Bengaluru: Rising Pune Supergiants produced a first-rate bowling overall performance to outwit Royal Challengers Bangalore via 27 runs to get a few respiratory space inside the Indian Premier League, here tonight.

On a sluggish -paced song, a total of 161 for 8 through Pune regarded hard sufficient and they got their bowling mixture spot proscribing RCB to 134 for 9 in 20 overs.

In the end, Manoj Tiwary's cameo 27 off 11 balls proved to be decisive as he gave Pune a total to fight.

By virtue of this victory, Pune now has four points from five games while RCB is in a spot with only a single win from five games.

The likes of Shardul Thakur (3/35), Imran Tahir (1/27), Ben Stokes (3/18) and Jaydev Unadkat (2/25) kept the pressure on for the entire duration bowling. They bowled a total of 49 dot balls which is equivalent to 8.1 overs.

Virat Kohli started with a flicked six off Jaydev Unadkat and a 4 off Shardul Thakur. but he had a reprieve while Manoj Tiwary dropped a law trap the first slip off Thakur. Thakur but had some consolation as he brushed off an out-of-shape Mandeep Singh (zero) stuck by using Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

Kohli hit two extra barriers off Thakur searching in ominous touch before a shipping from Ben Stokes climbed massive at the skipper. The skier turned into smartly pouched by Ajinkya Rahane standing a few yards at sweeper boundary.

De Villiers, who started out with a six off Unadkat then have become a piece cautious as third seamer Dan Christian bowled tight strains in his first two overs.

The first 10 produced 66 for RCB with ninety-five required off again 10.

But De Villiers, who had gone into a shell was beaten by a sharp leg-break from Tahir (1/27) as Dhoni whipped the bails off in a flash.

Just like Pune's middle-order collapse, RCB's batsmen also found that ball wasn't coming onto the bat. Jaydev Unadkat's slower delivery saw Kedar Jadhav rushing out only to be played on. Shane Watson (14) was always struggling before being cleaned up by Ben Stokes. It was all over for RCB by then.

Earlier, Rising Pune Supergiant suffered a shocking middle-order collapse before a Tiwary cameo took them to 161 for 8 against Royal Challengers Bangalore.

It was a below-par score by Pune as they were cruising along at 127 for 2 courtesy 58-run stand between skipper Steve Smith (27) and Dhoni (28) before wickets fell in a clutch.

With an addition of only three runs, Pune lost five wickets in a space of nine deliveries with most of the batsmen falling prey to the slowish nature of the track committing to their shots too early.

Dhoni and Smith were bowled off successive deliveries while Ben Stokes was also cleaned up.

Tottering at 130 for 7, Tiwary played an absolute cameo scoring 27 off 11 balls including a 19-run penultimate over off Shane Watson that had three boundaries and a straight six into the sightscreen.

Had it not been for Tiwary, Pune would have landed woefully short of the target.

Pune started the innings well with Ajinkya Rahane (30 off 25 balls) and Rahul Tripathi (31 off 23 balls) adding 63 for the opening stand.

Rahane hit a flurry of boundaries off the pacers Adam Milne (2/27) and Watson before a googly from Samuel Badree cleaned him up.

Tripathi was long gone whilst drove uppishly with skipper Kohli pulling off an absolute stunner at brief more cowl.

Dhoni and Smith joined forces at 69 for two. Dhoni played a pair reduce photographs in the back off factor to get limitations.

But his incapacity to get scoreboard transferring became again glaring as his 28 got here off 25 balls which also had a huge six off Yzvendra Chahal shipping that landed at the Chinnaswamy rooftop.

In reality, Dhoni scored 18 runs off barriers in four balls which efficaciously meant that the rest of the ten runs got here off 21 deliveries. however simply after they had been in a position to cut unfastened, the fall apart occurred.