Miller scores 38-ball ton to help Punjab clinch unbelievable win over RCB
Kings
XI Punjab's David Miller and Rajagopal Sathish celebrate team's victory
over Royal Challengers Bangalore during IPL 6 match n Mohali. (PTI
Photo)
MOHALI: It was an insult to injury for Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli. What a costly miss? He dropped David Miller when the Kings XI
Punjab's South African southpaw was batting on 41 in his team's 14th
over. It was not just any other dropped catch -- Kohli and every
spectator realised this soon. What Miller did after that was something
left everyone in a daze. It was over in the next four overs.
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Chasing 191, Kings XI looked dead and buried when they lost David Hussey, with the required run-rate swelling to 15 runs and more per over.
A heist was pulled off after that. Kohli dropped Miller off the last ball off the 14th over by Vinay Kumar and the match turned on its head. Miller decided to go for everything - he smashed RP Singh for 26 runs in the 15th over. The 16th over produced 16 runs, the next 17 and the 18th 23 runs! It was all over.
Kings pocketed by 6 wickets with Miller remaining unbeaten on 101. It was chase no one will forget in a hurry.
Earlier, it was just a change of venue for Chris Gayle. Everything else was same: decimating the opposition bowling line-up, hitting boundaries at will and increasing the crease lines on the face of the rival captain (this time David Hussey).
Pitted against Kings bowlers, the marauder from Windies started in typical fashion - watchful, sedate and biding his time.
The course of the Royal Challengers innings changed in the fifth over. An 87-metre six was followed by another monster from the bat of Gayle, which actually opened the floodgates for the Bangalore team. Newcomer Michael Neser, replacing Ryan Harris in the Kings XI squad, bore the brunt of Gayle's ire, conceding 18 runs off his first over in the tournament.
At the other end, playing his first match after fracturing his finger against Australia in the final Test in New Delhi, Cheteshwar Pujara was feeling his way into competitive cricket. But as Gayle went berserk, Pujara too joined the party, hitting three consecutive boundaries off Manpreet Gony in the final over of the fielding restrictions.
Gayle's (61 off 33b, 6x4 3x6) whirlwind knock was ended by Gony, who had his revenge after being hit for a massive six. Later, AB de Villiers' final assault — 21 runs off the final over —took Bangalore to a competitive total. But Miller had other ideas.
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Chasing 191, Kings XI looked dead and buried when they lost David Hussey, with the required run-rate swelling to 15 runs and more per over.
A heist was pulled off after that. Kohli dropped Miller off the last ball off the 14th over by Vinay Kumar and the match turned on its head. Miller decided to go for everything - he smashed RP Singh for 26 runs in the 15th over. The 16th over produced 16 runs, the next 17 and the 18th 23 runs! It was all over.
Kings pocketed by 6 wickets with Miller remaining unbeaten on 101. It was chase no one will forget in a hurry.
Earlier, it was just a change of venue for Chris Gayle. Everything else was same: decimating the opposition bowling line-up, hitting boundaries at will and increasing the crease lines on the face of the rival captain (this time David Hussey).
Pitted against Kings bowlers, the marauder from Windies started in typical fashion - watchful, sedate and biding his time.
The course of the Royal Challengers innings changed in the fifth over. An 87-metre six was followed by another monster from the bat of Gayle, which actually opened the floodgates for the Bangalore team. Newcomer Michael Neser, replacing Ryan Harris in the Kings XI squad, bore the brunt of Gayle's ire, conceding 18 runs off his first over in the tournament.
At the other end, playing his first match after fracturing his finger against Australia in the final Test in New Delhi, Cheteshwar Pujara was feeling his way into competitive cricket. But as Gayle went berserk, Pujara too joined the party, hitting three consecutive boundaries off Manpreet Gony in the final over of the fielding restrictions.
Gayle's (61 off 33b, 6x4 3x6) whirlwind knock was ended by Gony, who had his revenge after being hit for a massive six. Later, AB de Villiers' final assault — 21 runs off the final over —took Bangalore to a competitive total. But Miller had other ideas.
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