The boxing game has ended. The two puglists didn't punch each other. They punched helpless punching bags or should I say bowlers. In the end, SRH landed more blows than RCB. Who wants to be a bowler? 277 few nights back, 287 today. SRH are setting some stern benchmarks for T20 batting. Head had a massive tailwind to start off and scored a ton off 39 balls. Klaasen at 3 carried on like he does and Samad blasted a 10-ball 37. RCB were out-batted. Faf and Kohli came out all guns blazing. But Kohli fell and that opened the door for a collapse as Markande and Cummins ate up the top-order. Both of them were superb on a wicket which had nothing in it for the bowlers. But RCB finished with 262 as DK came up with some lusty exhibtion of big innovative hitting. He timed the ball like a dream but didn't have much support from the other end. RCB have now lost 5 on the bounce. They are languishing at the bottom of the table. And the bowling effort today would have scarred them further. Tough one indeed for the home side!
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