END OF OVER:14 | 11 Runs | PBKS: 120/9 (83 runs required, RR: 8.57)
- Sandeep Sharma5 (5b)
- KC Cariappa12 (8b)
- Chris Gayle3-0-25-0
- Sachin Baby1-0-4-0
Thanks for your company. It's been a pleasure calling this game. Hope you enjoyed it. Do join us tomorrow. Cheers!
Virat Kohli is the Player of the Match for his 50-ball 113. "When all that was happening out there, I thought surely I can't get a 100 in 15 overs. I wasn't believing that it was happening. Chris, looked dangerous in the last game, he was in the zone again today. Everything is coming together. In the previous tournaments, we panicked. But hopefully we can continue what we have been doing. My main aim is to get runs, it doesn't matter how I play. Momentum is a big thing in T20s, when you get into the zone, you feel you can hit any ball. So you just want to give yourself. I didn't hit any balls because I was injured, but when I settled down, I thought I shouldn't think about my stitches. When I got the flow going, and the pain went away, I was able to play shots. T20s is just three hours a day. You still have 21 hours away, so why relax on the field? Today was a shortened game, but I was glad we got 15 overs in. We were desperate to get onto the park. It wouldn't have mattered even if it was a five-overs game. We wanted four in four, we now have three in three. So there's no reason why we can't win. We have got to that stage, where we've stopped thinking about other teams. We are just relaxed, the guys in the dugout are doing a great job. We've got the momentum now.
M Vijay: We thought 180 could have been chased down, but credit to them for the way they played. It's difficult to bowl to those two (Gayle and Kohli), and we weren't good enough today. We want to finish on a high, we will play out heart out in our last game.
Here's a look at the points table, for those asking
12:30am It's official. That's that. Third win on the trot for RCB. Believe it or not, they've jumped from No. 7 to No. 2 in a matter of six days. It didn't look like we'd have play. For two hours, Chinnaswamy was a party waiting to take off. For a while, the crowd was on tenterhooks, but when play started, they witnessed a demolition of the kind they witnessed last week against Gujarat Lions. Incredible performance this, to get 200 plus in 15 overs and then dismantle a deflated unit as easily as they did in the end. Margin of victory: 82 runs via DLS method
It has started to pour at the Chinnaswamy. Is that it?
Keshav : "Kohli's brilliance should be enough to get RCB into the knockout stages. As long as they can play a full game against Delhi and win, they should be through. Their 2 thumping recent wins will mean that no other team with 8 wins can touch them on NRR and that will not be an issue at all for them. Plus, there match against Delhi is the last one so they will be aware of exactly what their situation demands."
END OF OVER:13 | 4 Runs 1 Wkt | PBKS: 109/9 (103 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.38, RRR: 51.50)
- Sandeep Sharma2 (2b)
- KC Cariappa4 (5b)
- Sachin Baby1-0-4-0
- Chris Gayle2-0-14-0
MM Sharma run out 14 (12b 2x4 0x6) SR: 116.66
Sachin Baby into the attack
END OF OVER:12 | 9 Runs | PBKS: 105/8 (107 runs required from 18 balls, RR: 8.75, RRR: 35.66)
- Mohit Sharma14 (10b)
- KC Cariappa2 (3b)
- Chris Gayle2-0-14-0
- Yuzvendra Chahal3-0-25-4
Time-out

