I wonder whom Mahela consulted with before giving Gomez that over, but it cost Kochi terribly. de Villiers smashed Gomez for three sixes and that ended the game for Kochi. How much of Gomez would Mahela have seen before today? He'll have learned from the experience for sure.

''Think Mahela tried to pull of a MSD by bringing on Gomez!" says Samir.

Mahela says Kochi didn't hold nerve for only a couple of overs and it cost them. "It was a defendable target. We took wickets but they kept chasing. We put ourselves under pressure. We tried to take the pace off the ball but it didn't work."

"Wouldn't blame Mahela too much. With RP delivering absolute trash (like he is doing with alarming regularity), he had to look for other alternatives," says Karthik.

Vettori thought the target was a good one. "We played well to chase it down, he says. "It was a good wicket, there was enough bounce there. A good cricket wicket, good for the crowd ... I like bowling on these sort of wickets."

The Man of the Match is AB de Villiers for his game-breaking half-century. "Awesome vibe, the IPL is always nice to play in. We started off scratchy but that was expected in the first game of the IPL," AB said. "We had the experience to pull it back." He says Ray Jennings gave him valuable advice during the second strategic time-out. So I guess they do serve some purpose!

That's about it from us at ESPNcricinfo for tonight. Day 2 of the IPL is over, plenty more to come. Stay with us. Cheers.

That over has broken the game. Bangalore will have to do something spectacularly silly to lose this.

Bangalore need 11 runs per over.

39 needed off 24 balls. Like almost every other IPL match.