Chennai Super Kings vs Royal Challengers Bangalore – IPL 5 – Live Cricket Score and Update
Chris Gayle and Virat Kohli powered Royal Challengers Bangalore to the tournament’s first 200-par score against Chennai Super Kings at the MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai, April 12, 2012.
Both men struck sublime half-centuries as the visitors posted 205 for 8, with the Chennai bowlers going for a considerable pounding.
With temperatures in the high 30s, Royal’s skipper Daniel Vettori was keen to bat first and his decision paid off after the first wicket added 53 in 5.2 overs. Despite Gayle opening, the early aggression came from Mayank Agarwal, who got the innings underway with a four off Ravichandran Ashwin. He then scored a boundary off Doug Bollinger before hitting the spinner for two more – luck also favoured him after he was given a reprieve, with Bollinger dropping a sitter.
The left-armer was again at the receiving end, with Agarwal smashing a four and six to reach to 32, leaving Gayle as a mere spectator on the non-strikers end. Two more maximum strikes followed, after which Albie Morkel took out the opener, aided by Bravo’s neat catch at mid-on.
Kohli then joined Gayle, who finally cut loose – taking Suresh Raina for three sixes to kick start his innings. Both men mainly dealt in boundaries and motored along to a 109-run stand for the second wicket - the highest of the IPL so far.
Ravinvdra Jadeja finally managed to get the better of the Windies dynamite, who departed after making 68 off 35 balls, which included 2 fours and six humongous biggies. That helped the Chennai bowlers to restrict the flow of runs, with the remaining batters failing to reach the double digit mark.
AB de Villiers managed just one scoring short and fell to Morkel before three batsmen walked back on the score of 198, including Kohli (57), while the next two batters were knocked out on 199. All happened in Bollinger’s third, and the innings last over, where the Australian took three wickets, and showed the presence of mind to run out Vettori.
The equation meant that the home side needed 206 to avoid their second loss in the space of three days.
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