Finally Rajastan Royal tasted a victory at the expense of KKR, that too more due to the tactical errors from Ganguly rather than their own gameplan. No doubt, they had put up a much better show in the batting department, posting a respectable total of 168,but this total, by no means was a winning one.
As it turned out to be, Ganguly, like always, over estimated his batiing abilities just a bit and decided to walk ahead of Owais Shah and Angelo Mathews, the inform batsmen, who have already won a match for them with their bats. When he got out, he had scored 33 playing 29 balls, which in effect were five valuable overs. Its quite ok, if you do so when you have lost a few early wickets, even in this format, but under yesterday's circumstances, it was criminal. You have to give your best guys a go at the earliest, which might even mean Pujara needs to come after Shah and Mathews. You have only 20 overs and you gotta maximise them.
Let's hope Ganguly learns his lessons quickly.
The other match was supposed to be a cliff hanger. But 3 wicket in an over from Vinay Kumar, forced MI to settle for a much lower total than what they had been doing earlier in this tournament. It took some lusty hitting from Zaheer Khan towards the end of the innings, that took them to 150 plus.
Going by their form, it was going to be a relatively easy target for the RCB, with Kallis in tremendus touch, and all other batsmen rallying around him.
Thats exactly what happened and the RCB with three wins moved to the top of the table.
What a run they are having!
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