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FOUR, shot! Uses the width outside off and bounce and elevates it over backward point to collect his first boundary
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SIX, goes for the big whammy and succeeds. That was short and has been flat batted over long-on for a huge maximum. Pressure on the youngster
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out Caught by Stokes!! The young man gets the big fish! A luring delivery tossed up outside off and the batsman looking to thwack it down the ground, finds the able hands of Stokes at long-off. That brings the game back in the balance. batsman was struggling to get the runs and pays the penalty trying to up the ante. b...
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out Caught&Bowled!! Looks to go for the slog sweep, the googly undoes him and he manages a big fat top-edge. The high ball comes down for the bowler to pouch that. The trademark celebration from bowler follows. That was a disastrous strike for team as they had lost Amla a couple of balls earlier. The promotion didn't r...
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SIX, MAAMMAAAteamAAAHH! The Big Show has arrived. The showman lays the bat on that and crunches that over the man at long-on. That scaled many a light years before coming down
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FOUR, backs away and then the sledge hammer does the rest. Just like a warrior, wields his weapon to axe the ball past the man at cover
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SIX, slower ball, doesn't matter. That was a dead meat of a delivery and the batsman has picked the bones out of that. It's that time of the season folks - In the arc, it's out of the park. If it's in the V, it's into the trees. Remember the carnage from 2013 against team?
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FOUR, PHHUUUUFFFFF! Such power. He bulldozes that one through the off-side and the man at cover had no chance as there was a lot of room on it
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SIX, backs away by clearing his legs and then sees the ball like a football to have a clear swing at it. The ball soars over the long-off region for a maximum. batsman is taking it away
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SIX, 50 for the combo! That was a short ball, never got enough wood on it but enough on it to send it packing just over the man at mid-wicket. There were shouts of catch it but that region was unmanned
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SIX, the most powerful delivery boy is here. He has sent it packing over the cow corner region. Brutal sinews into that pull and the ball flies away into oblivion
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SIX, has that gone all the way? An overpitched delivery and the batsman checked his drive with power on his bottom hand to hit it flat and just past the diving Christian at long-on. The ball landed on the cushion and the third umpire signalled it as a half-a-dozen
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FOUR, short ball and the swivelled pull. Picks up the length quickly and pivots on his back foot to send it speeding towards the backward square region for a four
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FOUR, 13 off the over after bowling a brilliant first ball. Length ball down leg, batsman gets inside the line and flicks it well past the short fine leg fielder. Easy runs
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SIX, that has been slapped! Short of a length delivery, batsman dances down and wallops it over the bowler's head. Muscled it. Way past the boundary rope
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out Caught by Manoj Tiwary!! First wicket down! bowler sees the batsman charge down and bangs it short. batsman is cramped for room, but still persists with his pull shot. Doesn't middle it and the ball balloons up on the leg-side. Tiwary, who had a good stint with the bat, runs to his left from deep mid-wicket and gob...
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FOUR, nicely done! Shortish delivery outside off, batsman hops, gets on top of the bounce and forces it wide of point. The ball races away into the fence
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SIX, batsman is turning it on here now! He walks down and lifts this shortish ball over mid-off. The ball has enough wings to go into the stands
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1 run, a very tough chance goes down! batsman prods forward and drills the cover drive. Dan Christian, at cover leaps to his right and gets a hand to it. Those are the ones that need to stick. Wasn't the case this time
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FOUR, batsman has come out with a positive intent and that is paying dividends. Finds the gap beautifully on his cover drive. No need to run for shots like that
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FOUR, four more! Safest shot to play is hit it down the ground. Sees the length on a fuller side and lofts it down the ground, left of the bowler and right of mid-on. Safe shot
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out Bowled!! bowler strikes! And he is off! His customary celebratory run. He bamboozles batsman with a googly. It tweaked in at pace as well. batsman doesn't pick the wrong 'un and is also late to bring his bat down. The ball cannons onto the stumps. Through the gap between the bat and the pad. batsman b bowler 14(9) ...
