and Taylor finishes it off by depositing a full toss into the square-leg boundary
KKR vs RCB, 43rd match at Bengaluru, IPL, Apr 10 2010 - Ball by Ball Commentary
RCB won by 7 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)
Good on ya, VK. Cheers for joining us everybody. Okay bye
Presentation
Vinay Kumar is the Man of the Match He says: "The new shoes [the shiny red ones] are nice. With bowling, I stuck to my basics, kept hitting the right areas, and definitely with this attack, there is so much gain: Steyn, Kallis, Anil, PK are all world-class bowlers. Two days ago, it was my dad's birthday, I want to dedicate this to him."
Anil Kumble: "Fantastic win. 10 overs, 100, bowlers did a fantastic job. Last three-four matches, we have been going for 180, so they did really well. Amazing crowd. The way Robin and Rahul batted, it was superb. Nice to have smiles back, and go to Nagpur on a positive note."
Sourav Ganguly: "We got off to a good start, we were, what, 100 in 11 overs... we didn't deserve to win today. Obviously we didn't bowl well enough either. We'll try and play well, try and wake up from this loss, and hopefully turn it on in Chennai."
Rahul Dravid: "It was a critical win, absolutely critical because we were playing team tied up. We have got a great batting line-up, so it is tough to get a hit. We try to mix and match, and Jacques finally got out, giving me a chance to bat. Ross is yet to have a proper bat."
That is some statement by Bangalore. They have overpowered Kolkata in brilliant fashion, and have moved up in the table to No. 2, although Delhi - behind them - have a game in hand. Their bowlers set this up, Dravid made sure there were no hiccups at the top of the chase, while scoring at 150 per 100 balls, and then Uthappa romped home, giving the NRR a boost
Dinda comes back
oh dear, another reverse sweep, this is hit even better, and it is a bigger six over cover-point, fifty up off 22 balls, and scores level
powerful sweep to deep midwicket, and there is a fielder there but he can't stop it even though it is not hit too far off him
regulation sweep, misses this one
reverse-swept for six or is it? lovely timing to get it to deep point, but it's actually a drop! Ishant ran in too far and then sees it lob him, and then kicks an IPL board in disgust. There will be hell to pay for that, buddy! Get ready for fines
round the wicket
swept along the ground this time, there is yes and no about the second, but a misfield in the deep has them safe
Taylor has seen enough of Mendis, and now he sweeps him for a six, gets under this carrom ball, and that amazing bat speed does the rest
slower ball, Uthappa wants to send it to Cubbon Park but is through with the shot early
good delivery, back of a length, extra bounce beats Uthappa's attempt at running it past the keeper
Nitin: "So its not just SRT and Dravid who r harassing Ishant.....Uthappa joins the bandwagon!!!"
bouncer, too high
slower ball, Robin mis-hits, but the top edge falls safe at deep square leg
another half-volley, this time Robin gets a thick outside edge over short third
I can smell an early finish, half-volley this time, and he has played it inside-out, wide of long-off
and is despatched over long-off first ball. Length ball, outside off, flat-batted straight down the ground
Narendra: "S.Ramesh's profile moves from Cricinfo to IMDB :P". Meanwhile Ishant's profile is on Cricinfo only, and he comes back to bowl
guides this to short third and retains strike
throws it up wide, gives him the room to swing his arms, and swing he does, an open-chested, flat-batted sweep, over his head
carrom ball, outside off, Taylor bunts it for one
Robin cross-bats this length ball on the first bounce to the very fielder moved in the deep
deep midwicket in
carrom ball, looks for the big sweep, gets a big inside edge onto the pad
flighted googly, turned around the corner for one
Mendis comes back
Over 18 • RCB 162/3
RCB won by 7 wickets (with 17 balls remaining)