Today’s Match
Match 31 IPL 2013 –Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Pune Warriors
Date – Tue Apr 23
Time – 4:00 pm i.e 10:30 GMT | 16:00 IST
Venue – M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Toss – Pune elected to field
Result – Royal Challengers Bangalore won by 130 runs.
Man of the Match – Chris Gayle

Today in the 31st match of Pepsi IPL 2013, Pune Warriors won the toss and invited Royal Challengers Bangalore to bat first. They had no clue of the Gayle Storm which were to attack them. Chris Gayle and Tillakaratne Dilshan added 167 runs in 13.4 overs for the first wicket stand before Tillakaratne Dilshan got out after scoring 33. Gayle completed the fastest hundred in just T20 format as it took him just 30 balls to reach 100. Chris Gayle remained unbeaten on 175 off 66 balls and thus RCB posted a huge total of 263/5 in 20 overs.

Chasing an impossible target of 264, Pune Warriors got off to the worst possible start as they lost Robin Uthappa on the second ball of the innings when the scorecard read zero. Most successful Pune batsman, Aaron Finch also got out in the 5th over soon followed by Luke Wright and Yuvraj Singh. Pune were struggling at 42/4 in 5.4 overs before Steven Smith and Mitchell Marsh steadied the innings and took the score to 100. The run rate was far above the achievable mark and Pune batsmen in an attempt to get even close to it kept failing. Steven Smith top scored with 41 but the target was way to much and finally Pune could manage to score just 133/9 and thus lost the match by 130 runs.

Match 31 IPL 2013 – Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Pune Warriors Scorecard