Navdeep Saini’s fabulous penultimate over kept Royal Challengers Bangalore afloat as they beat Kings XI Punjab by 17 runs in an Indian Premier League encounter on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
AB de Villiers’ unbeaten 82 off 44\n balls took RCB to a healthy 202 for 4 and things could have gone awry \nwith young Nicholas Pooran (46 off 28 balls) hitting five sixes at the \nrear before Saini sealed it in the 19th over.Kings XI Punjab finished at\n 185 for 7 as RCB are now on eight points with three games left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Needing\n 30 off the last two, Saini (2\/33), who is one of India’s fastest \nbowlers produced a hostile over in which he removed the dangerous David \nMiller and Pooran but more importantly gave away only three runs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saini\n bowled fast and into the body of the batsmen, who couldn’t really get \ngoing and his aggression became the defining factor in the end.Defending\n 27 runs off the final over, Umesh Yadav (3\/33) was better than the \nother night against CSK as he got a couple of wickets. With four wins in\n the last five games, RCB will hope to win the remaining three and \nexpect a few favourable result to make it to the play-offs as rank \noutsiders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mayank Agarwal (35 off 21 balls) continued the flurry \nof fours during his 59-run stand with Rahul. Rahul and Mayank were out \nin quick succession before Pooran and David Miller (24) took charge with\n some lusty hitting added 68 off 8 overs as it boiled down to 30 off the\n final two overs. However both Saini and Umesh did well to get another \ntwo points for the RCB.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Earlier, AB de Villiers’ scintillating \nhalf century and a 121-run stand with Marcus Stoinis propelled Royal \nChallengers Bangalore to 202 for four after being put into bat. Sent \ninto bat, De Villiers scored a brilliant unbeaten 82 off 44 balls with \nthree fours and seven sixes, while Stoinis hammered 46 off 34 balls with\n two fours and three sixes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the last two overs, both Stonis \nand De Villiers hamered 45 runs off Mohammad Shami and Hardus Viljoen. \nAfter reaching his 50 off 35 balls, De Villiers, smashed Shami for three\n sixes, plundering 18 runs in the penultimate over. In the last over, \nboth Stoinis and De Villiers hammered 27 runs off Viljoen, which helped \nthe hosts to race past 200 runs mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Put into bat, opener \nParthiv (43 off 24 balls) and Virat Kohli gave a rollicking start \ngetting 35 runs on board in 18 balls but RCB captain was dismissed by \nShami after he was caught by Mandeep Singh at extra cover. Parthiv then \ngot into the act for RCB, hitting out of the park Shami for three \nboundaries and a six in sixth over, who conceded 18 runs in his third \nover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The left-hander also was severe on Ankit Rajpoot, hitting \nhim for four boundaries and a six. The wicket-keeper batsman did not \nlast long as he was caught by Ravinchandran Ashwin off Murugan Ashwin, \nafter he had smashed seven 4s and two sixes.\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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