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FOUR, sloppy from Rajat Bhatia at short fine! He was put off by the appeal for lbw from the keeper and bowler. It was the slider which was very full. batsman just about brings his bat down and gets a bit of wood on it. Bhatia over-runs to his left and allows the ball to go past him
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out Bowled!! Cleaned him up!! That was the ferocious inswinger and the batsman without covering the line of the ball looks to play across the line and misses. The sticks go cartwheeling and the bowler takes off with a hand in the air. He does it so often, does bowler. Superb bit of attacking bowling as he got the ball ...
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SIX, good end to the over. A massive end actually. In the arc of the southpaw and the batsman comes up with an explosive response to tonk the ball over the cow corner region
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FOUR, imparts his powers of guiding the edge where he wants. Is happy to stay away from the line, giving his long levers some breathing space and just slashes at a slanter. An obvious outside edge and an even more obvious empty cordon for some free runs here
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out Caught&Bowled!! A tame dismissal. Quite typical of batsman's defences in the early part of his innings. One of those famed stabby defences, just that he cannot keep this one down. But Swapnil decides to help him to an extent, getting his palms and almost grassing it. A three-time juggle before he earns himself a st...
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FOUR, pure timing. And grace. With a sink down on a knee, Tiwary decides to free his arms at a wide overpitched delivery outside off in the form of a slice. Such is the meat on this that he doesn't even bother keeping it down. Almost all the way
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FOUR, gets a long hop. A rank one. And all he has to do is decide where to deposit this one. Decides mid-wicket it is again to take the brunt. Ensures that he doesn't get up early and once again puts his spinning back foot to use in whisking it into the fence
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SIX, and now he lets the off-side take the brunt. Patel in his response fires one out flat and wide. The mind-reader that batsman is, sinks and tonks it through the line
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SIX, the wide yorkers. Prove to be the undoing of Natarajan here. Makes Tiwary reach out making him stretch every cell of his body in getting there. Boy o boy he does. And how. Slices it imparting all the momentum in lofting it over backward point. These tiny boundaries I tell you
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SIX, he's smoking them in. With a gallop down, gets the ball sitting up in his arc and keeps swinging his bat. We are firmly into the baseball zone. Over cow corner
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FOUR, they're turning it on. Tiwary joins the act now. Is mighty helped by a horror line always drifting down leg. Has to ensure that he gets some wood on it and he does it with aplomb. Gets enough to muscle it heave behind square and beat the lone man perched out there
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1 run, clears his front leg and shovels it down the ground. The yorkers keeping him quiet(er). Nevertheless, the half-ton comes up
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out Caught&Bowled!! A smash back. And the perish. Patel smartly keeps denying batsman the opportunity to go through the on-side by firing it wide outside off. Gets the bat up flat on the slap down the ground. Too early once again and all he manages is the cue end that flies back to the upward palms of Patel. So the cha...
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SIX, in the arc, and out of the park. You cannot expect the bowler getting away bowling length at this stage. And Tiwary keeps up with the tradition of dishing out the punishments. Sits up and swings it through the line in tonking it over long-on
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FOUR, a real drag down. The Mohit slower back hander but half way down the ground. All the time for the adjustment and Tiwary does it in executing his crouched pull. Axar did get a hand in his stretch at the fence, the power imparted was enough to burst through a wall though
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FOUR, oh dear. Spots batsman running inside and fires one way down leg. batsman with his stalking eyes always on the ball gets his bat out on the horizontal swiping mode and scoops it away
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FOUR, more of the same. The ploy here from Sandeep refuses to change and batsman too refuses to stand up on his feet against this length. Does all he can to get under the ball and keeps his bat on the scoop. This time right over the keeper
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SIX, a switch to over the wicket makes no difference. Pounds it short, pounds it wide and batsman unleashes the mighty forehand smash. The concrete on the stands taking a real beating here
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out Caught by Maxwell!! Shovels it to his doom. Only after having done his job to perfection. Sandeep gets the yorker right and batsman gets his bat down off a massive backlift in shovelling it out. Not quite the elevation this time with the ball flying down to long-on. batsman c Maxwell b bowler 17(8) [4s-2 6s-1]
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1 run, DROPPED!! The man at cover - Vohra had enough time to settle down under it by going back but he makes a meal of it. That was a nothing shot to a length ball and the ball scooped high up in the air and never scaled any distance. Vohra was put off by Natarajan at mid-off who was just beside him. The former could s...
