2010 IPL 3 Match 31: KP and RCB Score over Winless and Stricken KXIP

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Sreelata YellamrazuApr 3 2010

Kevin Pietersen marked his comeback with a valuable half century that helped the Royal Challengers Bangalore regain a win under their belt, and it could not have come at a more opportune time against the much muddled Kings XI Punjab team.

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KP struck a well paced innings of sixty-six runs from forty-four runs, giving the Royals Challengers an additional slice of international taste after Jacques Kallis led the first half of the competition with aplomb.

But it was not a solo act with Virat Kohli giving the third wicket partnership the winning edge with forty-two ideally scored runs as well as the RCB made light of the challenge thrown up by the Kings XI Punjab who have thrown the sink at the opposition of trying to eke out two more points in the tournament.

The fiasco off the field emanating about the KXIP team gave way to a sombre affair in the middle where the KXIP captain, Kumar Sangakkara, paired up with Manvinder Bisla to make a meal of the match.

But once Sangakkara gave way, making a twenty-seven ball forty-five runs and Bisla gave his wicket away for twenty-nine promising runs, Ravi Bopara and Yuvraj Singh set up the target of 181. While the former continued his relative decent form in the tournament with another knock of forty-two, it was Yuvraj who had to prove a point or two and the setting seemed perfect. And he did fire for thirty-six runs in a crucial partnership, curtailed only by Kallis' delivery that put paid to a bigger launch.

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