This was the exact beginning Lalit Modi would have been hoping for. A jam packed crowd, all waiting to see some great T-20 action. The series opener was nothing short of a spectacle, or let us say it this way an astonishing 158* by Brendon McCallum made it look like one.
It’s not first time that a team has scored over 200 runs in a T-20 match but just the way Brendon batted made it look seriously ahead of all other innings that have ever been played in T-20 history. It should be rated at par with Yuvraj Singh’s effort against England at the T-20 world cup.
The Kolkata knight riders managed to score 222 runs of their allotted 20 overs. The Bangalore royal challengers it seemed weren’t very keen in putting up any kind of show and scored only 82 runs to lose by 140 runs.
Before the match started Vijay Malaya put up a great show with music of the best quality, he even brought his Force India F1 car to the stadium.
While it was a no show on the side of RC one thing that everyone would agree with is that the batting was way tougher under lights and even Sourav was able to swing the ball more than Warne would turn it on a similar track. We hope for a better show from RC next time and hope that KKR maintain their good show.
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