Banglore royal challengers make their victory

Jacques Kallis smashed an imperious half-century as Bangalore secured a remarkable eight-wicket victory over Mohali.

Fuelled by a rollicking 75 from opener Manvinder Bisla and a superb 77 from Ravi Bopara - his second consecutive half-century - Mohali amassed a formidable 203 for three after choosing to bat first.

But Kallis smashed an unbeaten 89 and Robin Uthappa smacked 51 as Bangalore overhauled that target with seven deliveries to spare.

Praveen Kumar sent down a tidy first over, conceding just one and beating the outside edge on several occasions, but from there the game spiralled out of control for the home side.

Dale Steyn was disappointingly profligate at the start and Anil Kumble, who brought himself on first over after the end of the powerplay, proved more expensive.

Bisla began his innings with an ungainly boundary past wicketkeeper Mark Boucher down the leg side, and although he struggled initially, he managed to score at a decent rate.

The tempo rose considerably in the sixth over - Kallis' second - Bisla pummelling the South Africa paceman for a six and two boundaries in five deliveries and the runs flowed freely from there on.
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Bisla dominated the opening stand which produced 129 in 14.1 overs and went to his half-century in 36 deliveries before eventually holing out to Eoin Morgan at deep mid-wicket.

Bopara, who had played the supporting role nicely, then accelerated smoothly and raced past the half-century mark by hammering Praveen for three consecutive boundaries.

Then Bopara fell and Yuvraj Singh (nine) recorded another failure with the bat, but Mahela Jayawardene ensured a strong finish with a quick 26.

The home side faced a daunting chase, but openers Kallis and Manish Pandey (38) gave them a steady start, putting on 74 in 8.1 overs.
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Pandey had provided impetus, striking two boundaries and smashing three sixes before his departure, but it was Uthappa's fiery innings which put Bangalore on track.

Uthappa smashed four boundaries and as many sixes - three of which came off a Sreesanth over which yielded 25 - and raised his half-century off only 19 deliveries before falling to Bipul Sharma, one of two specialist spinners in the Mohali side.

Bangalore needed 55 from the last five overs, but Kallis brought that target down to 11 off the last two overs by hammering Bipul for three sixes and a four in one over.

Royal challengers banglore .Matches 2010

IPL-1
The team won 4 matches in this season, losing 10 matches and managed to secure only the last but one position in the points table. Only one of their batsman, Rahul Dravid managed to score more than 300 runs in the tournament and they had to even bench their costliest foreign player, Jacques Kallis for few of the matches due to his poor form.The string of failures led to the sacking of the CEO, Charu Sharma who was replaced with Brijesh Patel. They were the only team in the IPL to try out 11 opening combinations in 14 games. Eventually the chief cricketing officer, Martin Crowe resigned and replaced by Coach Ray Jennings.

IPL-2
With the new South Africa Coach Ray Jennings , The team started with a win against defending champions Rajasthan Royals but quickly went on to lose a few games afterwards under the captaincy of Kevin Pietersen. However, he had to leave for national duty and captaincy was taken over by former Indian Test captain Anil Kumble. The team fortunes reversed and they beat Deccan Chargers to secure a 3rd place in the round robin stage on IPL2. The side lost four of their first five matches in IPL 2009, but made a startling comeback to make it to the semi-finals (This is one of the best comebacks of IPL-2). In the semi- final they surprisingly beat the Chennai Super Kings who were the most consistent team in the league and crushed their hopes of winning the title.RCB entered the finals and lost to Deccan chargers by just a small margin of 6 runs .

IPL-3
With the addition of Morgan ,Smith to the squad , and also taylor , kallis ,Petersen , Uthappa , Kohli , Styn , Merwe with a good form ..The bowler’s likes of Mithun & Vinay had good ranji season , RCB will fancy their chances for the title .

Apart from these 2 Legends of Indian cricket Anil and Rahul makes team look more strong ...Go RCB go .....