April 10, 2017
VIVO IPL 2017 season 10 8th encounter between Kings XI Punjab v Royal Challengers Bangalore at Holkar Cricket Stadium, Indore on April 10, 2017 at 8:00 pm. Bangalore after top orders failure put 148 runs for Punjab to get and Kings XI Punjab made easy chase of small total in 14.5 over with HM Amla amd GJ Maxwell's classic batting and won by 8 wickets. AR Patel declared man of the match for his tight bowling spell 4-0-12-1.
Home team Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat first. The decision not gone in favor of RCB and lost three wickets just in 22 runs. Skipper Watson, V Vinod and previous man top scorer KM Jadav went ealry in pavilion. Today AB de Villiers came in for Ch Gayle and took the charge in and for Bangalore. He got Mandeep Singh support who made 28 runs before lost his wicket to V Aaron. At one stage RCB were 80/4 in 16 overs. After 16 overs AB de Villiers show begins and huge sixes observed in Holkar stadium, Indore. AB de Villiers hits 9 towring sixes and 3 fantastic fours in no time and put Bangalore on fighting total of 148 runs in 20 overs. AB de Villiers smashed 89* runs of just 46 balls with his extra ordinery inning.
Kings XI Punjab in reply made good start and put 62 runs in just 6 overs before M Vohra got out scoring well 34 of 21 balls. AR PAtel joined with H Amla but failed to bat too long and lost his wicket scoring 9 runs. Now KXIP skipper GJ Maxwell came in middle to take charge in hand. He and HM Amla played quick cricket and chased the given target in 14.5 overs and won the match by 8 wickets with 33 balls remaining. HM Amla completed his fifty and made 58 of 38 while Maxwell played super quick inning of 43 runs of just 22 balls. AR Patel given man of the match award for his excellent bowling spell spending just 12 runs of his four overs with 1 wicket.
Player of the match - Axar Patel (KXIP)
Points - Kings XI Punjab 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0
