Bangalore get another win at last, but really, they shouldn’t have. Batting first, the Royal Challengers amassed only 156, which should have been an easy target for a side so full of batting talent as the Chargers. And yet, once again, the star batsmen nearly all failed. Even so, Laxman and Sharma almost managed to win the game by themselves. Dravid kept patiently swapping bowlers around and trying to apply pressure, and eventually it worked. Jacques Kallis got Sharma out to give a score of 127/3, with three over left, and the Chargers batting proceeded to self-destruct.

With one over left they needed 20 to win, and having used up his pace men early on Dravid was forced to turn to Kumble to bowl the final over. After a couple of singles, the appropriately named Sanjay Bangar manged to bang the ball over the boundary for a couple of 6s, but Kumble got things back under control and disaster was avoided. The Royal Challengers will be relived to have another win, but Chargers fans will be wondering how Gilchrist, Gibbs, Afridi and Styris only managed 18 runs between them.

Wish I’d got to watch this one rather than following it on Cricinfo, but text reporting is way better than nothing.