Manoj Tiwary contributed a crucial 27 to the Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) total on Sunday night at the Chinnaswamy Stadium and that turned to be exact margin of victory over hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
Manoj Tiwari, Virat Kohli
RPS's Manoj Tiwary slams one during his 11-ball 27 against RCB in Bangalore on Sunday. Pic/PTI
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Manoj Tiwary contributed a crucial 27 to the Rising Pune Supergiant (RPS) total on Sunday night at the Chinnaswamy Stadium and that turned to be exact margin of victory over hosts Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB). While he didn't plan the margin as such, the domestic veteran from Kolkata, had otherwise planned his innings well, astutely calling a double bluff from Shane Watson.
Just before Tiwary walked in at 129-5 in the 17th over, he had noticed Watson sell MS Dhoni a bluff by bowling a full length delivery well outside off after employing a strong leg-side field for a short ball. Watson tried a similar tactic against Tiwary but with altogether different results. He pushed fine-leg back and bowled a bouncer first which went too high and was called wide. Next ball, with the same field, Watson pitched it up only to find Tiwary ready and the result was 4, 4, 6 as the Aussie kept pitching it up and the Bengal batsman kept banging away.
"I was observing what he (Shane Watson) was trying to do to Dhoni," said Tiwary at Sunday's post-match conference after Pune had completed an unexpectedly easy win over RCB. "He set one field and bowled differently, he was trying to bluff and he got MS. When I saw the same field for me too, I knew he'll bowl similarly. Once the bouncer went for a wide, I knew he wouldn't bowl another one. He bowled in my areas, he missed his execution and I was up for it," was Tiwary's simple explantion for the havoc he created in the RCB ranks.
With 19 runs coming off that penultimate over sent down by Watson and Tiwary then taking a fine six off Adam Milne's pace in the final over, RPS who were 130-7 at one stage, ended with 161-8. The not-so-fearsome total turned out to be well outside RCB's grasp, their strong batting line-up notwithstanding, and mostly because a batsman waiting in the dug out spotted something useful.
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