In the last two games played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium T20, running 836 in 78.3 overs are done. Fans of Royal Challengers, however, do not worry about the appalling lack of challenge for the batsmen. Their home team has reached the finals of the Champions League, chasing down another 200-plus games in a row.
New South Wales was the most things right today, after Daniel Vettori added. Australian bowlers in the side of self-making 203-2 in Bangalore. David Warner impressive 123 (68b), and his power-packed 146-run stand for the batsman wicketkeeper Daniel Smith set the tone for the day.
The times when bats are difficult, the boundaries are short, and the bowlers are masochistic creatures that exist only to punish the individual in the face makes a huge difference. So it was today. Tillakaratne Dilshan RCB has bowled his four overs for just 10 - a fine achievement for a game with 26 sixes and 34 shorts were fired.
Bangalore was a recurrent theme during the Chase, when Patrick Cummins' three wickets in four balls in Bangalore gave scare. Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle had his legs NSW neck. Gayle (92 off 41b, 8x6, 8x4) almost became the first batsman to score four hundred T20, and added 141 of only 66 balls Virat Kohli (84, 49B, 10x4, 3x6), who led them home.
Young Seamen Cummins, barely out of school, was admitted to a second 22 In his third, he removed Gayle LBW is marginal, and then beat Saurabh Tiwary high back with a quick lift Yorker. He had a hat-trick of a ball, Mayank Agarwal, with the release of a suspect caught in the net.
Cummins' first 16 balls went 1-42, the last of his eight-ball, he was 3-3. A couple of quiet overs left before Kohli shot a panic situation in Bangalore, Mitchell Starc took 16 of the 18 above. It was a simple nuisance thereon.The thing about today's game is that most of the sixes are 26 small businesses, especially in Bangalore in the hunt. Kohli Gayle and consistently hit them back several rows. In one case, Gayle cleared the roof.
Smith had much to say that he was behind the stumps while batting. Aravind Sreenath gave him a mouthful when he went out. During the chase, Gayle had to intervene to break the dispute between Smith and Kohl, who was very eloquent today, celebrating his pants sixes and punching the air.
Warner's brutal innings made it the first occasion of a batsman making back-to-back hundreds in T20 cricket. Three days ago in Chennai, his unbeaten 135 had knocked the defending champions Super Kings out of the tournament.He had struck eight sixes and 11 fours there. Today, the short boundaries of the Chinnaswamy Stadium proved no challenge for him.Warner's Australian counterpart Dirk Nannes and Aravind were singled out for punishment. Warner went after nearly everything they'd bowled at him. Nannes conceded 36 off 15 balls to him and Aravind 39 off 15.
