Gambhir-led KKR triumph; Bangalore disheartened

KKR made a couple of changes to their playing eleven – Eoin Morgan and Iqbal Abdulla made way for Debabrata Das and Sachithra Senanayake.

RCB made one changes to their playing eleven – Jamaluddin Syed (Moham)made way for Abhimanyu Mithun.

On winning the toss, Gautam Gambhir, KKR’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 22, and lost a wicket.

Cheteshwar Pujara, who faced 14 balls, scored just five. Twenty-seven balls into the match, he was caught by Lakshmipathy Balaji. Senanayake broke the 15-run stand.

Virat Kohli, RCB’s skipper, faced 14 balls, scored 17. Twenty-five balls later, Jacques Kallis, the player of the match, broke the 31-run stand.

RCB scored 50 off 9.3 overs (57 balls). KKR had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Chris Gayle, whose 36-ball innings included a boundary and a six, scored 33. Twenty-seven balls after Kohli’s dismissal, he was stumped by Manvinder Bisla. Sunil Narine broke the 24-run stand.

De Villiers, whose 22-ball innings included A Boundary and a six, scored 28. Sixteen balls (Bis)later, he was caught behind. Balaji broke the 25-run stand.

Saurabh Tiwary, who faced three balls, scored a run. Three balls later, he was trapped leg before wicket by Narine, who broke the one-run stand.

RCB scored 100 off 17 overs (102 balls). KKR had conceded a couple of extras at that point.

Moises Henriques, who faced 11 balls, scored as many. Five balls after Saurabh’s dismissal, he was caught by Manoj Tiwary. Kallis broke the six-run stand.

Vinay Kumar, whose 13-ball innings included a boundary, scored 14. He was unbeaten.

Ravi Rampaul, who faced three balls, didn’t get off the mark. Narine had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he trapped him leg be‘four’ wicket.

Mithun, who faced a couple of balls, scored as many. A couple of balls later, he was caught by Manoj. Narine broke the run-a-ball stand.

Murali Kartik, who faced a ball, didn’t get off the mark. Half-a-dozen balls later, Balaji broke the four-run stand.

Jaydev Unadkat, who faced a ball, scored a run. He was unbeaten.

KKR eventually conceded three extras. RCB scored 115 for the loss of nine wickets off 20 overs.

Ryan ten Doeschate and Yusuf Pathan bowled an over apiece. While the former conceded 14, the latter conceded half-a-dozen. They were wicketless, as was Rajat Bhatia, who bowled a couple of overs, conceding 14.

Senanayake, who bowled four overs, conceded 18. He picked up a wicket.

Balaji and Kallis bowled four overs each, picking up a couple of wickets apiece. While the former conceded 22, the latter conceded 17.

Narine, who bowled four overs, conceded 22. He picked up four scalps.

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

KKR’s openers didn’t get off the mark. Bisla, who faced a couple of balls, didn’t open his account. A couple of balls into the chase, he was caught by Henriques off the bowling of Rampaul.

Gambhir, whose 15-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 14. Thirty-three balls later, he was caught by Gayle. Vinay broke the 31-run stand.

KKR scored 50 off 8.3 overs (51 balls). RCB had conceded three extras at that point.

Yusuf, whose 16-ball innings included a boundary and the only six of the innings, scored 18. Twenty-eight balls after Gambhir’s dismissal, he was trapped leg before wicket by Kartik, who broke the 30-run stand.

Kallis, whose 45-ball innings included four boundaries, scored 41. Thirty-seven balls later, he was caught by Henriques. Mithun broke the 35-run stand.   

KKR scored 100 off 16.5 overs (101 balls). RCB had conceded five extras at that point. That was, incidentally, the number of extras they eventually conceded.

Manoj, whose 27-ball innings included three boundaries, scored 24. Half-a-dozen balls later, he was caught by Kohli. Needless to say, Vinay was in seventh heaven.

Ten Doeschate, whose innings included a couple of boundaries, scored 11. He had a reason to be in seventh heaven – he was unbeaten, as was Bhatia, who faced four balls, scoring three.

KKR, who scored 116 for the loss of five wickets off 19.2 overs, won by five wickets with four balls to spare.

Unadkat, who bowled four wicketless overs, conceded 27.

Mithun, who bowled four overs, conceded 37. He picked up a wicket, as did Rampaul (whose spell included a maiden) and Kartik, who bowled four overs each, conceding 17 apiece.

Vinay, who bowled 3.2 overs, conceded 17. He picked up a couple of scalps.