Ross Taylor furnished a magnificent innings, of eighty one runs, from thirty three balls, to add further humiliation, to Knight Rider’s camp, who have just won one game out, of their eleven matches played and keep Bangalore Challengers in hunt.

It was a strong kiwi flavour in yesterday’s match, where Ross Taylor won the battle of supremacy against his kiwi teammate Brendon Mc Cullum, who finally stroked a much needed eighty four runs, to set a formidable target, of one seventy four runs.

David Hussey, who was playing his first match in this season of IPL, made a evident impact on the batting department, where he combined well with Brendom Mc Cullum to romp his team to successful score after losing Ganguly and Bose early in the opening of spell of disciplined Vinay Kumar.

For Bangalore Royal Challengers bowling, tight lines and good depth bowling sound to have gone for a holiday that they struggled to contain Brendon Mc Cullum and David Hussey, in the late overs.

Bangalore Royal Challengers begun the chase, with new opening pair in form of Jesse ryder and Jacques Kallis, who both stroked a much needed half – century partnership, to provide a good launching pad ,for chase, but duo was separated by Brendon Mc Cullum superb catch, to remove Jacques Kallis.

For Kolkata Knight Riders, Murali Kaarthick bolwed some tight lines and picked two crucial wickets of Jesse Ryder and Robin Uthappa owing, to the pressure of chasing a huge score, which pegged back Royal challengers semi – final dream hugely.

Ross Taylor had other ideas for Royal Challengers, where he scored boundaries at will to ease the pressure of his partner Rahul Dravid, but required rate was towering double digit, as huge total scored by Knight Riders, kept them in contention even after Ross Taylor onslaught.

Mark Boucher joined Ross Taylor in middle, after Dravid went out giving a staright catch to Ajantha Mendis in his own bowling. The hopes of any wins, rested with pair and they rose to the occasion, where Ross Taylor was flooding his team with boundaries, that took the pressure of his newly arrived partner.

Brendon Mc Cullum woes, as captaincy continues, as his bolwers flopped big time, in late overs, even their pivotal bolwer like Isanth Sharma and Ajit Agarkar bombed with their sloppy death bowling and handed a comfortable victory to Royal Challengers.