Mitchell Starc set the tone for Royal Challengers Bangalore, beating Dwayne Smith four times off the first five deliveries before bowling him on the sixth ball BCCI
Brendon McCullum settled into his groove with back-to-back fours off Starc but David Wiese caused him to hole out to deep midwicket in the last over of Powerplay BCCI
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Suresh Raina (52) and Faf du Plessis then rebuilt the innings with a busy 64-run partnership...... BCCI
....Before both were undone by Harshal Patel BCCI
MS Dhoni struck 29 off 18 balls, but Super Kings lost their last seven wickets for 50 runs to be restricted to 148 for 9 BCCI
Royal Challengers were reduced to 34 for 3 in their chase; Ishwar Pandey taking the prized scalp of AB de Villiers BCCI
Dinesh Karthik joined Virat Kohli, who was dropped on 25, and put the chase back on track with a 63-run stand BCCI
However, some sensational piece of fielding from Dwayne Bravo off his own bowling had Kohli run out for 48 in a decisive passage of play BCCI
Karthik picked out deep backward square leg off the next ball and Royal Challengers' chase unravelled quickly. Their last seven wickets tumbled for 27 runs as Super Kings clinched a low-scoring game BCCI
