Sensing the danger, Gujarat skipper Suresh Raina threw the ball to his most economical bowler Thampi and the Kerala pacer delivered on the third ball of his new spell. He warmed to the task as things progressed, though, hitting seven sixes and five fours in his 38-ball stay.
Brendon McCullum continued his scintillating form for the Gujarat Lions with 72 runs off just 44 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Kohli led the way early, on a sluggish Rajkot surface, and smashed five fours from the first three overs. I wanted this so badly, but first of all to get 10,000 runs, it was actually on my mind, so I'm glad to get that sort of achievement. Even playing for West Indies as well.
The Gayle show was eventually over in the 13th over, with Basil Thampi - who continued his impressive performance, combining flawless yorkers with a variety of slower balls - trapping him in front of the wickets. The other spinners like Shadab Jakati and Shivil Kaushik proved to be expensive when they were given a chance.
Jadhav ruined the bowling figures of Ravindra Jadeja (0-57) by smashing the left-arm spinner for 17 runs in the last over.
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Gayle and Kohli put on 122 runs for the opening wicket which laid the foundation for RCB's 213/2 in 20 overs. The Kiwi batsman celebrated the 10th anniversary of the magnificent 158* he scored on the opening night of the Indian Premier League with a stroke-filled half-century; he reached fifty in style, depositing Negi into the stands behind square-leg. He then blasted a towering six over wide of long on on the fourth ball.
In the next over, Kulkarni returned to dismiss Kohli, who holed out to deep midwicket with Smith taking the catch at the boundary line.
Kishan (39 from 16 balls) briefly threatened to blitz the Lions to an unlikely win but after hitting a pair of fours and two sixes in the penultimate over, found himself off strike for the first three balls of the 20th, by which time the game was done.
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (Capt), Tymal Mills, Aniket Chaudhary, Praveen Dubey, Billy Stanlake, AB de Viller, Chris Gayle, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Mandeep Singh, Adam Milne, Sarfaraz Khan, Sreenath Arvind, Kedar Jadhav, Shane Watson, Stuart Binny, Sameuel Badree, Iqbal Abdulla, Travis Head, Shchjin Baby, Avesh Khan and Tabraiz Shamsi.
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