Gujarat Lions Beat RCB By 7 Wickets

April 28, 2017 11:15
Gujarat Lions Beat RCB By 7 Wickets

Riding on Andrew Tye’s three-wicket haul and Aaron Finch’s whirlwind fifty, Gujarat Lions (GL) notched up a comfortable seven-wicket win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) to revive their IPL play-off hopes, at Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Thursday.

Chasing 135 to win, Gujarat lost both openers - Ishan Kishan (16) and Brendon McCullum (3) - to be reduced to 23-2, but Finch blasted 5 fours and 6 sixes in his scintillating 34-ball 72-run innings as the visitors romped home with 6.1 overs to spare.

Earlier right-arm seamer Tye returned with a three-wicket haul to trigger a top-order collapse as Royal Challengers Bangalore were bowled out for 134 by Gujarat Lions after electing to bowl in their eighth match of IPL 10.

Tye, who had taken a hat-trick on IPL debut against Rising Pune Supergiant at Rajkot, struck twice in two balls and returned with figures of 4-0-12-3 to leave the hosts at 22-3 in the fifth over. Besides Tye, Ravindra Jadeja (2/28) snapped two wickets and Basil Thampi (1/34) and Ankit Soni (1/28) picked up one wicket each as Lions dished out a disciplined bowling performance. For RCB, Pawan Negi (32) and Kedar Jadhav (31) were the top scorers.

This is only the third victory in the season for Gujarat Lions, who had gathered just four points from seven games to be languishing at the bottom of the table. They now reached the sixth spot with six points. With this loss, the door is fast closing for RCB, who has just five points from nine matches.

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