Kevin Pietersen's fluent innings snuffed out any hopes of Rajasthan springing a surprise
15 April 2010
Man Of The Match - Kevin Pietersen
Royal Challengers Bangalore 132 for 5 (Pietersen 62) beat Rajasthan Royals 130 for 6 by 5 wickets
Kevin Pietersen's fluent innings snuffed out any hopes of Rajasthan springing a surprise
Kevin Pietersen's fluent innings snuffed out any hopes of Rajasthan springing a surprise
Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 5 wickets (with 26 balls remaining)
Indian Premier League - 49th match
Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 5 wickets (with 26 balls remaining)
- Twenty20 match | 2009/10 season
- Played at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur
- 14 April 2010 - day/night (20-over match)
| Rajasthan Royals innings (20 overs maximum) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
 | MJ Lumb | run out (Kallis/Vinay Kumar) | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 112.50 | |
| NV Ojha† | c Pandey b Pankaj Singh | 7 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 77.77 | |
| AG Paunikar | c †Uthappa b Vinay Kumar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| SR Watson | c Pietersen b Kallis | 22 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 88.00 | |
| AA Jhunjhunwala | c Kumble b Pankaj Singh | 13 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 59.09 | |
| YK Pathan | b Steyn | 11 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 122.22 | |
| AC Voges | not out | 28 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 103.70 | ||
| AS Raut | not out | 32 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 160.00 | ||
| Extras | (lb 5, w 2, nb 1) | 8 | ||||||
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| Total | (6 wickets; 20 overs) | 130 | (6.50 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat Kamran Khan, SK Warne*, SK Trivedi |
| Fall of wickets1-16 (Lumb, 2.2 ov), 2-17 (Paunikar, 2.4 ov), 3-21 (Ojha, 3.2 ov), 4-53 (Watson, 10.1 ov),5-58 (Jhunjhunwala, 11.4 ov), 6-72 (Pathan, 13.1 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| A Kumble | 4 | 0 | 28 | 0 | 7.00 | (1nb) | ||
| DW Steyn | 4 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 3.75 | (1w) | |
| R Vinay Kumar | 4 | 0 | 36 | 1 | 9.00 | ||
| Pankaj Singh | 4 | 1 | 27 | 2 | 6.75 | ||
| JH Kallis | 4 | 0 | 19 | 1 | 4.75 | (1w) |
| Royal Challengers Bangalore innings (target: 131 runs from 20 overs) | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
| MK Pandey | c Pathan b Trivedi | 14 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 107.69 | |
| JH Kallis | b Kamran Khan | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| KP Pietersen | run out (Voges/Kamran Khan) | 62 | 29 | 10 | 2 | 213.79 | |
| RV Uthappa† | st †Ojha b Warne | 26 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 123.80 | |
| V Kohli | c Watson b Trivedi | 14 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 107.69 | |
| LRPL Taylor | not out | 10 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 90.90 | ||
| R Dravid | not out | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 125.00 | ||
| Extras | (lb 1) | 1 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 15.4 overs) | 132 | (8.42 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat R Vinay Kumar, Pankaj Singh, A Kumble*, DW Steyn |
| Fall of wickets1-6 (Kallis, 1.3 ov), 2-42 (Pandey, 4.5 ov), 3-102 (Uthappa, 10.4 ov), 4-113 (Pietersen, 11.5 ov),5-119 (Kohli, 13.4 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| SR Watson | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | |||
| Kamran Khan | 3 | 0 | 30 | 1 | 10.00 | ||
| SK Trivedi | 3.4 | 0 | 32 | 2 | 8.72 | ||
| AC Voges | 1 | 0 | 17 | 0 | 17.00 | |||
| SK Warne | 4 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 7.00 |
| Match details |
| Toss Rajasthan Royals, who chose to bat Points Royal Challengers Bangalore 2, Rajasthan Royals 0 |
| Player of the match KP Pietersen (Royal Challengers Bangalore) |
| Umpires BR Doctrove (West Indies) and S Ravi TV umpire SK Tarapore Match referee S Venkataraghavan Reserve umpire K Sharma |
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