Kohli hits fifty to lift Bangalore
April 17, 2016  21:00


RCB 114-2 (13 ovs) vs Delhi | SCORECARD


Delhi's bowlers are guilty of giving away a lot of loose deliveries time and again. This time Mishra bowls the quicker one down the leg side as AB gets it off the pads for four leg byes.

10 runs from the 10th over takes RCB to 97 for one with AB on 54 from 29 balls and Kohli on 37 from 28 balls.

They are on course for a total around the 200-run mark.

Negi looking to bowl it slower as he gives it a bit of air. Kohli chips down the track but is too early into the shot as he gets an inside edge for a single on the leg side.

But he smashes the fifth ball handsomely over long-on for a six as RCB go past the 100-run mark, in the 11th over.

It is West Indian Carlos Brathwaite, who breaks the stand with the key wicket of AB.

The South Africa goes for a big hit down the ground but holes out to Shami at long-on to walk back after a superb innings of 55 from 33 balls, having hit nine fours and a six.

He rallied RCB after the early wicket of Gayle, putting on 107 runs from 65 balls for the second wicket with Kohli.

That is the first wicket for Brathwaite in the IPL and it couldn't get any bigger!

But Delhi can't relax yet as another dangerous RCB batsman walks out to the middle in the form of Shane Watson.

Excellent start with the ball from Brathwaite, conceding just three runs, while taking the wicket of AB to check RCB's charge.

Shami comes back into the attack as Delhi look to bowl a few tight overs and create some pressure.

Shami does well to concede just five but Kohli races to his fifty from just 36 balls with a single from the last ball.
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