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SIX, OLLLLAALLLAAAA! That was some response from batsman to a short ball. He loved the aroma on the perfume ball and accepted it with glee. That drop might well be costly
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FOUR, opens the face of the blade on impact and runs it down to third man for a four. Cheeky from batsman as used the pace of the bowler and knew his angles to perfection
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FOUR, gets the room to free his arms and creams the ball away into the covers. No one moved as the ball sped away into the off-side
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FOUR, creates room by going leg-sidish, got the room to expand his arms and then threads the ball away between cover and extra cover for back-to-back fours. Innovation and batsman go hand in hand
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out Caught by Stoinis!! There you go! The young man strikes. Whatta moment for him. A length delivery slanting away, batsman looks to drive on the up, hits it uppishly and finds the safe hands of Stoinis in the sweeper region on the off-side. The fielder was looking into the sun, so he steadied himself, got a hand up t...
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FOUR, shot of the day? Shot of the tourney so far? Pardon the exaggeration but that was serene from the skipper. That was a slower delivery and the batsman just leant his weight forward on it with a straight face of the bat touching the ball. The man at mid-on and at long-off dived over the ball to allow a deserving fo...
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out Caught by Vohra!! HUGEEEEE WICKKKETTTT for team. That was a leading edge as the ball held onto the surface for the batsman to not control the whippy pull. The man in the deep - Vohra, this time settles down and takes a smart catch at the edge of the boundary. It almost carried all the way. Pune in trouble now. bats...
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FOUR, loose delivery. It's drifting onto the pads and all batsman has to do is help it on its way. team can ill afford these errors, especially when they're defending a sub-par score
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FOUR, that's quite the blooper from Mills at third man. He might have taken his eyes off and the ball sneaks through him and over the ropes. Nice little glide from batsman, shouldn't have been anything more than a single
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out Caught by Binny!! bowler rushes batsman and gets rid of him. Really tame dismissal actually. He's pulling on the front foot, the ball is onto him quicker than expected and it hits him right on the splice. It spoons up for an easy catch to long-on. Bangalore keep hitting back, they keep fighting. batsman c Binny b b...
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SIX, that's a really good short ball from bowler. batsman is unable to control the pull as he tries to fetch it over his head and nearly holes out. But these are short boundaries. The ball lobs up to the left of Binny at deep square leg, who runs backwards and leaps across but can only palm it over the ropes
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FOUR, yeah, Abdulla is in a fix here. He doesn't want to be bowling in Abdulla's arc, but there is no one out in the deep to protect the cut either. He ends up straying wide of off and batsman slaps it through point
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SIX, now he gets closer to off, batsman goes down on one knee and wallops it over wide long-on. This is superb batting from the 19-year old. He's putting Abdulla under tremendous pressure
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out Lbw!! The ball slides on with the arm, clips both the pads and up goes the finger. Morris was caught in the crease there to a flat ball from round the wicket, and then he made the mistake of playing across the line. That would have hit leg-stump. So Bangalore have struck back as soon as Delhi threatened to surge ah...
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out Bowled!! bowler's got him the very next ball and he is absolutely pumped. This is serious drama in Bangalore. A beautifully flighted leg-break which drifts in on leg, the ball dips on batsman, lands away from him as he slogs and sneaks under him. batsman b bowler 1(5)
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FOUR, batsman keeps stroking them beautifully at the other end. He clearly holds the fate of his team now. It's a full ball on off and batsman has timed the pants of it as he flicks it through mid-wicket. The placement is brilliant too
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FOUR, bowler has erred big-time with the leg-cutter and Cummins gets him away. It's well down the leg-side and Cummins whips it over short fine leg for four. It was so close to clearing the boundary
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out Bowled!! It swings one way, and then the other. bowler hits back with a vengeance. A good length delivery which is in the slot for the slog, but the ball nips in just a touch to cause the error from Cummins. He chops it back on off an inside edge. The crowd is right in this. batsman b bowler 6(6) [4s-1]
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1 run, beautiful slower ball, it's all the more effective with Mills bowling it. batsman is deceived by the lack of pace and he has to reach out as a result. He skews it right off the toe-end to mid-on. It's fifty for batsman. Superb knock, but he has to go all the way
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SIX, Rishabh batsman, you beauty! This is some stunning cricket we're witnessing here. He takes on the short ball, and pulls it away over the fine leg boundary. It was a thick top-edge there actually but with Mills's pace, it travelled
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out Bowled!! bowler has done it. That is surely the game for the team. batsman moves across towards off, bowler may or may not have seen that but he fires it on leg-stump and uproots it. A real valiant effort from batsman comes to an end. He's dragging himself off. Got to feel for him. batsman b bowler 57(36) [4s-3 6s-...
