Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Pune Warriors IPL 2013 Match Highlights: 21 sixes, 21 fours and 263 runs… The flood of runs that came at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on 31 March 2013 surprised everyone. While Chris Gayle’s storm was visible in this match, the miserliness of one bowler was also in the news, who gave only 23 runs in 24 balls. No batsman could play big shots against him.
We are talking about the match between Royal Challengers Bangalore (then Royal Challengers Bangalore) and Pune Warriors, in which Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled economically and gave 23 runs in 4 overs. However, he could not get any wicket. Apart from him, Luke Wright bowled brilliantly. He took 1 wicket for 26 runs in 4 overs.
Gayle hit 17 sixes and 13 fours
Pune Warriors captain Aaron Finch won the toss and decided to field first, which Chris Gayle left no stone unturned in proving wrong. RCB’s opening batsman scored fifty in just 17 balls, century in 30 balls and 150 runs in 53 balls. He remained unbeaten after scoring 175 runs in 66 balls, hitting 17 sixes and 13 fours.
Due to Gayle’s explosive innings, RCB scored 50 runs in 4.5 overs. Completed 100 runs in 7.5 overs, 150 runs in 11.5 overs, 200 runs in 15.5 overs and 250 runs in 18.4 overs. When the innings ended, there were 263 runs on the scoreboard at the loss of 5 wickets. Apart from Gayle, Tillakaratne Dilshan scored 33, captain Virat Kohli scored 11, AB de Villiers scored 31 and Saurabh Tiwari scored 2 runs. Whereas, Ravi Rampal was out without opening the account.
Aaron Finch gave 29 runs in one over
Captain Aaron Finch gave 29 runs in 1 over, after which he did not come to bowl again. Apart from them, Ishwar Pandey gave 33 runs in 2 overs, Ashok Dinda gave 48 runs in 4 overs, Mitchell Marsh gave 56 runs in 3 overs and Ali Mortaza gave 45 runs in 2 overs.
Pune Warriors’ batting was a flop
- While chasing the target of 264 runs set by RCB, Pune Warriors team could score only 133 runs for 9 wickets, due to which they had to face a crushing defeat by 130 runs.
- Opener Robin Uthappa was out on the second ball of the first over without opening the account. After this, the sequence of wickets falling did not stop till the end.
- Captain Finch scored 18, Yuvraj Singh 16. Luke Wright scored 7, Steve Smith 41, Mitchell Marsh 24, Mithun Manhas (who is now the BCCI President) scored 11 not out, Bhuvneshwar Kumar scored 6 and Ali Mortaza scored 5 runs, while Ishwar Pandey could not even open his account.
- Ravi Rampal, Jaydev Unadkat and Chris Gayle took 2-2 wickets for Pune Warriors. Whereas Murali Karthik, RP Singh and Vinay Kumar got 1 wicket each. Gayle was chosen player of the match for his excellent performance.
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