KKR decided to field first and needed 170 runs to win against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Champions League Twenty20 at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in
Chris Gayle blasted the start, KKR bowlers, especially Jacques Kallis and Iqbal Abdulla did well to bring down the scoring rate. They picked up wickets at regular intervals as almost every RCB batsman got out after playing some good looking shots. But in came their skipper Vettori at number 7 and in company of the debutant Bhatkal, boosted
Kolkata looked wayward at the death and were clearly unsettled by Vettori's shuffle across the stumps.
Tilakaratne Dilshan, Saurabh Tiwary and Mayank Agarwal failed to contribute much with the bat after the KKR spinners came into play.
After hitting three towering sixes the Chris Gayle show came to an end as Kallis removed him with a superb inswinging yorker that uprooted the batman's leg stump.
And in the very next over Virat Kohli was done in by Brett Lee. It was a short of length delivery and Kohli looked to flick it on the on side but got a leading edge which went straight to Gambhir at extra cover.
Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and elected to bowl against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
KKR have made three changes to their side as they left out L Balaji, Manvinder Bisla and Shakib Al Hasan to bring in Shami Ahmed, Jaydev Unadkat and Brad Haddin.
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