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out Caught&Bowled!! bowler tosses this up and lands it far enough from batsman to make him reach out for the slog. The ball turns, takes a thick leading edge and lobs up. bowler doesn't leave it for anyone else, he runs backwards and grabs it so well. Made it look easy there. batsman c and b bowler 0(2)
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FOUR, picked away into the leg-side again. bowler searching for swing, pitching it right up, but the ball goes on with the angle and ends up on the pads. He has to adjust his line. Too many freebies
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FOUR, oh well, put the mockers on him there. But again, as soon as he tries to pitch the ball up expecting it to swing, he ends up on the pads. Whipped away gloriously from batsman over square leg
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FOUR, that's flown between keeper and slip. Gayle, standing at slip, didn't even have time to react. It was too close to cut. batsman made some room and slashed at it off the stumps. Lucky to get away. Not just get away, he's gotten four
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out Bowled!! Mills has struck. A fierce short of length delivery which skids on, keeps a bit low and nips back in from round the wicket. batsman makes room once more and has a slash at it but he's played over the ball by six inches at least. It pummels the off-stump. batsman b bowler 18(17) [4s-3]
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FOUR, climbs from a back of a length, finds the outside edge pretty high up on the bat and runs away to the third man boundary. batsman was driving on the up there. Highly ambitious
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out Bowled!! It's game on here at the Chinnaswamy! batsman has played completely down the wrong line of a full ball and is castled comprehensively. The crowd erupts. Rusty footwork from batsman as he presses forward to drive, the ball didn't seem to do a great deal. Might have held its line a touch if anything. batsman...
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SIX, oh my days! This is thrilling cricket. batsman goes down low and wallops the reverse-sweep for six. He's known for this. It was right in the slot too after bowler flighted it up
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out Caught by Stanlake!! batsman has been completely outsmarted. What clever bowling from Abdulla. He enticingly tosses this on up and ensures to keep it very wide of off. Seeing the flight, batsman is lured into having a go at it but he's not quite to the pitch of the ball and has to reach out for it. The ball turns a...
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SIX, holy smokes, the nerves these guys have got! First ball, batsman sashays down the track and wallops the ball over deep mid-wicket. He was playing with the turn, so not a bad option. But to do that first ball is something else. This is a roller-coster, this match
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FOUR, short of length into the body, batsman swivels across on the back foot and helps the pull behind square. He's placed it in the gap perfectly. Fine leg and deep square leg have no chance. batsman taking Mills on
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FOUR, cracking shot, nice way to get going, that should give batsman plenty of confidence, length delivery on his pads, he prods across and clips it in front of square on the on-side, beats the infield and rolls away to the fence
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FOUR, batsman is at his best in the opening slot and he has started well for team. On a good length and well outside off, he leans forward, plays with an open face and drives it on the up, beats cover and rolls away to the fence
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FOUR, Cummins makes a mess of a simple stop and concedes a boundary. On a good length and holding its line outside off, batsman went for the big drive, gets a thick edge over backward point. Cummins did all the running, slid and stopped the ball, but it hit his legs and rolled onto the ropes
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FOUR, creamed, low full-toss from Morris, batsman waits on it, leans forward and punches it in front of square on the off-side, beats cover-point and rolls away to the fence
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FOUR, much needed boundary for team, on a good length and angling back into the right-hander, he uses the pace on the bat, opens up slightly and shovels it wide of mid-wicket. Mishra put in the dive - but in vain
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SIX, massive, Kedar breaks the shackles, this was well tossed up on off, right into the swinging zone of Kedar, he gets forward and sends it high and into the second tier - over long-on
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FOUR, pushed through flatter and wider of off, Kedar makes room and flat-bats the slap - beats bowler and races away to the fence in a jiffy
