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Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 5 wickets

Bangalore Royal Challengers beat Kolkata Knight Riders by five wickets in their Indian Premier Laegue (IPL) encounter. Knight Riders captain Brendon McCullum won the toss and elected to bat against Bangalore Royal Challengers in their Indian Premier League (IPL) match. They made 139 for six in 20 overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders: 139 for six (Chris Gayle 40, Morme Van Wyk 43 not out, Anil Kumble 2-16)

Royal Challengers: 142 for five (Shreevats Goswami 43, Brad Hodge 3-29)

Superb contest between the bat and the ball. The pitch was never suited for the big swings over the cow corner region or down the ground. The Knight Riders didn't help their case by losing wickets all the time, no one other than Van Wyk looked good in the middle but in the end, 140 looked to be a par score on a slow turf like this. Royal Challengers started off tentatively but they got good runs on the board first-up. The Knight Riders bowled the maximum overs with the slower men, that trick clicked as wickets tumbled just at the crucial time to take the match down to the wire. But the best part for Bangalore Royal Challengers was that they had Boucher, one of the best finishers in world cricket, in the middle and hence they sealed the win comfortably in the end.

Kolkata: 1 Chris Gayle, 2 Brendon McCullum (capt/ wk), 3 Brad Hodge, 4 Sourav Ganguly, 5 Laxmi Shukla, 6 Morne van Wyk, 7 Wriddhiman Saha, 8 Ajit Agarkar, 9 Ishant Sharma, 10 Murali Kartik, 11 Ashok Dinda.

Bangalore: 1 Sreevats Goswami, 2 Jacques Kallis, 3 Kevin Pietersen (capt), 4 Manish Pandey, 5 Roelof van der Merwe, 6 Mark Boucher, 7 V Kohli, 8 Praveen Kumar, 9 Pankaj Singh, 10 Anil Kumble, 11 KP Appanna.