Kochi Tuskers: Scorecard - Cool de Villiers crashes Kochi party

Kochi Tuskers Kerala innings (20 overs maximum)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
	BB McCullum	c Nannes b Kohli	45	32	4	2	140.62
	11.3 the scoop goes wrong for McCullum. He moved a long way outside off, got down on his knees and tried to scoop the ball over the keeper. He had no pace to work with and lobbed a catch to short third man 93/2
	VVS Laxman	c Pujara b Dilshan	36	29	2	2	124.13
	8.6 caught! Laxman connects with the slog-sweep but hits it flat and in the air straight to the fielder at deep midwicket. Pujara barely had to move and took the catch easily 80/1
	DPMD Jayawardene*	st †de Villiers b Vettori	18	18	2	0	100.00
	15.1 Mahela charges, and isn't to the pitch of the ball. He's beaten in the flight and then has a swing that connects with nothing. de Villiers whips off the bails with the batsman a long way out of his crease 124/3
	BJ Hodge	b Khan	27	21	3	0	128.57
	17.6 Hodge charged, and then ended up yorking himself. He tried to dig the ball out on the off but missed. Zaheer uprooted leg stump. 147/4
	RA Jadeja	not out	23	16	2	1	143.75

	RV Gomez	c Tiwary b Nannes	0	1	0	0	0.00
	18.4 Gomez lasts one ball. He tried to pull but Nannes was too quick for him. The short ball hurried on to him and the mis-hit lobbed in the air to Tiwary at midwicket 152/5
	PA Patel†	not out	1	4	0	0	25.00

	Extras	(b 1, lb 2, w 7, nb 1)	11
	Total	(5 wickets; 20 overs)	161	(8.05 runs per over)

Did not bat M Muralitharan, R Vinay Kumar, RP Singh, S Sreesanth

Fall of wickets1-80 (Laxman, 8.6 ov), 2-93 (McCullum, 11.3 ov), 3-124 (Jayawardene, 15.1 ov), 4-147 (Hodge, 17.6 ov), 5-152 (Gomez, 18.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
Z Khan	4	0	28	1	7.00
17.6 to Hodge, Hodge charged, and then ended up yorking himself. He tried to dig the ball out on the off but missed. Zaheer uprooted leg stump. 147/4
DP Nannes	3	0	31	1	10.33	(1w)
18.4 to Gomez, Gomez lasts one ball. He tried to pull but Nannes was too quick for him. The short ball hurried on to him and the mis-hit lobbed in the air to Tiwary at midwicket 152/5
DL Vettori	4	0	17	1	4.25
15.1 to Jayawardene, Mahela charges, and isn't to the pitch of the ball. He's beaten in the flight and then has a swing that connects with nothing. de Villiers whips off the bails with the batsman a long way out of his crease 124/3
TM Dilshan	4	0	30	1	7.50
8.6 to Laxman, caught! Laxman connects with the slog-sweep but hits it flat and in the air straight to the fielder at deep midwicket. Pujara barely had to move and took the catch easily 80/1
A Mithun	1	0	19	0	19.00	(1nb)

V Kohli	2	0	14	1	7.00
11.3 to McCullum, the scoop goes wrong for McCullum. He moved a long way outside off, got down on his knees and tried to scoop the ball over the keeper. He had no pace to work with and lobbed a catch to short third man 93/2
AUK Pathan	2	0	19	0	9.50	(2w)


Royal Challengers Bangalore innings (target: 162 runs from 20 overs)		R	B	4s	6s	SR
MA Agarwal	c Vinay Kumar b Jadeja	33	24	2	2	137.50
9.6 Mayank falls! Caught at long-off. A full ball on off and middle, Mayank makes room and smashes it flat towards long off where Vinay Kumar holds an easy catch. And then he flings the ball into the ground in angry celebration. 85/3
TM Dilshan	c McCullum b Sreesanth	1	4	0	0	25.00
1.2 caught at cover! Sreesanth brings Kochi alive. Dilshan gets a leading edge to an outswinger and McCullum dives forward to take a low and sharp catch. He was trying to whip that towards leg. The umpire Dharmasena wants to check if Sreesanth had over-stepped, he's ok, by the skin of his teeth 7/1
V Kohli	lbw b Vinay Kumar	23	18	4	0	127.77
5.3 plumb lbw. Vinay Kumar skids the ball into the right-hander from outside off, Kohli moved across his stumps to flick the ball through square and missed. The ball crashed into the pads, Kohli was in his crease and that would have taken out leg stump 48/2
AB de Villiers†	not out	54	40	1	5	135.00

SS Tiwary	c Jayawardene b Gomez	26	24	2	0	108.33
17.4 Tiwary tries to hit down the ground, a slog really, and ends up slicing it in the air towards cover, where Mahela back-pedals on the edge of the circle and holds the catch 137/4
AUK Pathan	not out	12	4	3	0	300.00

Extras	(lb 4, w 7, nb 2)	13
Total	(4 wickets; 18.4 overs)	162	(8.67 runs per over)

Did not bat CA Pujara, Z Khan, DL Vettori*, DP Nannes, A Mithun

Fall of wickets1-7 (Dilshan, 1.2 ov), 2-48 (Kohli, 5.3 ov), 3-85 (Agarwal, 9.6 ov), 4-137 (Tiwary, 17.4 ov)


Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
RP Singh	3	0	29	0	9.66	(4w)

S Sreesanth	3	0	28	1	9.33	(2nb, 1w)
1.2 to Dilshan, caught at cover! Sreesanth brings Kochi alive. Dilshan gets a leading edge to an outswinger and McCullum dives forward to take a low and sharp catch. He was trying to whip that towards leg. The umpire Dharmasena wants to check if Sreesanth had over-stepped, he's ok, by the skin of his teeth 7/1
RA Jadeja	4	0	28	1	7.00	(1w)
9.6 to Agarwal, Mayank falls! Caught at long-off. A full ball on off and middle, Mayank makes room and smashes it flat towards long off where Vinay Kumar holds an easy catch. And then he flings the ball into the ground in angry celebration. 85/3
R Vinay Kumar	3.4	0	26	1	7.09	(1w)
5.3 to Kohli, plumb lbw. Vinay Kumar skids the ball into the right-hander from outside off, Kohli moved across his stumps to flick the ball through square and missed. The ball crashed into the pads, Kohli was in his crease and that would have taken out leg stump 48/2
M Muralitharan	4	0	27	0	6.75

RV Gomez	1	0	20	1	20.00

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