17.5 -
Harshal Patel to T Perera, FOUR, oh Perera! That bat of yours. Full toss alright, but this was a drive in free fall. Thumps it through extra cover and the ball blazed off the turf
17.4 -
Harshal Patel to T Perera, FOUR, gully cricket. Full toss delivered to start with, Perera swings it to deep mid-wicket where Mandeep has to run across....gets there...looks like...but he doesn't. Blinded by light? Rusted by bench-warming? Figure out. Almost ends up catching thin air when the ball drops in front of him and rolls away
17.3 -
Harshal Patel to T Perera, FOUR, it will do. Anything will do. Dhawan will do. Tries to go big over cover, gets an outside edge and it runs to the third man fence. Luck, where were you?
16.1 -
Watson to R Bhatia, FOUR, Bhatia isn't slow...with the bat. Gets a short wide one, gets on his toes and uses a high bat to thrash it with a cut. Over backward point and to the fences
14.1 -
Tabraiz Shamsi to Dhoni, FOUR, googly dropped short, Dhoni pounced on it. All flat-footed. All bottom hand into it. Crashed it through extra cover
13.0 -
Watson to Rahane, FOUR, that's what I take out of my house every morning - garbage. Slower ball-turned-full toss down leg, Rahane swivels and flicks it uppishly through backward square leg. An 8-run over won't do, Pune!
10.4 -
Tabraiz Shamsi to Rahane, FOUR, under the short fine leg's dive and it's a four! Tripe ball. Flatter down leg, Rahane punishes it with a tickling sweep
9.0 -
Tabraiz Shamsi to Dhoni, FOUR, splays it on the pads of Dhoni and he tickles it fine to beat the fielder at short fine leg. Given as runs so Dhoni did get some bat on it. An expensive over from Bangalore's point of view
8.4 -
Tabraiz Shamsi to Rahane, FOUR, this is one way of dealing with him. Gets on one knee and sweeps it, bisects the fielder at deep mid-wicket and deep backward square leg
8.0 -
Binny to Rahane, FOUR, this is delicate from Rahane, too cute! Almost let it go and then opened the blade to roll it into the third man fence, played this late cut quite close to his body
7.3 -
Binny to Rahane, FOUR, yorkers do not deserve that treatment. But T20s werenever for the bowler, off cutter yorker and Rahane wanted to work it away, got it off the inside edge and it rocketed to the fine leg fence
4.2 -
Harshal Patel to Dhoni, FOUR, full face of the bat from Mahi and that has fetched him a four. Drives it on the up, in fact push-drove this overpitched delivery, no chance for the fielder at mid-off
3.2 -
Kane Richardson to Rahane, FOUR, short and wide, Rahane accepts it gleefully, cuts it past the fielder at cover. There was a chase given by two fielders, neither reached in time
2.2 -
Harshal Patel to Smith, FOUR, splays it on the pads of Smith and that is bread and butter for him. Gets across and flicks it through backward square leg
0.4 -
Binny to Rahane, FOUR, there is hardly anyone better than Rahane in India when the ball comes nicely onto the bat. Length ball on off and Rahane drove it on the up, beat the dive from the fielder at mid-off
0.2 -
Binny to Rahane, FOUR, just a gentle push and that will do. Did not try to hit that hard, just waited for the ball and let his arms take over, found gap to the left of mid-off
18.0 -
Harshal Patel to T Perera, SIX, a six! Who would have thought? *Kohli is having jitters* Gets a full ball, takes on the invitation to get under it and does it ever so brutally. Swung with disdain over long-on
17.1 -
Harshal Patel to R Bhatia, SIX, length ball - you eternal saviour. You don't need to do much. Gets low, slogs it across the line and murders it for 76 meters with an arc over long-on
16.3 -
Watson to T Perera, SIX, no Watson, you don't bowl that. To Perera. Short ball, sitting up pretty at Watson's pace and Perera had to just swivel on the pull through square leg
15.0 -
