Bangalore Wins Battle of Basement

It has been an interesting day for Vijay Mallya. He, of course, is out in Monaco, about which I’m saying nothing as Kevin has the race on tape to watch when he gets home. I can, however, report that the Bangalore Royal Challengers have registered another victory. The Deccan Chargers batted first, with Gilchrist and Gibbs getting them off to an excellent start. Sadly the rest of the batting order could not maintain the pace, and the Chargers only managed 165. No one in the Bangalore side got a big score, but Kallis, ul-Haq, Dravid, White and Akhil all contributed, and the Royal Challengers brought home the victory with an over to spare. That loss consigns the Hyderabad team to last place in the table. Goodness only what they’ll be writing in the Deccan Chronicle tomorrow.