IPL 6: Kohli's blitz takes RCB to victory

Bangalore - Virat Kohli played a captain’s knock in Royal Challengers Bangalore‘s chase of 162-run target set by Sunrisers Hyderabad here at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium Tuesday.

Delhi boy Kohli made an unbeaten 47-ball 93, studded by 11 fours and four sixes, to take the home side past Sunrisers’ 161/6 with seven wickets in hand and 14 balls to spare.

Mayank Aggarwal (29) was the second highest scorer for Bangalore.

Sunrisers Hyderabad

Akshath Reddy c Vinay Kumar b Singh 12

Parthiv Patel b Muralitharan 20

Kumar Sangakkara c Kohli b Kartik 23

Cameron White c de Villiers b Vinay Kumar 52

Thisara Perera b Singh 40

Ashish Reddy b Singh 3

Hanuma Vihari not out 4

Biplab Samantray not out 2

Extras (w 4, nb 1) 5

Total (Six wickets in 20 overs) 161

Fall of wickets: 1-12 (Reddy, 2.1 overs), 2-50 (Patel, 7.5), 3-62 (Sangakkara, 10.2), 4-142 (Perera, 17.4), 5-155 (White, 18.6), 6-155 (Ashish Reddy, 19.1)

Bowling

Rudra Pratap Singh 4-0-27-3

Vinay Kumar 4-0-43-1

Jaydev Unadkat 4-0-29-0

Muttiah Muralitharan 4-0-23-1

Murali Kartik 3-0-21-1

Moises Henriques 1-0-18-0

Royal Challengers Bangalore

Mayank Agarwal c Sangakkara b Perera 29

Chris Gayle c Patel b Sharma 13

V Kohli not out 93

AB de Villiers c Vihari b White 15

Moises Henriques not out 7

Extras (lb 1, w 4) 5

Total (Three wickets in 17.4 overs) 162

Fall of wickets: 1-39 (Agarwal, 5.1 overs), 2-47 (Gayle, 6.1), 3-96 (de Villiers, 11.6)

Bowling

Hanuma Vihari 1-0-12-0

Dale Steyn 4-0-16-0

Ishant Sharma 3.4-0-30-1

Thisara Perera 3-0-35-1

Amit Mishra 4-0-42-0

Ashish Reddy 1-0-12-0

Cameron White 1-0-14-1

Match details:

Toss: Sunrisers Hyderabad chose to bat

Umpires: S. Ravi and Simon Taufel (Australia)

TV umpire: C.K. Nandan

Match referee: David Boon (Australia)

Reserve umpire: K.N. Ananthapadmanabhan