3rd Match, KKR vs RCB – Nitish Rana’s twin blow

Royal Challengers Bangalore had two batting gods at the crease and they were on their course in dishing out another assault that looked like inspired from heavens. In the desperate conditions, Dinesh Karthik handed the ball to Nitish Rana to bowl his gentle spin with RCB being 121/2 after 13 overs.

Seeing the part-timer bowler, ABD’s eyes lit up. The first ball was just a starter, pitched midway on the pitch with hardly any turn and speed, De Villiers launched the ball over midwicket in his characteristic style. Six!

Rana not flinching whatsoever repeated the treat, AB De Villiers was not in the mood to let go anything, he went for another six but the ball did not connect with the center of the bat and just skied up. Mitchell Johnson set up himself under the ball and took the most important catch. AB De Villiers got out with 44 runs in just 23 balls with one boundary and five sixes!

While the ball was in the air, Virat crossed ABD and fittingly took the strike for the next ball. Making a massive change in his length, Rana got into the Malinga mode and went for the bottom of the middle stump. Kohli failed to anticipate and guess what, NITISH RANA BOWLED VIRAT KOHLI!

Perhaps, a feat that every bowler in the world dreams of currently, Nitish Rana became the third man to dismiss ABD and Kohli of the successive balls after Jacques Kallis and Thisara Perera.