Brendon McCullum explodes, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by 140 runs
Brendon McCullum explodes, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Bangalore Royal Challengers by 140 runs
Brendon McCullum hit 13 sixes, smashed 158 in 73 balls and demolished Bangalore Royal Challengers in front of Vijay Mallya’s home crowd to guide Shah Rukh Khan’s Kolkata Knight Riders the first victory in the first match of the inaugural match of the DLF IPL Twenty20 championship.
So much was the domination of Brendon McCullum in the match that no other player from either sided is worthy of mention in the score card.
No player from Bangalore Royal Challengers crossed double digits with the exception of Praveen Kumar, who scored 18.
Brendon McCullum who had a Twenty20 strike rate of more than 121 finished the match with a strike rate of 216.43. Brendon McCullum was bought for $700,000 and that seems to be a modest sum given his heroics, showing scant respect for Bangalore Knight Riders attack.
[...] Whether all that was worth it, we will know soon as the match is going to take another hour to end one way or the other. Bangalore Royal Challengers would try hard; they are still smarting from their collapse to the Kolkata Knight riders. [...]
[...] the opening match of the DLF IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders squashed Bangalore Royal Challengers by handing them a 140 runs defeat in the match played at Bangalore. Bangalore Royal Challengers is [...]