Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders (10th April 2010)

Result: Bangalore Royal Challengers won by 7 wkts

Bangalore Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to field first. KKR started the innings well. But after 7th over they started losig wickets in regular intervals and scored 160/9 in 20 overs. Brendon McCullum was top scorer with 45 while Vinay Kumar took 3 wickets for RCB. Chasing the target Kallis failed early but Dravid (52) and Uthhapa (52 from 22 balls) played brilliant innings to guide their team to victory.

Vinay Kumar wss the Man of the Match for taking 3 wickets. Anil Kumble got the Kamaal catch award while Maximum sixes award went to 'Robin Uthappa'.

Numbers that mattered, Match 43

61 Runs scored by Kolkata Knight Riders in the Powerplay, which equals their best performance in IPL 2010. Interestingly, the previous such occasion was also against Royal Challengers Bangalore at Kolkata on March 14.

22 Number of sixes hit by Robin Uthappa in IPL 2010. Now only Yusuf Pathan (23) is ahead of him.

22 Number of balls taken by Uthappa to score his fifty – the fastest fifty against Kolkata Knight Riders in all IPL matches. Ross Taylor had scored a 24-ball fifty at Centurion last year.

3 Number of consecutive fifty-stands put on by the pair of Sourav Ganguly and Chris Gayle. They are the second pair in IPL 2010 to do it after Royal Challengers Bangalore’s Manish Pandey and Jacques Kallis.

1 Jacques Kallis became the first batsman to aggregate 500 runs in IPL 2010.