Superb bowling, outstanding catches won us the game - RCB

Royal Challengers Bangalore won a thriller against Chennai Super Kings in the DLF Indian Premier League at Kingsmead,Durban on Thursday and skipper Anil Kumble credited the two-wicket victory to superb bowling and outstanding catches that his team took on the field.

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"It was a fantastic effort by our team. Bowling was fantastic and the catching was brilliant. It was great effort getting rid of Hayden and Dhoni. The catches were simply outstanding. Our plan in the beginning was to get rid Haydos and Raina early, but somehow we could not succeed against Hayden. But other plans like unconventional field setting for a T20 came out good. We are taking it one game at a time and hope to reach the semis," Kumble said.

MS Dhoni was disappointed to lose after coming so close to a win. "I am not really happy with our effort. We did pretty well to make a game out of it but let it go somehow. Our fielding hasn't been good throughout. We need to improve. We are a safe fielding side but not brilliant," he said.

Dhoni said that he wasn't happy with the score that they set. "We fell short by 30 to 40 runs. In our attempt for a big score, we messed up and everything went wrong thereafter. We must understand that it's not always about hitting fours and sixes, we need to take ones and twos as well. In that way we can put up a decent total at least," he said. Ross Taylor, man-of-the-match again, said that he was happy for his team's victory but would have been happier had he finished the game. "I am happy that my runs helped my team win. It always good to finish off the game, but it was disappointing that I could not do that myself," said Taylor.

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Virat Kohli, who ably supported Taylor, said that low totals were always tricky to chase. "Low totals are always tricky. The wicket was also slow. When I went to the crease we were three wickets own and my plan was only to stick there and bat along with Ross. And thankfully we managed to do it. We have been working hard on our fielding even during the practice and it's showing on the field," Virat said.

Earlier, Mark Boucher said restricting Chennai Super Kings to 129 was a superb effort from their bowlers. "It was a good performance from our side. At on stage we thought it would be good if we could restrict Chennai Super Kings at around 160. So restricting them to 129 was a superb effort from our bowlers. The pitch is a bit slow. Ball would get softer with time and it will be difficult to hit. But I think we will get to the target," kumble said.