Head held high on a night of fours & sixes

Opener scores century as Hyderabad post highest total in IPL, Karthik's heroics in vain as RCB lose by 25 runs SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN @ Bengaluru IN the sixth over of the Hyderabad innings, Bengaluru had some respite.

- SWAROOP SWAMINATHAN

Halfway into his run-up, Yash Dayal aborted it.

He had lost his towel before his delivery stride. It was the only time during Travis Head's murderous innings that he didn't swipe across the line, pull in front or behind square or dump the ball into the stands. It didn't count as a legal ball but the Bengaluru fielders would have liked the calmness of the moment.

Either side of that- the first 5.4 and the next 6.5 overs -the Australian was divine. To be fair, he has taken to Indian strips of late and he continued his mission to own another 22 yards of land in this country (the deck was interesting with lots of green grass on the middle but barren on both ends, like a middle-aged man suffering from male pattern baldness).