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Cape Town - The Kings XI Punjab were royally thumped by 138 runs by the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru on Wednesday.
The supersport.com website reports that Chris Gayle (117 off 57 balls) inspired Bangalore to 226 for three after George Bailey had won the toss and elected to field first and then Mitchell Starc and Sreenath Aravind shared eight wickets as the Kings XI were steam-rolled for just 88 inside 14 overs. Such was the manner of the defeat that without Gayle’s ton, Punjab would still have lost by 21 runs.
Bailey joked at the toss that he would not want to chase 250 but he jest was not far off as Gayle, who picked up the man of the match award, and Virat Kohli tore into the Punjabi attack, bringing up their 50-run stand off 25 balls as the Caribbean master-blaster smashed four boundaries and four maximums to bring up his half century off just 22 balls.