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FOUR, cracking shot, tossed up on the stumps, Kedar shimmies down the track, gets close to the ball and lifts it back over the bowler's head, almost went all the way, one bounce and over the ropes
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SIX, 24 from the over. team needed something and bowler has gifted them a perfect launching pad. Kedar is in some form alright. This was tossed up slower and wider outside off, Kedar bends down his knees and clubs it high and over long-on, went a long way over the ropes
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FOUR, cracking shot, that's Kedar's own version of MSD's helicopter shot. This was full and on the stumps, Kedar was deep inside the crease as he whipped it wide of mid-wicket, no chance for the man running across from long-on
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SIX, freaky, this is sensational from Kedar, length delivery on off, he makes room by backing away and goes inside out over cover, went all the way over the ropes
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2 runs, fifty for Kedar, this has been a superb innings, short and just outside off, he backed away and cut it to the left of point. Billings put in the dive, made the stop and fired in a throw at the striker's end, concedes another run
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FOUR, mistimed shots are finding the gaps now, this was short and on the stumps, Kedar was late on the pull, gets a top-edge - the fielder at square leg was inside the ring and Kedar has managed to get it over his head
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out Caught by Billings!! Lovely shot - but batsman has found deep mid-wicket to perfection. This was full and on his pads, batsman gets forward and whips it beautifully - but unfortunately for him, the placement wasn't right. Straight into the hands of Billings and he doesn't drop those. A small contribution from batsm...
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FOUR, smashed, length delivery on the stumps, Kedar backs away and thumps it back over the bowler's head, one bounce and over the ropes
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SIX, cracking shot, he's in some devastating form at the moment - Kedar. Length delivery from bowler, that's a cardinal sin for any bowler. Kedar gets his left leg out of the way and drills it back over the bowler's head, went high and into the top tier of the Chinnaswamy
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SIX, he's done it several times for Kerala - he's showing why team picked him up as KL's replacement. Runs down the track, gets close to the ball and lifts it over long-on for a maximum
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out batsman Run Out!! That was completely unnecessary from batsman and it has cost him his wicket. This was a floaty delivery outside off, Vinod got underneath it and drilled it towards extra-cover. Almost a catch to Nadeem, he doesn't go for it though, instead, stops it on the half-volley, the return to the bowler is ...
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out Caught by Chris Morris!! That's another huge wicket and team are losing their way towards the end. Lovely piece of deception from bowler. He followed the slower short ball with another slower ball, rolled his fingers across the seam. Kedar was backing away on the lofted drive, gets it right off the bottom of the ba...
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SIX, batsman connects one finally! This was the slower full-toss from Morris, batsman backed away, got underneath the delivery and sends it soaring over long-off for a maximum
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out Bowled!! Morris gets his yorker right and batsman's stumps go for a walk. This was fast, this was full and this was on the middle-stump line. batsman backs away on the drive, misses and simply walks back to the pavilion. batsman b bowler 10(8) [6s-1]
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out Bowled!! Morris gets another wicket with a juicy full-toss. team finish with just 157 on the board. Mills made room on the drive, missed and the off-stump goes for a walk. batsman b bowler 0(3)
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FOUR, lovely, just a hint of width outside off, batsman made it look bad by arching back slightly, frees his arms and sends the cut scorching behind square on the off-side, beats third man - running to his right
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out Caught by Samson!! A high full-toss has got rid of the big Jamaican. batsman looked surprised, was looking to blast it over the top, can't get on top of the ball, it hit him high on the bat and lobbed over Samson at mid-off. He ran back, kept his eyes on the ball even as it landed beyond his shoulder, dives and clu...
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FOUR, that ruins the over for Morris, another full-toss, but this time on batsman's pads, he gets inside the line and helps it on its way. Nice way to get going
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FOUR, cracking shot, back of a length and well outside off, batsman rides with the bounce and punches it in front of square on the off-side, beats cover and rolls away to the fence