Match 41 : Royal Challengers Banglore defeats Kings Xi Punjab with the assist of their home conditions at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday. When came to the toss the visitor's Skipper R. Ashwin won that and elected to bowl. Put into bat RCB opener Parthiv (43 off 24 balls) and Virat Kohli gave a rollicking start getting 35 runs off 18 balls on the board but RCB captain was dismissed on 13 by Shami after he was caught by Mandeep Singh at extra cover.

Parthiv then got into hitting out of the park Shami for three boundaries and a six in sixth over, who conceded 18 runs in his third over. The left-hander also was severe on Ankit Rajpoot, hitting him for four boundaries and a six. The wicket-keeper batsman did not last long as he was caught by R. Ashwin off Murugan Ashwin, after he had smashed two sixes and seven boundries. Then AB De Villiers and Marcus Stoinis charismatic comeo take the host to the uphil target setting
for the Visitors. De Villiers scored a brilliant unbeaten 82 off 44 balls with three fours and seven sixes, while Stoinis hammered 46 off 34 balls with three sixes and two boundries.

In the last two overs, both Stonis and De Villiers hamered 45 runs off Mohammad Shami and Hardus Viljoen. After reaching his 50 off 35 balls, De Villiers, smashed Shami for three sixes, plundering 18 runs in the penultimate over. In the last over, both Stoinis and De Villiers hammered 27 runs off Viljoen, RCB finshed their innings at 202 for 4 wickets. Ravichandran Ashwin (1/15), Murugan Ashwin (1/31), Mohammad Shami (1/53) and Hardus Viljoen (1/51) in their 4 overs slot.

Chasing wasn't looked that difficult as if their openers Kl Rahul and Chris Gayle partnering 42 runs could continued, but Umesh Yadav removed Gayle (23 off 10 balls) in the 4th over. Mayank Agrawal and Kl Rahul sent RCB bowlers for leatherhunt afterwards Marcus Stoinis got the wicket of Mayank (35 runs off 21 balls). West Indian wicket-keeper Batsman Nicholas Pooran (46 runs off 28 ball) hit sixes at will as he smashed Washighton Sundar for three consecutive sixes. Navdeep Saini scalped the wicket of David Miller and Pooran to bring back RCB in the game. Punjab Batsmen couldn't make it their way to be winner of the match, RCB bolwers likes Umesh Yadav (3/36), Navdeep Saini (2/33), Moeen Ali (1/22 in 3 overs) and Marcus Stoinis (1/13 in 2 overs) finshed their figures successively.

Proteas Former Captain AB de Villiers named Player of the Match for his ridiculously cool innings. He said post match, "I really just try to stay calm. It's not easy.
Game is happening quickly. But you have your team-mates around you to share the load [death-overs batting]. We know our home ground pretty well. It hasn't been a great hunting ground at the start but if we can keep going with this momentum, we'll do well. And you can see it, lots of smiles on the faces. I still thought the par score was 180. I actually felt it was 160 but it got better to bat in the second innings. So the boys bowled really well."

Kings XI's Captain Ravichandran Ashwin said, "There can be so many places where we feel we lost the game. But at the end of the day, a T20 game is all about pressure moments and we haven't been able to do that in the last few games."