, he was caught by Unadkat. Abdulla broke the one-run stand.

RCB scored 100 off a dozen overs (71 balls). KKR had conceded half-a-dozen extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

The sixth-wicket pair put on five. Saurabh Tiwary, who faced five balls, scored a run. Gambhir had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he ran him out.

Mithun, who did not face a ball, was unbeaten.

RCB, who scored 105 for the loss of half-a-dozen wickets off 12.3 overs, won by four wickets with three balls to spare under the Duckworth/Lewis method.

Balaji, who bowled nine wicketless overs, conceded 10.

Unadkat, who bowled a couple of overs, conceded 30. He picked up a wicket, as did Lee and Abdulla, who bowled three overs apiece. While the former conceded 31, the latter conceded 18.

Kallis, who bowled three overs, conceded 16. He picked up a couple of scalps.