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| IPL eliminator: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals – live! | IPL eliminator: Royal Challengers Bangalore v Rajasthan Royals – live! |
| (34 minutes later) | |
| 3.39pm BST15:39 | |
| 2nd over: Bangalore 10-0 (Gayle 7, Kohli 3) It’s a risk is this, this is, is this - Faulkner to Gayle, with only two men outside the circle. He starts well, though, ceding just two singles from his first four deliveries. Perhaps Bangalore had a look at how Mumbai did it last evening - keeping wickets in hand after sensible early hitting, so that everyone could go at the death. What a mess here, but, Gayle turning to fine-leg, setting off, not setting off, setting off, and then, when the throw arrived at the keeper’s, Faulkner wasn’t behind the stumps at the non-striker’s to take care of business when the throw didn’t hit directly. | |
| 3.34pm BST15:34 | |
| 1st over: Bangalore 5-0 (Gayle 5, Kohli 0) Morris in, and finds some swing first up, but his second delivery is right into Gayle’s slot outside off, and here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to chop off your head, chip, chop, cho, chop - and the ball speeds through cover to the fence. But Morris responds with three dots, before the final ball is cut away for a single. Acceptable start for all. | |
| 3.31pm BST15:31 | |
| Of we go! | |
| 3.28pm BST15:28 | |
| It’s not at all easy to see how Rajasthan’s bowlers are going to handle this. I believe that’s what’s known as a hot-take. | |
| 3.09pm BST15:09 | |
| Team news: for Bangalore, Aravind replaces Dinda; for Rajasthan, Sharma replaces Sran. | |
| 3.05pm BST15:05 | 3.05pm BST15:05 |
| Virat wins the toss and Bangalore will bat. | Virat wins the toss and Bangalore will bat. |
| “I would of” says Steven Smith when asked if he’d have done the same. In this week of post-Stannis Baratheon and Don Draper grammar correction, I’m afraid that’s got to be noted. | |
| Updated at 3.21pm BST | |
| 3.00pm BST15:00 | 3.00pm BST15:00 |
| State of these squads! | State of these squads! |
| Bangalore: V Kohli*, VR Aaron, SA Abbott, AN Ahmed, S Aravind, S Badrinath, SA Bhavane, MS Bisla, YS Chahal, AB de Villiers, AB Dinda, CH Gayle, Iqbal Abdulla, KD Karthik†, SN Khan, NJ Maddinson, Mandeep Singh, HV Patel, RR Rossouw, DJG Sammy, S Sandeep Warrier, Jalaj S Saxena, MA Starc, YV Takawale, D Wiese, VH Zol. | Bangalore: V Kohli*, VR Aaron, SA Abbott, AN Ahmed, S Aravind, S Badrinath, SA Bhavane, MS Bisla, YS Chahal, AB de Villiers, AB Dinda, CH Gayle, Iqbal Abdulla, KD Karthik†, SN Khan, NJ Maddinson, Mandeep Singh, HV Patel, RR Rossouw, DJG Sammy, S Sandeep Warrier, Jalaj S Saxena, MA Starc, YV Takawale, D Wiese, VH Zol. |
| Rajasthan: SR Watson*, Ankit Sharma, B Brainder Sran, R Bhatia, STR Binny, BCJ Cutting, JP Faulkner, DJ Hooda, DS Kulkarni, VS Malik, CH Morris, KK Nair, AM Nayar, AM Rahane, P Sahu, D Salunkhe, SV Samson†, SPD Smith, TG Southee, PV Tambe, R Tewatia, J Theron, SV Trivedi, DH Yagnik†. | Rajasthan: SR Watson*, Ankit Sharma, B Brainder Sran, R Bhatia, STR Binny, BCJ Cutting, JP Faulkner, DJ Hooda, DS Kulkarni, VS Malik, CH Morris, KK Nair, AM Nayar, AM Rahane, P Sahu, D Salunkhe, SV Samson†, SPD Smith, TG Southee, PV Tambe, R Tewatia, J Theron, SV Trivedi, DH Yagnik†. |
| 2.56pm BST14:56 | 2.56pm BST14:56 |
| Preamble | Preamble |
| Life being life, it’s not unusual to experience competing sensations simultaneously; fear and intoxication, joy and realism, connection and alienation. And that’s probably where Rajasthan and Bangalore find themselves now: grateful to be playing in this game, aggravated that it’s necessary. But here they are and here we are, for what is already fascinating and may well become spectacular. | Life being life, it’s not unusual to experience competing sensations simultaneously; fear and intoxication, joy and realism, connection and alienation. And that’s probably where Rajasthan and Bangalore find themselves now: grateful to be playing in this game, aggravated that it’s necessary. But here they are and here we are, for what is already fascinating and may well become spectacular. |
| Updated at 2.58pm BST | Updated at 2.58pm BST |