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Royal Challengers crush Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets

Royal Challengers crush Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets

Royal Challengers Bangalore Skipper Anil Kumble with team mates celebrates the wicket of Rajasthan Royals Michael Lumb during their match in the Indian Premiere League season-3 championship in BangaloPremium

Royal Challengers Bangalore Skipper Anil Kumble with team mates celebrates the wicket of Rajasthan Royals Michael Lumb during their match in the Indian Premiere League season-3 championship in Bangalo

Bangalore: Praveen Kumar recorded the first hat-trick of Indian Premier League III as a dominant Royal Challengers Bangalore mauled a sorry-looking Rajasthan Royals by 10 wickets to notch up their second consecutive win in the Twenty20 tournament in Bangalore on Thursday night.

Praveen (3/18) notched up the seventh hat-trick in the tournament’s history, while skipper Anil Kumble and Jacques Kallis (2/20) ably supported him from the other end to restrict the Rajasthan side under the three figure mark.

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Delhi Daredevils’ Amit Mishra, Chennai Super Kings duo of L Balaji and Makhaya Ntini, Kings XI Punjab’s Yuvraj Singh (twice) and Deccan Chargers’ Rohit Sharma had achieved the feat in the previous editions of the event.

Royal Challengers Bangalore Skipper Anil Kumble with team mates celebrates the wicket of Rajasthan Royals Michael Lumb during their match in the Indian Premiere League season-3 championship in Bangalore on thrusday. Shailendra Bhojak/PTI

Kallis continued his good showing with the bat with a sparkling unbeaten 44 while Pandey blossomed in the South African’s company, scoring an elegant 42 innings.

Kallis’ 34-ball essay was embellished with seven boundaries, while Pandey, the first Indian to score an IPL century last season, struck as many and a six in his entertaining 30 ball innings.

With this victory, Royal Challengers have registered two wins out of three matches they have played so far, while Rajasthan Royals have slumped to their third successive defeat in the tournament.

Earlier, Yusuf Pathan, who was reprieved twice, showed glimpses of brilliance, scoring 26 runs off 24 balls with the help of two sixes and a four, while Martyn innings’ (19 off 24) was a struggle.

Royals batting came a cropper today as after Yusuf and Martyn, only two other batsmen — Naman Ojha (16 off 18) and Michael Lumb (10 off 18) — could only manage double figures.

Brought back into the attack in the 17th over, Praveen first bowled Martyn of the second delivery of his third over, had Sumit Narwal brilliantly caught at square leg by Manish Pandey and then castled Paras Dogra of the next ball to the delight of the capacity crowd.

SCORE BOARD

Royal Challengers

Manish Pandey (42) not out, Jacques Kallis (44) not out

Bowling: Munaf Patel 3-0-23-0, Morne Morkel 3-0-34-0, Shane Warne 2-0-12-0, Sumit Narwal 2.4-0-24-0.

Rajasthan Royals

Naman Ojha c Uthappa b Kallis 16; Michael Lumb st Boucher b Kumble 10; Damien Martyn b Praveen 19; Abhishek Jhunjunwala b Kallis 5; Yusuf Pathan run out 26; Paras Dogra b Praveen 3; Sumit Narwal c Pandey b Praveen 0; Shane Warne b Kumble 4; Morne Morkel st Boucher b Kumble 2; Munaf Patel run out 0; Siddarth Triwedi not out 0

Bowling: Praveen 4-0-18-3, Steyn 4-0-18-0, Vinay Kumar 4-0-25-0, Kallis 4-0-22- 2, Kumble 3.5-0-9-3

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Published: 19 Mar 2010, 01:15 AM IST
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