Royal Challengers Bangalore played Kolkata Knight Riders on 2 May 2016 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore. Both the teams came into this game after defeats. RCB had been struggling and currently sit in the bottom half of the table. While KKR started their campaign beautifully but have lost track in the last two games. Both teams wanted a win. This match had it all to make it an absolute thriller.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and elected to field first. Bowling first has been the trend in IPL 2016.
Gautam Gambhir said, "Would like to chase down the target set by the RCB. Honoured to be captaining my hundredth game for the KKR. Very honoured. It's a good wicket here in Bangalore today. Three changes to our team."
Virat Kohli hinted, "The boys are up for it, there's a confident mood in the dressing room judging the mood in the dressing room. Would have like to bowl first as well. It's difficult to find the right combination when you aren't winning many games. Four changes to our team."
Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing XI:
Virat Kohli(C), Chris Gayle, AB de Villiers, Shane Watson, Lokesh Rahul (WK), Sachin Baby, Stuart Binny, Varun Aaron, Sreenath Aravind, Yuzvendra Chahal, Tabraiz Shamsi.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI:
Robin Uthappa (WK), Gautam Gambhir (C), Manish Pandey, Chris Lynn, Suryakumar Yadav, Yusuf Pathan, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Sunil Narine, Morne Morkel.
Chris Gayle was back in the side for RCB while Manish Pandey was back for KKR.
Royal Challengers Bangalore lost Chris Gayle early on. He hasn’t been in great form in the recent past. Virat Kohli and Lokesh Rahul stuck in to steady the innings. Lokesh Rahul scored yet another half-century.
Kohli continued his sublime form and scored another half-century. AB de Villiers could not get going and was dismissed for only four runs.
Bangalore scored 54 runs in the last three overs, thanks to Stuart Binny, Sachin Baby, and Shane Watson. They put 185 runs on the board.
Kolkata Knight Riders lost wickets at regular intervals. They had lost their captain for just 37 runs. Troubled times for KKR.
Andre Russell and Yusuf Pathan played spectacularly and tipped the odds back in KKR’s favour. Yusuf Pathan demolished Shane Watson in the seventeenth over. He scored his fifty in just 27 balls. Russell and Pathan put 96 runs for the fifth wicket.
We have a change in the leading run-scorers chart. Virat Kohli now holds the orange cap. Gautam Gambhir moved to fourth whereas de Villiers slipped to fifth place.
IPL 2016 Highest Run-Scorers | ||||||||
Positon | Player | Matches | Innings | NO | Runs | HS | Average | SR |
1 | Virat Kohli | 7 | 7 | 1 | 433 | 100* | 72.16 | 137.02 |
2 | David Warner | 7 | 7 | 2 | 386 | 92 | 77.20 | 168.55 |
3 | Rohit Sharma | 9 | 9 | 3 | 383 | 85* | 63.83 | 137.27 |
4 | Gautam Gambhir | 8 | 8 | 2 | 339 | 90* | 56.50 | 123.72 |
5 | AB de Villiers | 7 | 7 | 0 | 320 | 83 | 45.71 | 163.26 |
6 | Ajinkya Rahane | 8 | 8 | 1 | 280 | 67 | 40.00 | 125.56 |
7 | Ambati Rayudu | 9 | 8 | 0 | 271 | 65 | 33.87 | 124.88 |
8 | Steve Smith | 8 | 7 | 1 | 270 | 101 | 45.00 | 153.40 |
9 | Robin Uthappa | 8 | 8 | 0 | 243 | 72 | 30.37 | 133.51 |
10 | Suresh Raina | 8 | 8 | 0 | 228 | 75 | 28.50 | 128.08 |
Russell produced an excellent first over. To follow that, Morne Morkel removed Chris Gayle in his first over. Splendid start for Kolkata Knight Riders. Piyush Chawla and Morne Morkel picked up two wickets each. Umesh Yadav is at number five while Andre Russel is at number seven in the leading wicket-takers chart.
RCB started well with the ball and dismissed Robin Uthappa in the first over. Chahal took two wickets today including the crucial wicket of Andre Russell. It didn't matter. Yusuf Pathan made sure that KKR crossed the line comfortably.
Mitchell McClenaghan still leads the top wicket-takers chart. Shane Watson moved into the top-10 wicket-takers chart.
IPL 2016 Top Wicket-Takers | |||||||||
Position | Player | Matches | Innings | Overs | Runs | Wickets | BBI | Average | Economy |
1 | Mitchell McClenaghan | 9 | 9 | 34.3 | 275 | 13 | 4/21 | 21.15 | 7.97 |
2 | Jasprit Bumrah | 9 | 9 | 34.0 | 275 | 11 | 3/26 | 25.00 | 8.08 |
3 | Mohit Sharma | 7 | 7 | 22.5 | 176 | 10 | 3/23 | 17.60 | 7.70 |
4 | Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 7 | 7 | 27.0 | 220 | 10 | 4/29 | 22.00 | 8.14 |
5 | Umesh Yadav | 7 | 7 | 21.0 | 190 | 10 | 3/28 | 19.00 | 9.04 |
6 | Dwayne Bravo | 8 | 8 | 31.0 | 286 | 10 | 4/22 | 28.60 | 9.22 |
7 | Andre Russell | 8 | 8 | 25.0 | 207 | 9 | 3/24 | 23.00 | 8.28 |
8 | Shane Watson | 7 | 7 | 26.3 | 228 | 9 | 2/25 | 25.33 | 8.60 |
9 | Mustafizur Rahman | 7 | 7 | 26.0 | 170 | 8 | 2/9 | 21.25 | 6.53 |
10 | Amit Mishra | 6 | 6 | 19.0 | 135 | 8 | 4/11 | 16.87 | 7.10 |
RCB’s AB de Villiers has the most number of catches. Wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel has the most dismissals in IPL 2016. He dismissed ten players so far. MS Dhoni follows Patel with eight dismissals.
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