De Villiers, Kohli consign Lions to heaviest-ever IPL defeat
Chris Gayle's lean patch extended to his fifth match in the tournament as Gujarat Lions had an early breakthrough after inserting Royal Challengers Bangalore AFP
AB de Villiers came in and got going immediately with a back-foot six over cover BCCI
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Virat Kohli was more sedate at the other end, his first 20 runs coming at a run a ball BCCI
De Villiers was beaten by Ravindra Jadeja in the ninth over and managed to get back in time to survive a stumping. But otherwise, he hardly put a foot wrong BCCI
De Villiers' half-century took just 25 balls BCCI
A sequence of six, six, four, six, and a single off Praveen Kumar in the 16th over raised his century off 43 balls BCCI
Kohli was on 52 off 41 balls with just three overs left, before he sensationally accelerated BCCI
Such was the carnage that the Royal Challengers captain raised his century - his third of IPL 2016 - with three deliveries remaining BCCI
Lions struck off the final two deliveries of the innings, but the Kohli-de Villiers stand of 229 came off just 96 balls and took Royal Challengers to 248 for 3 BCCI
Overcast conditions meant there was the threat of rain, but it only rained fours and sixes as the crowd at the M Chinnaswamy stadium got their money's worth BCCI
Dwayne Smith paid the price for playing across the line and was cleaned up by one that kept low AFP
Brendon McCullum got his eye in, but holed out to de Villiers at long-off in a bid to accelerate BCCI
De Villiers was once again in the thick of the action and took a good catch running backwards to send back Dinesh Karthik AFP
Ravindra Jadeja got off to a fluent start before popping a return catch to Chris Jordan to fall for 21 off 19 BCCI
Yuzvendra Chahal removed Bravo and Akshdeep Nath to leave Lions 69 for 6. Chahal ended with 3 for 19 in four overs for his best IPL figures BCCI
Aaron Finch top-scored with 37, but it was scant compensation as Lions failed to stem the rot and were bowled out for 104, slipping to a 144-run defeat - the heaviest-ever in the IPL BCCI
Chris Jordan did the bulk of the damage for Royal Challengers, finishing with career-best figures of 4 for 11 BCCI
