Rajasthan outclass Bangalore
BANGALOARE: Rajasthan Royals made mincemeat of Royal Challengers Bangalore in their own backyard recording an unbelievable 59-run victory in the IPL T20 clash at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.
Ajinkya Rahane was the batting hero making an unbeaten 103, the first player to score a century in this edition. If that wasn't enough Siddharth Trivedi produced a superb spell of controlled medium pace bowling to claim four wickets, clean bowling all batsmen to grab 4 for 25.
While Amit singh and Pankaj Singh picked up two wickets each to complete RCB's humiliation as they never got going in their chase of 195 for a victory folding up for a paltry 136.
The match was won and lost between the last ten overs of each team.Rajasthan Royals managed to hammer as much as 120 runs losing only two wickets between the 10th and 20th overs.
RCB got only 60 runs in the same number of overs and lost seven wickets in the process. Challengers crashed to a huge defeat to Rahul Dravid's inexperienced side.
Ajinkya Rahane and England batsman Oawis Shah produced scintillating knocks to propel Rajasthan Royals to 195 for 2 off 20 overs, something not visualised till the departure of their skipper Rahul Dravid.
Opting to bat after winning the toss, Rajasthan's innings moved at varying speeds. With Dravid content to do the jad and push. The score was a moderate 34 for no loss after five overs.
It moved to 61 for no loss after ten overs and barely two balls later, Dravid departed, stumped by Ab de Villiers as he stepped out to Daniel
Vettori's flighted one which turned away too.
Ajinkya was joined by Oasis Shah and the two proceeded to tear every bowler apart with some blistering batting. No bowler, however reputed, was spared. They put on 61 runs in the space of just three overs as they sent the ball tearing into the ropes or soaring into the stands with controlled aggression.
Ajinkya had the distinction of scoring a boundary of every ball of Sreenath Aravind's over. It was probably the first time that this feat was achieved. He straight drove him below the sight screen of the first two balls.
The third he knocked behind fine leg, the fourth went past point, the fifth was a superb cover drive and the last one was edged for variety to the third man fence. Oawis applauded him and then clouted Vinay Kumar for two huge sixers in answer.
In fact, Ajinkya slammed Vettori, Muralitharan, Zaheer Khan, Aravind and Vinay for a six once.
The two put on 121 splendid runs for the second wicket before Shah departed caught by Vinay Kumar off Zaheer after making a breezy 60 in just 26 balls with five fours and five sixers.
Ajinkya carried on and reached his century, the first by any player in IPL V. He eventually remained unbeaten with a spectacular knock of controlled hitting after making 103 which had 12 fours and five sixers.
Brad Hodge was not out on just one but Rajasthan had reached 195 for 2 setting RCB a target of 196 to win at an average of 9.8 runs an over.
BANGALOARE: Rajasthan Royals made mincemeat of Royal Challengers Bangalore in their own backyard recording an unbelievable 59-run victory in the IPL T20 clash at the Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday.
Ajinkya Rahane was the batting hero making an unbeaten 103, the first player to score a century in this edition. If that wasn't enough Siddharth Trivedi produced a superb spell of controlled medium pace bowling to claim four wickets, clean bowling all batsmen to grab 4 for 25.
While Amit singh and Pankaj Singh picked up two wickets each to complete RCB's humiliation as they never got going in their chase of 195 for a victory folding up for a paltry 136.
The match was won and lost between the last ten overs of each team.Rajasthan Royals managed to hammer as much as 120 runs losing only two wickets between the 10th and 20th overs.
RCB got only 60 runs in the same number of overs and lost seven wickets in the process. Challengers crashed to a huge defeat to Rahul Dravid's inexperienced side.
Ajinkya Rahane and England batsman Oawis Shah produced scintillating knocks to propel Rajasthan Royals to 195 for 2 off 20 overs, something not visualised till the departure of their skipper Rahul Dravid.
Opting to bat after winning the toss, Rajasthan's innings moved at varying speeds. With Dravid content to do the jad and push. The score was a moderate 34 for no loss after five overs.
It moved to 61 for no loss after ten overs and barely two balls later, Dravid departed, stumped by Ab de Villiers as he stepped out to Daniel
Vettori's flighted one which turned away too.
Ajinkya was joined by Oasis Shah and the two proceeded to tear every bowler apart with some blistering batting. No bowler, however reputed, was spared. They put on 61 runs in the space of just three overs as they sent the ball tearing into the ropes or soaring into the stands with controlled aggression.
Ajinkya had the distinction of scoring a boundary of every ball of Sreenath Aravind's over. It was probably the first time that this feat was achieved. He straight drove him below the sight screen of the first two balls.
The third he knocked behind fine leg, the fourth went past point, the fifth was a superb cover drive and the last one was edged for variety to the third man fence. Oawis applauded him and then clouted Vinay Kumar for two huge sixers in answer.
In fact, Ajinkya slammed Vettori, Muralitharan, Zaheer Khan, Aravind and Vinay for a six once.
The two put on 121 splendid runs for the second wicket before Shah departed caught by Vinay Kumar off Zaheer after making a breezy 60 in just 26 balls with five fours and five sixers.
Ajinkya carried on and reached his century, the first by any player in IPL V. He eventually remained unbeaten with a spectacular knock of controlled hitting after making 103 which had 12 fours and five sixers.
Brad Hodge was not out on just one but Rajasthan had reached 195 for 2 setting RCB a target of 196 to win at an average of 9.8 runs an over.
News Posted: 15 April, 2012
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