Indian Premier League Gujarat Lions won by 6 wickets Apr 24 2016

Royal Challengers Bangalore win the toss and bat

RCB 180/2 (20/20 ov)

Gujarat Lions 182/4 (19.3/20 ov)

@@@@Good feeling, game's not over. Today was one of the days I didn't expect myself to hit a hudnred. Just wanted to hit good areas. Even against Delhi, I was 75 at the time out, Dan told me hundred was there. Run out on 99 once. #######Never really thought about it today though.###### Just concentrated on hitting the gap. Sort of slipped going for a second, sprained in my ankle, but that was where fitness counts, the other muscles took over. I thought 155, the wicket was slow, breaking off, you'll see it will be much difficult batting in the second innings," Virat Kohli says, "I have to sprint out now@@@@@@@

Gujarat Lions Squad
SK Raina*, S Ladda, AD Nath, Amit Mishra, DJ Bravo, P Dogra, ER Dwivedi, JP Faulkner, AJ Finch, Ishan Kishan, RA Jadeja, SB Jakati, KD Karthik, S Kaushik, DS Kulkarni, P Kumar, BB McCullum, PJ Sangwan, JN Shah, UA Sharma, DR Smith, DW Steyn, PV Tambe, AJ Tye
RCB Squad
V Kohli*, VR Aaron, AN Ahmed, S Aravind, STR Binny, YS Chahal, AB de Villiers, P Dubey, CH Gayle, TM Head, Iqbal Abdulla, KM Jadhav, AK Karnewar, SN Khan, VS Malik, Mandeep Singh, AF Milne, Parvez Rasool, HV Patel, KL Rahul, KW Richardson, Sachin Baby, T Shamsi, MA Starc, V Tokas, SR Watson, D Wiese

Time for me to turn weatherman -Chennai folks might wistfully recall a certain Mr Ramanan - and tell you that Rajkot is smoking hot at 37 C," says a cozy Arun Venugopal from the air-conditioned press box. "But as early as two hours before the start there is a considerable number of brave women and men at the ground dressed in orange/saffron (still can't figure out which colour it is; I think I am becoming colour blind).Humble piece of suggestion - please wear your sun hats, cream and glasses before you start to the stadium. Don't be like Al Muthu who forgot to carry any of these to Raipur in peak summer last year." ----- Ahem. I wanted to challenge myself. It's entirely different.

3.00 pm "A scary team," is what Royal Challengers would be if they got their bowling right. That quote comes from Kane Richardson, who is a bowler, so they are aware of the deficiency. That's good. Often enough a strength - and one as strong as RCB have with their nearly infallible top-three - can paper over everything.

Virat Kohli got bored of bashing the ball and began bashing his helmet. AB de Villiers should be asked to discover his own form of cricket and go play it by himself. Leave us poor normal human beings alone. Chris Gayle is still on Daddy duty in Jamaica though, so there is some fleeting sense of respite.

Gujarat Lions will take it, they are coming off a 10-wicket shellacking. Suresh Raina will hope his batsmen are a bit more forceful this time. The Rajkot pitch had to be dragged kicking and screaming to help the batsmen, if it continues to be slow and offer grip to the seamers bowling cutters, this could well be another headache for the team batting first.