De Villiers stars in RCB 82 run win over KKR in Sharjah
Sharjah: Royal Challengers Bengaluru on Monday defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by a margin of 82 runs in what has consolidated their Net Run Rate on the points table where they are placed on number three spot behind Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals.
RCB, batting first, rode on De Villiers brilliance with the bat to set a competitive total on 194 runs.
KKR while chasing were scattered with top and middle-order collapse. They only managed to put 112 runs on board while chasing in their 20 overs, losing 9 wickets.
Chris Morris and Washington Sundar bagged 2 wickets each in their 4 overs conceding 17 and 20 runs respectively. Yuzvendra Chahal, Navdeep Saini, Mohammed Siraj and Isuru Udana all bagged one wicket each.
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Karnataka: Voter turnout crosses 50% in 14 LS seats
Bengaluru (PTI): With less than three hours left for voting to end, over 50 per cent turnout was reported in Karnataka where polling is underway in 14 Lok Sabha constituencies on Friday.
According to election officials, the voter percentage till 3 PM was about 50.93 per cent. The voting that began at 7am, will end by 6 pm.
Out of 14 segments that are going to polls today, highest turnout of 58.76 percent was recorded in Dakshina Kannada, followed by Udupi-Chikmagalur at 57.49 percent. The least was 40.10 percent in Bangalore Central. The turnout was 40.77 percent in Bangalore South and 41.12 percent in Bangalore North.
Bangalore Rural that is witnessing a tight contest between Congress' D K Suresh-- MP and brother of Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar-- and Dr C N Manjunath, a noted cardiologist and son-in-law of former PM H D Deve Gowda, on a BJP ticket, has recorded 49.62 percent polling.
In the first phase, the Congress is contesting in all 14 seats, BJP has fielded nominees in 11 and its alliance partner JD(S), which joined the National Democratic Alliance in (NDA) in September last year, in three -- Hassan, Mandya and Kolar.
The segments where elections are being held on Friday are: Udupi-Chikmagalur, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, Tumkur, Mysore, Chamarajanagar, Bangalore Rural, Bangalore North, Bangalore Central, Bangalore South and Chikkballapur.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Congress and JD(S), which were in alliance and ruling the state back then, had secured just one seat each in these 14 segments. The BJP had won in 11 and ensured the victory of a party-supported independent candidate in Mandya.
