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direct hit might have had him! Rahul nudged almost straight to Chahal at midwicket and just set off. He's only got one stump to aim at, and misses
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Miller opens his account with a drive to long on
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and he steps into a defensive push to point to start, finding the fielder perfectly
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Stoinis breaks through! Against the run of play. And it was a fairly innocuous delivery, just short of a length and straight. Mayank was looking to pull it off the front foot, and didn't bother keeping it down, but the ball has just rushed on quicker than he expected, looping off the splice to be caught by a tumbling C...
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and a nudged single means he keeps the strike
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FOUR runs
too short, Mayank crouching at the crease to get into position for a front-foot pull, and nailing the shot well in front of square
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2 runs
glanced behind square, and they hurry back for the second
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SIX runs
flat and hard! The ball was full, just outside off, and Mayank decided to take on the fielder at long off. He gets just enough on it to beat the leaping fielder, and raises the fifty stand
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1 run
nurdled straight of midwicket, and there's room for a quick single
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Mayank whips across his front pad to collect a single behind square on the leg side
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2 runs
poor line from Stoinis, offering up a very friendly length delivery down the leg side. But some nifty tag-team fielding at the boundary's edge saves runs
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wicket-to-wicket stuff, and it's flicked out to the man in the deep on the leg side
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FOUR runs
short from Stoinis, but he just doesn't have the pace to trouble the bat. Mayank swivels to pull a 130km/h bumper out to deep backward square
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Mayank unfurls a handsome leg glance, but it's directed straight at Chahal, at midwicket inside the circle
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1 run
Rahul backs away, but is content with a firm push down to long on to turn the strike over
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his first ball seams in off a length, Mayank flicking it into the leg side. He wanted more, but couldn't execute
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Saini keeps the speedometer nudging 140 clicks as he ends his over with another delivery that zones in on off stump and is pushed to cover
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chopped down to point, and Rahul wants a single but he's sent back. And rightfully so, as Stoinis swoops and has a shy
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FOUR runs
edged to third man! Saini finds the channel outside off, and Rahul just hangs his bat out at it. There's no slip in place, so it's relatively safe to go fishing. And he's got four for it
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Mayank slashes, but he doesn't get all of this and the ball bounces down to third man, just the single
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FOUR runs
but the riposte from the batsman is immediate, stepping into a smoking drive, on the up, through cover point. It was the width that invited the shot
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is this the edge? Saini's excited, but the umpire shakes his head. There's no doubt about the quality of the delivery though, bursting off a length outside off at better than 140km/h, and beating Mayank's outside edge
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1 run
dabbed down to short third man, and they scoot through for a single
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punched a little awkwardly to cover, but there's room for a single
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under edge on this? Yes, must have been, as he misses a sweep but manages to keep the ball away from his stumps
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FOUR runs
Chahal over-corrects after the last delivery, dropping it short and wide outside off to open up the cover field for Rahul's scything cut
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SIX runs
nothing rushed about this shot, Rahul stepping out to lift a full ball cleanly over wide long on. He was playing against the turn, but kept his balance and pinged it out of the middle
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good start, hurrying Rahul's defence with one that rushes on to him
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good finish to the over, keeping things tight in the channel as Mayank chops to mid off
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he spots a little width outside off and throws himself into a big shot, but ball beats bat
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straighter from Southee, and Mayank can't do anything with the splice-jarring length
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FOUR runs
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FOUR runs
this time Mayank goes the other way, stepping across to the off side to play a neat little pick-up to a scramble-seam delivery from Southee, raising the fifty. That's Kings XI's fastest fifty of the season so far
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Mayank stays leg side of the ball, but Southee follows him and cramps him for room
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punches the back of a length ball outside off to cover
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whips it away over midwicket with disdain practically dripping out of him. He's clearly asking, "really, a leg-stump half-volley? To me? REALLY?"
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looks to chop and run to point byt Klaasen's there and though he's a keeper, he's pretty quick off the blocks. Wonder who he's subbing for
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1 wide
goes full, and a touch too straight, Rahul misses the flick
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1 run
works the back of a length ball towards mid-on
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taken at long-on now and de Villiers holds the pose, standing in front of his beloved RCB fans! Seriously, there's only like three inches between his boots and the boundary and he takes it so florgin coolly! Holds the ball and his hands aloft for a second or two for the photographers and then runs into the huddle. Love...
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dumps a horrible full toss over long-on. That's about the most merciful treatment anyone can dole out to a ball like that.
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fullish on middle, Rahul is content to defend it
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FOUR runs
over the top! He gets a delicious half-volley as reward for the last shot and tucks in with a loft over cover. Oh, this man is going to spoil batting fans for years to come.
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FOUR runs
classical as carnatic music! Leans forward to an innocuous delivery outside the off stump and unceremoniously - but also beautifully - drives it through the covers
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1 run
works it off his hips through square leg. There's a man patrolling that boundary
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good bowling! Saini doesn't get sucked in by his own ego and goes for the slower ball - he does dig it into the wicket though - and Gayle is comfortably beaten on the pull shot
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FOUR runs
bang! The boss is in! And he shows the young tyke what's what by clearing the front leg and drumming a short ball to the straight boundary. O-u-c-h!
