- BATSMENRB4s6sSR8 and there's the wicket! Pawan doesn't have nine lives today! He pulls a short of good length delivery to deep midwicket. Considering the fortune he has had today, you might not fault him if he thought that catch would be dropped! Bhavesh Gulecha settles under it and takes an easy catch. This is getting difficult for Bengaluru, but they have been here before. In the Semi-Final too, they found themselves in a situation similar to this and found a way out 41/30.4 fuller ball wide outside the off stump. He drives it to cover where Bharath Chilli, dives and pulls off a brilliant save. He gets up quickly from the dive to see Chethan running and lets rip a throw that hits the top of the middle stump. Amazing piece of fielding there 2/13.1 "you came for a fight, we will give you a war!" That's what Bijapur seem to be suggesting to the unbeaten team of the tournament. They pick up the kingpin of the team. He bowls a fuller ball outside the off stump. Uthappa, chases is and the movement away ensures that he gets an outside edge back to the keeper. 20/29.3 and that poor decision by the umpire doesn't cost much! Fuller ball outside the off stump. He sweeps it straight into the hands of the fielder at cow corner. Cariappa, who earlier dropped a catch of Raju's bowling, takes this off Appanna's bowling. He put himself under pressure to play the shot really. His strike-rate was 50 before this ball and he had to start looking for the big shots. Unfortunately, the first big shot he played, he got out 49/412.1 fuller ball outside the off stump. He lofts it to long-off where Bhavesh Gulecha manages to make an easy catch look tough before taking it. Bengaluru need the innings of the tournament if they want some respect for their final score. Who will play it though? 59/516 another poor decision by the umpire! It was going down the leg stump line. On the leg stump and going down. Bhandage looks to slog it away and is beaten. Bengaluru lose their batting hero from the semi-final. Will they get to 100? 80/618.2 lofts it straight to long-on where Abbas takes the catch 92/718.3 two-in-two as he lofts it to long-off where the catch is taken 92/819.2 short and wide outside the off stump. He cuts it straight into the hands of the fielder at sweeper cover 97/920 drives it to cover and sets off for the single. There is an overthrow and they want a second. Anand is run-out attempting a second run 101/9Extras6 (lb 3, nb 1, w 2)TOTAL101 all out (20 Overs, RR: 5.05)Fall of wickets: 1-2 (Chethan William, 0.4 ov), 2-20 (Robin Uthappa, 3.1 ov), 3-41 (KB Pawan, 7.6 ov), 4-49 (Pavan Deshpande, 9.3 ov), 5-59 (Shreyas Gopal, 12.1 ov), 6-80 (Manoj Bhandage, 15.6 ov), 7-92 (Arshdeep Singh, 18.2 ov), 8-92 (Abhishek Bhat, 18.3 ov), 9-97 (Vasuki Koushik, 19.2 ov), 10-101 (Doddamani Anand, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB B Gulecha 3 0 14 2 4.66 0 1 S Kamath 2 0 22 0 11.00 0 0 MG Naveen 4 1 19 2 4.75 0 0 SN Raju 3 0 14 0 4.66 0 0 KP Appanna 4 0 16 3 4.00 2 0 KC Cariappa 4 0 13 1 3.25 0 0
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- BATSMENRB4s6sSR9.4 back of a length and Naveen goes for a glory-pull, was cramped for room and edged back to the keeper 72/26.3 gone! Tossed up on off stump and failed to pick the flipper. Chipli gets onto the front foot for an expensive drive, misses and snakes through the gate 47/112.3 back of a length on off, and pulls straight to mid-on. They are checking for a no-ball and it looks legit 85/3Extras1 (w 1)TOTAL106/3 (13.5 Overs, RR: 7.66)Fall of wickets: 1-47 (Bharat Chipli, 6.3 ov), 2-72 (Gneshwar Naveen, 9.4 ov), 3-85 (Krishnan Shrijith, 12.3 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ WD NB Mitrakanth Yadav 3 0 26 0 8.66 0 0 V Koushik 3 0 16 1 5.33 0 0 D Anand 2 0 13 0 6.50 0 0 S Gopal 2 0 14 1 7.00 0 0 MS Bhandage 3.5 0 37 1 9.65 1 0
Match Details
Toss
Bijapur Bulls , elected to field first
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Series result
Bijapur Bulls won the 2018 Karnataka Premier League
Season
Match days
06 September 2018 - night match (20-over match)
Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
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