Virat Kohli led from the front with a breathtaking unbeaten 93 as Royal
Challengers Bangalore made short work of a challenging target from
Sunrisers Hyderabad winning by seven wickets in a Pepsi Indian Premier
League match on Tuesday.
Chasing a commendable target of 162, Kohli made a mockery of Sunrisers bowlers, as he single handedly guided his team to victory smashing 11 four and four sixes off 47 balls as they knocked off the runs with 14 balls remaining.
It was a sweet revenge for RCB who had lost to Sunrisers in a ‘Super Over’ two days back.
The match swung decisively in RCB’s favour in the 16th over bowled by Amit Mishra after ‘Strategic Time-Out’ where Kohli smashed the bulky leggie for 21 runs.
This included to straight sixes. In the next Thisara Perera over he got another 16 runs to close in on the match and couple of boundaries from Ishant sealed the issue.
Ishant got the big wicket of Chris Gayle (13) as he bowled one that moved a shade after pitching and the Jamaican nicked it to Parthiv Patel behind the stumps.
Kohli’s first scoring stroke was six over mid-wicket off Perera. Along with AB de Villiers, he added 49 runs but the South African failed to clear the fence off a rank long hop from leggie Cameron White as gave a simple catch to Hanuma at deep mid-wicket fence.
Earlier, Cameron White and Perera’s slambang approach during the final five overs saw Sunrisers Hyderabad reach a competitive 161 for six.
White and Perera added 80 runs in only 7.2 overs to take the new IPL franchise to a comfortable position. While White clobbered three fours and three sixes in his 34-ball-52, Perera hit four huge sixes and a four in his knock of 40 which came off only 24 balls.
The last six overs of the innings produced a whopping 77 runs as Sunrisers had scored only 84 in their first 14 overs.
Earlier on Monday, Rajsthan Royals handed Kolkata Knight Riders their first defeat of the campaign when they beat the holders by 19 runs. Batting first, Royals rode on Brad Hodge’s unbeaten 46 to post 144 before their bowlers dismissed the visitors for 125 in 19 overs for the their second win in as many matches in the season.
Chasing a commendable target of 162, Kohli made a mockery of Sunrisers bowlers, as he single handedly guided his team to victory smashing 11 four and four sixes off 47 balls as they knocked off the runs with 14 balls remaining.
It was a sweet revenge for RCB who had lost to Sunrisers in a ‘Super Over’ two days back.
The match swung decisively in RCB’s favour in the 16th over bowled by Amit Mishra after ‘Strategic Time-Out’ where Kohli smashed the bulky leggie for 21 runs.
This included to straight sixes. In the next Thisara Perera over he got another 16 runs to close in on the match and couple of boundaries from Ishant sealed the issue.
Ishant got the big wicket of Chris Gayle (13) as he bowled one that moved a shade after pitching and the Jamaican nicked it to Parthiv Patel behind the stumps.
Kohli’s first scoring stroke was six over mid-wicket off Perera. Along with AB de Villiers, he added 49 runs but the South African failed to clear the fence off a rank long hop from leggie Cameron White as gave a simple catch to Hanuma at deep mid-wicket fence.
Earlier, Cameron White and Perera’s slambang approach during the final five overs saw Sunrisers Hyderabad reach a competitive 161 for six.
White and Perera added 80 runs in only 7.2 overs to take the new IPL franchise to a comfortable position. While White clobbered three fours and three sixes in his 34-ball-52, Perera hit four huge sixes and a four in his knock of 40 which came off only 24 balls.
The last six overs of the innings produced a whopping 77 runs as Sunrisers had scored only 84 in their first 14 overs.
Earlier on Monday, Rajsthan Royals handed Kolkata Knight Riders their first defeat of the campaign when they beat the holders by 19 runs. Batting first, Royals rode on Brad Hodge’s unbeaten 46 to post 144 before their bowlers dismissed the visitors for 125 in 19 overs for the their second win in as many matches in the season.
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