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tries to beat point to his left, but the substitute Klaasen isn't so easily beaten and Umesh gets a way with a short and wide one
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looks for the glamour shot over extra cover - and he does play it well - but Umesh's length ball gets just enough nip away off the deck to beat Rahul's blade
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nudges the shortish delivery on middle to midwicket
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good length, outside off, defends
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FOUR runs
length, angling down the leg side, with a little ribbon tied around it. Rahul accepts the glorious gift with a flick to the long leg boundary again
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FOUR runs
that's awesome! He doesn't really have the length or the line to pull the ball - it's actually cramping him and the ball doesn't really rise as much as he'd like - but Rahul holds his shape beautifully and just helps it away to the long leg boundary with a little short-arm pull
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1 wide
back of a length and sliding down the leg side. Rahul leaves and the extras tick over
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FOUR runs
opens the face and carves the full and wide delivery over point. Great start from Gayle. Jeez, don't you usually block the first over out?
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FOUR runs
he's squared up by the ball angling across him, short of a length, but he adjusts just about well enough to slice the ball past the left of short third man
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that's better. Hits the deck. Cramps him up with his line. Gayle still tries to launch it down the ground but he comes up with nothing
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crashes it over point! And languidly at that! It's the equivalent of him waking up and yawning at the sun. Seriously. A length ball allowing him to free the arms? Bad move, Southee
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1 wide
plays keep-away with the ball but it slides a little too far outside the off stump for him to win
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yorker first up to Gayle, who brings the bat down in time and turns it away from middle stump and into midwicket
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1 run
a gentle little nudge off his pads into the midwicket region. Southee searches for some swing, angling it in and getting the ball to straighten just enough
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SIX runs
and a six to finish the innings! The stadium erupts as Stoinis laces a length delivery up and over the leg side to raise the 200
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FOUR runs
the runs keep flowing, Hardus gifting Stoinis a full toss on leg stump. He gets a touch on it, and the pace takes it to the boundary
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Stoinis joins the party! It's a cutter from Viljoen, but it lands in the slot and Stoinis hammers it over long on
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FOUR runs
paddled to deep backward square, Stoinis getting a healthy piece of bat on a full toss from Hardus that was anyway headed down the leg side
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1 run
flapped into the leg side, just the one
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another one! De Villiers brings up the 100 stand with his seventh six, Hardus feeding him a full straight one and AB hammering it over wide long on
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1 leg bye
another massive swipe, but this time the ball beats the bat and pings off his thigh into the off side
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three in a row! This has flown clean out of the park, but it was nothing more than a wild fend from AB as Shami let slip with a high full toss. AB was actually turning his head away to take evasive action as the ball got to him, but somehow the ball finds the middle of the bat and exits the stadium. AB reckons that mig...
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and again! Same ball, same shot, same result. If anything, he hit this one even better. It didn't go as high, but travelled further
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sliced over long off! How has this gone so far? It looked like de Villiers had sliced under this one, but it just kept going and going and going
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1 bye
well bowled by Shami, who changes it up with a slower bouncer that Stoinis can't lay bat on. Again they pinch a bye
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1 bye
just short of a length, outside off, and AB misses his slash but they pinch a bye
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2 runs
full, wide and Stoinis squeezes it out behind point, hurrying back for a second
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Stoinis looks to go big on the leg side, but he hits only fresh air
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1 run
that's much better, Hardus finding his radar with a yorker on middle and off that's dug out to long on
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1 wide
oh dear, that's slipped out way too wide and he'll have to try again
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1 wide
flung much too far outside off, and he'll have to bowl it again
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SIX runs
that forecast might keep going up! De Villiers has absolutely monstered this straight back over the bowler's head. It was a long half volley, but he leathered it with awesome power. And they'll need another ball brought out. For real this time
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FOUR runs
yorker goes awry, Hardus losing his line and sending the ball down the leg side. AB just needs to get bat on ball, and he does so to bring up his fifty
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1 run
Stoinis swings across the line, but he can't get under it and it's just the one to long on
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de Villiers turns himself around into a reverse-slog-sweep, but the ball fizzes past him as he misses the shot
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1 run
flapped down to long on, just the one
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no run
well bowled, floated up but dipping into the blockhole to keep Stoinis quiet
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2 runs
this looked like another carrom ball, but Stoinis spots it and times his slashed cut out to the cover sweeper
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1 run
AB sets himself and slashes from the crease, looking to slice the ball to the left of the cover sweeper, but he can't get it past him
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1 run
flicked with the spin into the leg side to turn the strike over
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1 run
punched to cover, and they chance a quick single
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1 run
nice come-back from the bowler, getting the ball right up to him. De Villiers can't get anything under the ball, instead driving to long off
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into the terraces! De Villiers rocks back to slam a long-hop powerfully over wide midwicket. And that also brings up the fifty partnership
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2 runs
nicely flicked by de Villiers, behind square on the leg side, and Gayle is the fielder at short fine so they're easily back for a second
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1 run
pushed down to long on, just the one - but importantly he hands the strike over
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no run
legbreak, and Stoinis pokes defensively at it from the crease
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nicely bowled. He's under pressure, but he's responded well to bring this over back, ending it with a pinpoint yorker that de Villiers can do nothing with
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1 run
another slow cutter, this one at around 109km/h, and there's a big cheer from the crowd as Gayle fields a gentle push off the pads at square leg
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slower ball at just under 116km/h, and the only damage is a single out to the sweeper
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they might need another ball now! Rajpoot persists with the back-of-a-length stuff, and de Villiers rocks back into a fiery pull, sending the ball way into the stands beyond midwicket
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FOUR runs
flayed in front of square! This wasn't all that short, but de Villiers is camped on the back foot and waiting for it to collect his second boundary
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1 run
flatter, straighter, and Stoinis finds a quick single to short fine leg
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this will help! Very full from Ashwin, too full in fact, and Stoinis' eyes light up. He sends the long half volley arcing back over the bowler's head, and into the first tier of the stands
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