Padikkal: It was important when I went in that I built a partnership with Virat. These small totals can be tricky and I wanted to make sure I give a good start. There's been a lot of hard work that's gone in the last few months. With DK and Andy I've worked on certain aspects and it's coming off now. When you have someone on the other side with that much confidence and calmness, it makes your job easy. Playing for my home state and city is very special. It always feels a little bit more special when you play for them and play in the Chinnaswamy as well. There's a lot of confidence in the side. Everyone is batting well and getting runs. We haven't batted well in our home conditions, which is something we have to accept and take responsibility for. Hopefully we can really work.
Shreyas Iyer: Just a minor niggle, should be fine after this game. If you see the majority of our batters like to go from ball one, we’ve struggled to assess the wicket when we bat first. Otherwise we’ve not been able to capitalise on the starts we’ve been getting. We weren’t able to set a total we could defend. If you see the positives, we got a great start, the bowlers have been doing a tremendous job. Credit to Virat and the boys, they played well. We keep talking about adapting to the wicket, once the ball gets old it doesn’t skid off the wicket that well. Both of them (openers) are great strokemakers, it’s hard for them to comprehend if you tell them to slow down. Need to take the bull by the horns and see to it that we get a good total on the board for the bowlers. I’m in a great mindspace, I just need to cross 10 runs and I can take on the charge. Don’t want to give reasons, want to stay in the present as much as possible. We’ve got six days off, important that we go back to the drawing board, also important we rejuvenate and refresh, need to make sure we’re in the best shape possible before the next game.
18:51 Local Time, 13:21 GMT, 18:51 IST:
18.5
Nehal Wadhera to Jitesh Sharma, SIX, Jitesh Sharma hits the winning runs! Fraction short and the batsman rocks back to pull the short ball over deep mid-wicket.
18.4
Nehal Wadhera to Kohli, 1 run, darted on leg, Kohli backs away and steers it into the off-side for one
18.3
Nehal Wadhera to Jitesh Sharma, 1 run, flatter through the air on off, Jitesh Sharma knocks it to long-off for one
18.2
Nehal Wadhera to Jitesh Sharma, no run,
18.1
Nehal Wadhera to Kohli, 1 run, flatter delivery on middle and leg, Kohli knocks it to long-on for a single
Nehal Wadhera, right-arm leg break, comes into the attack
Equation: 8 runs required in 2 overs. Think Kohli will try to finish it off in this over itself..
17.6
Harpreet Brar to Kohli, 1 run, 150 up for RCB! Yorker length delivery by Harpreet Brar, the batsman shimmies down the track and squeezes it into the off-side
17.5
Harpreet Brar to Jitesh Sharma, 1 run, loopy delivery on off, Jitesh Sharma chips it to long-off for one
17.4
Harpreet Brar to Kohli, 1 run, RCB batters being watchful against Harpreet Brar. A short ball by the spinner,
17.3
Harpreet Brar to Jitesh Sharma, 1 run, driven along the carpet to long-off for a single by Jitesh Sharma