Pune http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Warriors-c861 v Rajasthan Royals – IPL 5 – Royals rule supreme – Live Score and Update
Pune Warriors 125/6 (20/20 ov) v http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals 126/3 (16.2/20 ov) - Rajasthan Royals won by 7 wickets (with 22 balls remaining)
On Tuesday, Pune Warriors lost their final chance to stay in the running for a place in the qualifiers of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL), after losing their match to Rajasthan Royals by seven wickets, at Subrata http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Andrew-Symonds-c44611 Sahara Stadium, Pune.
With this defeat, Pune are now lingering at eighth spot, just above Deccan Chargers with four wins from 13 games.
Choosing to bat first on winning the toss, Pune had a decent start to their innings as openers http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MJ-Clarke-c1978 hammered 30 runs.
However after the wicket of Ganguly (14), http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Clarke-c51120 was soon to follow as with 35 runs on the board, he departed after scoring an innings of 16 runs.
Royals’ bowlers then made a remarkable comeback in the match as they kept grabbing wickets at random, hampering the flow of runs.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SW-Tait-c2616 was the pick of the bowlers as he grabbed three wickets, incinerating Pune’s batting line-up.
It was a resilient innings of 30 runs from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Anustup-Majumdar-c1071 in the middle that helped the side to at least post 125 runs on the board.
However, this total was by no means intimidating enough to give RR any sort of jitters and for Pune it was imperative to bowl-out the other side in order to win the game.
RR had a shocking start to their innings as they lost their first wicket with only four runs on the board as http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ajinkya-Rahane-c970 went for nil.
It was then a brilliant knock of 90 runs from http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558 that won Royals the match as the batsman smacked the bowlers, punishing them without remorse. He was later named as the Player of the Match for his resounding performance in the fixture.
"The wicket was a bit slow, I suppose it was my night tonight. I just back myself, I have a clear mind and try to hit straight. Initially, I was thinking of getting ahead of the rate so that it would get easy in the middle of the innings. My first game I was a bit rusty after Test cricket, but it was better after a couple of practice sessions," said http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326.
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