http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rajasthan-c837 Royals surge ahead with important win over Pune Warriors – IPL4 Update
PW 143/7 20 overs RR 144/4 19.3 overs
A sparkling unbeaten innings by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Taylor-c92915 gave Rajasthan Royals an important win over Pune Warriors in the Indian Premier League match played at Jaipur on May 1.
Taylor, who only a couple of days ago stressed on the need of doing the finishing job assigned to him properly, demonstrated that he has the skills and the knack to make his words count. The stylish right-hander contributed 47 runs with the help of 4 fours
and 2 towering sixes to take his team past the target.
Ross was well supported by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Ashok-c46345 Menaria and Rahane towards the end of the innings as the Royals stamped their authority with the bat to hunt down a challenging total set by the visitors.
For the Royals their top order of Shane http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326, Rahul Dravid and Johan Botha all chipped in with handy scores at the start of the innings to help Taylor get past the target at the end of the innings.
Pune were banking on their bowlers to do a special job after posting at best a par score, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Rahul-c83321 Sharma gave them a sniff with a remarkable effort of 3 from 13 off 4 tidy overs.
However the brute force of Taylor was too tough to handle for the Warriors, earlier Pune stuttered through a total of 143/7 in the allotted overs.
The hosts continued their purple patch with the ball following their drubbing of http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Mithun-Manhas-c76414 were the main contributors to the Warriors total.
Uthappa top scored with 35 off 21 balls, his innings was studded with 7 fours. http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Johan-Botha-c67173, Shane Warne and Shane Watson kept a tight leash on the Warriors who were strangled for runs by the discipline of the Royals attack.
The biggest disappointment for Pune was the failure of their star batsmen like Jesse Ryder, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Yuvraj-Singh-c98364 and Nathan McCullum. The three failed to get going and lost their wickets to poor shots.
Pune needs to hit back strong in the remaining matches if they are to go through the last four stage of the exciting tournament.
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