Tabraiz Shamsi to T Perera, SIX, why would you give the width on this one? Flatter outside off, Perera slogs across the line and deposits it into the deep mid-wicket orbit
19.4 -
Kane Richardson to Murugan Ashwin, out Caught by de Villiers!! de Villiers is a freak. He is cricket's Elon Musk and his bat is a SpaceX. And his fielding...well...I don't know. Just an off-pace delivery outside off, Ashwin looks to loft it downtown. Only intent, no timing and result is a mistimed shot wide of long-off. ABD is running across...he's quick...he loses the sight of the ball...turns 360 degress...still is able to spot the ball...and catches it with a smile. Oh ABD, where do you get all that from? Murugan Ashwin c de Villiers b Kane Richardson 0(1)
19.3 -
Kane Richardson to R Bhatia, out Caught by Watson!! This is the game, if it wasn't already. Slow short ball that never arrives. Bhatia was on the front foot waiting for it, waits a little longer than he should have and then skewed the pull off the inner half to backward square leg. R Bhatia c Watson b Kane Richardson 21(11) [4s-1 6s-1]
18.5 -
Watson to Ashwin, out Caught by Harshal Patel!! Ashwin departs too. 21 runs needed off 7 balls. Not impossible. Watson bowls it slow on back of a length, asks Ashwin to manufacture power on the slog but Ashwin has none. Finds deep mid-wicket to perfection. Ashwin c Harshal Patel b Watson 0(1)
18.3 -
Watson to T Perera, out Caught by Mandeep!! People who breathed a sigh of relief: Kohli, de Villiers, Vettori and the all of Bengaluru. Was looking to smack a length ball, gets it off base of the bat that pops all the way to extra cover. The bat turned courtesy all the desperate power and that was the undoing. Went too hard and paid the price. T Perera c Mandeep b Watson 34(13) [4s-3 6s-3]
15.5 -
Harshal Patel to Dhoni, out Caught by de Villiers!! The width has gobbled Dhoni up. He's not Sehwag, afterall. Anyway, a wrist-roll wide of off, Dhoni had to reach out, managed it off the toe-end as he threw his bat at it and the long-off runs in an arc to pouch that. Good catch. Inches inside the rope as ABD had to turn back to have a look at where his boot was. Dhoni c de Villiers b Harshal Patel 41(38) [4s-3]
14.4 -
Tabraiz Shamsi to Rahane, out Stumped!! That's uglier than my handwriting. Why Rahane? Charges out early for the cross-batted heave ho, Tabraiz Shamsi shortens the length on this googly and fizzles it past his outside edge. Keeper latches on and lights the LEDs. Tabraiz Shamsi gets out his steering wheel celebration to mark the moment. Rahane st Rahul b Tabraiz Shamsi 60(46) [4s-8]
2.3 -
Harshal Patel to Smith, out Smith Run Out!! Slower delivery and Smith missed the flick, there was a huge appeal for an lbw by the bowler. However, the umpire denied it. In the meantime, while the appeal drama was unfolding, Smith wanted to steal a single but slipped as he was sent back by Rahane. It was enough for Kohli to cash in, who from point underarmed a direct hit at striker's end to catch him short on the dive. Smith run out (Kohli) 4(3) [4s-1]
1.4 -
Kane Richardson to du Plessis, out Caught by Harshal Patel!! Richardson has made the first incision. This the start BLR wanted. du Plessis got too ambitious and has to walk back. Wanted to force this length ball over mid-off, the bat turned in his hand and spooned it low towards the fielder at mid-off, who took a good catch moving to his right. Now this 185 will start looking bigger than what it is. du Plessis c Harshal Patel b Kane Richardson 2(3)
11.4 -
I Abdulla to Rahane, 1 run, gets across and slaps a single to the sweeper. There's the fifty, his second of the season. Off the toe end and all given the width but that will do. Raises his bat instead of covering his ears. Take that, vuvuzelas!
9.2 -
I Abdulla to Rahane, 1 run, flatter again, but Rahane played the length not the trajectory, pulls it uppishly to long-on