IPL8 – Bangalore dislodges Kolkata from No 2 position in rain affected match

#IPL8 #SRHvsRCB #ChrisGayle #ViratKohli #DavidWarner It was a terribly rain affected match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Sun Risers Hyderabad. The match was initially reduced to an 11-over match but, by the time RCB came to bat, the revised target was 81 in 6 overs. And, thanks to brilliant batting by Virat Kohli and Chris Gayle, they reached the target with one ball to spare.
This is reported in timesofindia.indiatimes.com dated 16 May 2015.

RCB defeated SRH by 6 wickets and, by virtue of this win, RCB moves up to 2nd spot in the points table dislodging KKR, the defending champions to No 3 position based on the net run rate.
Batting first, SRH posted a total of 135 for 3 in 11 overs – David Warner remained not out with 52 and with Moises Henriques (57), they put up a fairly good score because RCB would have to score at over 12 runs per over.
But, Duckworth-Lewis decided that RCB should score 81 runs in 6 overs – which works out to a rate of little over 13 per over.
And, when batsmen like Kohli and Gayle ae at the crease, anything can happen. Kohli remained not out with 44 in 19 balls while Gayle made 35 in 10 balls – both of them hit three sixes!! (Image courtesy wikimediacommons.org)

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