Bangalore, April 16: Rising Pune Supergiant managed to restrict Royal Challengers Bangalore to 134 for the loss of nine wickets as they defended their total of 161 to win the match by 27 runs. Ben Stokes and Shardul Thakur led the pack for RPS taking three wickets apiece while Jaydev Unadkat and Imran Tahir chipped in with two and one respectively.
Pune bowlers choked Bangalore and gave their team the first win over their opponents in three tries. Chasing a target of 162 at the M Chinnaswamy stadium, Bangalore failed to get going and ended by 27 runs short of the target after losing nine wickets in 20 overs.
It was a disappointing outing for the home team as they lost wickets at regular intervals and never looked like on course of chasing the total.
The Bangalore unit were so miserable that for 24th ball to the 91st ball, only a six was hit by its batsmen. At the end of the fourth over, Virat Kohli had hit Shardul Thakur for a four and it was only Stuart Binny who hit Ben Stokes for four off the first ball of the 16th over. Inbetween, a six from AB de Villiers at 8.4 overs was the only boundary.
Mandeep Singh and Kohli got the chase underway for Bangalore but Thakur had the former caught behind in the second over for a duck. Kohli was the second wicket to fall when he could not control a short ball from Stokes. He came down the pitch and was in no position to play the shot. He slapped it high and was caught by Rahane at sweeper.
