Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Parthiv Patel	b Pietersen	30	26	41	2	1	115.38

Matthew Hayden	run out (Dravid)	65	35	43	9	2	185.71

Suresh Raina	c Kohli b Kumar	28	29	31	1	1	96.55

MS Dhoni (c)†	c Bishnoi b Kumar	16	14	17	0	1	114.28

Andrew Flintoff	not out	22	13	18	2	1	169.23
Albie Morkel	b Steyn	5	3	5	1	0	166.66

Extras	(lb 5, w 8)	13
Total	20 Ov (RR: 8.95, 79 Mins)	179/5
Did not bat S Badrinath, Joginder Sharma, Lakshmipathy Balaji, Manpreet Gony, Muthiah Muralidaran
Fall of wickets 1-106 (Parthiv Patel, 10.1 ov), 2-106 (Matthew Hayden, 10.2 ov), 3-144 (MS Dhoni, 15.6 ov), 4-165 (Suresh Raina, 18.6 ov), 5-179 (Albie Morkel, 19.6 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Praveen Kumar	4	0	37	2	9.25	8	0	0
15.6 to MS Dhoni, finally Bangalore hold on to a catch. Samrt bowling by PK, Dhoni wants to go over long-on, PK has bowled a legcutter, and the thick outside edge takes it to Bishnoi at long-off, an absolute sitter. 144/3 18.6 to SK Raina, slower ball, from round the stumps, angling in, and Raina goes on side, lofted shot, and can't clear Kohli at long-on... the UP bowler has the last laugh in this mini UP battle, incidentally during a match being played between two plays from South India. 165/4
Dale Steyn	4	0	35	1	8.75	9	2	0
19.6 to JA Morkel, don't rile a fast man. This is full and fast and ferocious, Albie makes room, but his bat comes down after the ball has hit the off stump, an angry Steyn looks at the umpire, and gestures perhaps meaning to say, "That wasn't wide, was it?" or perhaps "So what, the wide didn't cost me much, the extra ball got me a wicket.". 179/5
Jacques Kallis	2	0	28	0	14.00	1	0	0
Vinay Kumar	1	0	12	0	12.00	1	0	0
Virat Kohli	1	0	9	0	9.00	3	0	0
Anil Kumble	4	0	26	0	6.50	7	1	0
Kevin Pietersen	3	0	14	1	4.66	7	0	0
10.1 to PA Patel, Will he ever? Strategy time-out has worked for Bangalore. KP bowls full and straight, and Parthiv slog-sweeps all over it, and Uthappa collects the off stumps. 106/1
Ross Taylor	1	0	13	0	13.00	0	1	0

Royal Challengers Bangalore (T: 180 runs from 20 ovs)

Batting		R	B	M	4s	6s	SR
Praveen Kumar	b Gony	0	3	1	0	0	0.00

Robin Uthappa †	st †Dhoni b Muralidaran	20	19	38	2	0	105.26

Jacques Kallis	lbw b Morkel	24	19	22	5	0	126.31

Ross Taylor	c & b Flintoff	1	4	8	0	0	25.00

Kevin Pietersen (c)	lbw b Muralidaran	0	1	3	0	0	0.00

Rahul Dravid	c Flintoff b Balaji	20	18	35	2	0	111.11

Virat Kohli	c Badrinath b Joginder Sharma	11	13	12	0	1	84.61

Rajesh Bishnoi	c Balaji b Muralidaran	0	1	2	0	0	0.00

Vinay Kumar	c Hayden b Balaji	5	6	5	0	0	83.33

Dale Steyn	run out (Raina/†Dhoni)	0	3	-	0	0	0.00

Anil Kumble	not out	1	5	8	0	0	20.00
Extras	(lb 1, w 4)	5
Total	15.2 Ov (RR: 5.67, 71 Mins)	87
Fall of wickets 1-0 (Praveen Kumar, 0.3 ov), 2-40 (Jacques Kallis, 5.2 ov), 3-47 (Ross Taylor, 6.5 ov), 4-49 (Kevin Pietersen, 7.3 ov), 5-50 (Robin Uthappa, 7.5 ov), 6-66 (Virat Kohli, 10.5 ov), 7-66 (Rajesh Bishnoi, 11.1 ov), 8-74 (Vinay Kumar, 12.4 ov), 9-78 (Dale Steyn, 13.3 ov), 10-87 (Rahul Dravid, 15.2 ov)

Bowling	O	M	R	W	ECON	0s	WD	NB
Manpreet Gony	3	0	24	1	8.00	8	2	0
0.3 to P Kumar, full, straight, thank you PK, plays all over it, and Gony gets the leg stump. Smart bowling, two bouncers, followed by a full, slower delivery. 0 for 1 after three balls, and the opening experiment has failed for Bangalore. 0/1
Lakshmipathy Balaji	2.2	0	18	2	7.71	6	0	0
12.4 to R Vinay Kumar, fulltoss, and what does Vinay kumar do? lobs it to Hayden at midwicket, and an easy catch despite the highly distractionous [not a word, but what the heck] orange cap. Bangalore sink in further. 74/8 15.2 to R Dravid, it's all over tonight for Bangalore. It was another leg-side half-volley, Dravid looks for a six over square leg, but picks Flintoff perfectly. 87/10
Albie Morkel	2	0	12	1	6.00	7	1	0
5.2 to JH Kallis, Kallis improvises too much for his own good, he walks across a long way, is beaten by a straight and full delivery, pitched outside off, will be touch and go whether it hit him in line. Yepp it hit him in line, and would have taken middle and leg. 40/2
Andrew Flintoff	3	0	11	1	3.66	10	0	0
6.5 to LRPL Taylor, and a frustrated Taylor plays a horrendous shot, the ball goes straight up, ending just to the right of the non-strikers' end, and Flintoff is ready there with his buckets. Superb pressure bowling, and he gets instant results. 47/3
Muthiah Muralidaran	4	1	11	3	2.75	16	0	0
7.3 to KP Pietersen, and he gets KP first ball for a golden duck, and KP is showing Simon Taufel the bat, this one pitched on off, and straightened up, hitting KP in line, with the bat very close to the ball. Pietersen is not a happy man. 49/4 7.5 to RV Uthappa, Murali you beauty! Flight, draws Uthappa out, dips, keeping it short of where Uthappa expected, and then turns it away, and beats the bat, and Dhoni completes a sharp stumping, Bangalore reeling. 50/5 11.1 to R Bishnoi, No. 3 for Murali, flighted, on pads, and Bishnoi, making his debut, gets stuck into it. Little problem, no real elevation, and the long-on is wide, so that it falls straight into his lap. 66/7
Joginder Sharma	1	0	10	1	10.00	2	1	0
10.5 to V Kohli, and Jogi hits back, a touch slower, Kohli looks to loft iot, no foot movement, and it goes miles in the air, towards extra cover, Badri and Raina converge, the calling seems clear as only Badri goes for it and holds on. 66/6