Ahmedabad, April 24
The following is the
scoreboard of the Indian Premier League (IPL) match between Rajasthan
Royals and Royal Challengers Bangalore at the Sardar Patel Stadium here
on Friday:
Rajasthan Royals
Ajinkya Rahane lbw b Patel 18
Shane Watson c Starc b Chahal 26
Steven Smith c Karthik b Starc 31
Karun Nair run out (Patel/Kohli) 16
Deepak Hooda b Iqbal Abdulla 1
Sanju Samson b Chahal 4
Stuart Binny c Wiese b Starc 20
James Faulkner c Karthik b Patel 4
Chris Morris not out 3
Dhawal Kulkarni b Starc 1
Pravin Tambe not out 2
Extras (lb 1, w 3) 4
Total (nine wickets in 20 overs) 130
Fall
of wickets: 1-36 (Rahane, 4.6 overs), 2-46 (Watson, 5.4), 3-72 (Nair,
9.5), 4-84 (Hooda, 11.2), 5-89 (Samson, 12.4), 6-119 (Smith, 17.1),
7-121 (Binny, 17.5), 8-126 (Faulkner, 18.5), 9-127 (Kulkarni, 19.1)
Bowling
Mitchell Starc 4-0-22-3
Iqbal Abdulla 4-0-28-1
Harshal Patel 4-0-23-2
Yuzvendra Chahal 3.1-0-25-2
David Wiese 4-0-27-0
Virat Kohli 0.5-0-4-0
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Chris Gayle c Samson b Watson 20
Virat Kohli not out 62
AB de Villiers not out 47
Extras (lb 5) 5
Total (one wicket in 16.1 overs) 134
Fall of wickets: 1-36 (Gayle, 4.3 overs)
Bowling
Chris Morris 3-0-23-0
Dhawal Kulkarni 4-0-26-0
Shane Watson 3-0-23-1
James Faulkner 2-0-17-0
Pravin Tambe 4-0-36-0
Deepak Hooda 0.1-0-4-0
RCB thrash Rajasthan Royals by nine wickets in IPL
An overall sturdy team
performance from the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) helped them beat
table-toppers Rajasthan Royals by nine wickets in an Indian Premier
League (IPL) match at the Sardar Patel Stadium here on Friday.
Chasing
a meagre target of 131, the Royal Challengers reached home with nine
wickets in hand and 3.5 overs to spare with skipper Virat Kohli (62 not
out) scoring an unbeaten half-century.
It was a steady chase from
the visitors with Kohli hitting three sixes and one boundary in his
45-ball innings. He was well supported by big-hitting AB de Villiers (47
not out), who together put up an unbeaten 98-run stand for the second
wicket.
Earlier, explosive left-handed opener Chris Gayle had scored 20 before he was caught behind in the fifth over.
Royals
skipper Shane Watson was the only wicket-taking bowler, clinching the
West Indian's wicket as his bowlers were left with a small target to
defend.
Earlier, a strict bowling performance from the Royals Challengers helped them restrict the Royals to only 130/9 from 20 overs.
Kohli
opted to field and utilised his bowlers to the optimum. The bowlers,
spinners and pacers alike, backed their captain with most of them
picking up wickets at regular intervals, which never let any partnership
going for the host team.
Left-arm pacer Mitchell Starc, who was
named Player of the Tournament in the recently concluded 50-over World
Cup, was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets, giving away only 22
runs from his four overs.
Australian Starc was backed by medio
Harshal Patel (2/23) and leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal (2/25), who picked
up two wickets each, while slow left-arm orthodox bowler Iqbal Abdulla
took 1/28.
No Royals batsman got going which resulted in the
paltry total. Steven Smith (31), Watson (26) and all-rounder Stuart
Binny (20) got starts but none were able to propel the run rate.
Opener Ajinkya Rahane and Karun Nair contributed with 18 and 16, respectively, before walking back to the pavilion.
