Jaipur cruise past Bangalore, win by 7wkts

Giant killers Rajasthan Royals mauled Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets to maintain their dominance in the Indian Premier League. Earlier, a fine bowling display by Rajasthan Royals wrecked Bangalore Royal Challengers' top order and restricted them to a modest 135 for eight in an Indian Premier League match on Saturday. Put in to bat by Rajasthan Royals skipper Shane Warne, the home team top order, except Ross Taylor, failed to click with Shane Watson and Munaf Patel doing the main damage returning identical figures of 2 for 20. Shivnarine Chanderpaul (2), Rahul Dravid (0), Jacques Kallis (11) and Mark Boucher (4) fell cheaply and that piled pressure on the lower order. Taylor's 20-ball 44 which he made with the help of six fours and three sixes provided some respectability to Bangalore Royal Challengers total. Towards the end, young Praveen Kumar made a breezy 34 from 30 runs with two fours and three sixes before getting run out. He was particularly harsh on Warne. In fact nothing went right from the outset for the Royal Challengers who were invited to bat first on a wicket which appeared to be assisting the bowlers. Rajasthan Royals got immediate success when home team captain Rahul Dravid scored a first ball duck holing out to Ravindra Jadeja at deep fine-leg. A perfect trap was laid for Dravid, who perhaps failed to read the fielder on the boundary line giving Shane Watson a prize wicket. Two overs later his opening partner Shivnarine Chanderpaul also fell to a similar trap to the same combo as Bangalore Challengers were reduced to 16 for 2. Ross Taylor then consolidated the innings with some lusty hitting before seeing the back of his partner Jacques Kallis (11).