April 24, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 134 for 1 (Kohli 62*, de Villiers 47*) beat Rajasthan Royals 130 for 9 (Starc 3-22, Patel 2-23, Chahal 2-25) by nine wickets
Mitchell Starc is mobbed by his team-mates, Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2015, Ahmedabad, April 24, 2015
April 24, 2015
Brief Scorecard: Royal Challengers Bangalore 134 for 1 (Kohli 62*, de Villiers 47*) beat Rajasthan Royals 130 for 9 (Starc 3-22, Patel 2-23, Chahal 2-25) by nine wickets
Mitchell Starc is mobbed by his team-mates, Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2015, Ahmedabad, April 24, 2015
Ahmedabad: Skipper Virat Kohli blasted his second successive fifty and pacer Mitchell Starc snapped three wickets as Royal Challengers Bangalore notched up a comprehensive nine-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals in their IPL encounter here today.
Bangalore didn't put a foot wrong today as they first dished out a disciplined bowling performance to restrict Rajasthan to 130 for nine and then returned to overhaul the target with 23 balls to spare.
Chasing 130, Bangalore rode on the unbeaten 98-run partnership between Kohli and AB de Villiers (47) for the second wicket to snap their three-match losing streak and handover Rajasthan their second successive loss.
Earlier, Starc scalped three wickets, Yuzvendra Chahal and Harshal Patel took two wickets each while left-arm spinner Iqbal Abdulla snapped one at the Sardar Patel Stadium after skipper Kohli elected to field.
Chris Gayle (20) and Kohli gave Bangalore a good start with the West Indies batsman blasting three fours and a six.
But Shane Watson dismissed Gayle with a slower bouncer which caught him off guard as he top-edged it to wicket-keeper Sanju Samson.
AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli put on an unbeaten 98 run stand, Rajasthan Royals v Royal Challengers Bangalore, IPL 2015, Ahmedabad, April 24, 2015
AB de Villiers then joined Kohli and the South African skipper straight away blasted James Faulkner for a couple of boundaries. Kohli too picked up a six off Pravin Tambe to keep the scoreboard ticking.
de Villiers cracked two more fours in Tambe's second over. The duo started toying with the bowlers as they picked up quick singles and twos and also found regular boundaries to frustrate Rajasthan.
In the 14th over, Kohli brought up the 100 with a straight drive six off the first ball and then reached his individual fifty with a single.
de Villiers then blasted a four off Watson and Kohli plundered another six off Tambe in the next to inch closer to the target.
Finally, it was de Villiers who hit flicked Deepak Hooda to the midwicket boundary for a four to seal the game in Bangalore's favour.
Courtesy: PTI
