Gayle set the plot for de Villiers and Tiwary

Pune Warriors India opener Robin Uthappa felt that the hurricane innings of 81 by Royal Challengers Bangalore opener Chris Gayle set up the game for AB de Villiers and Saurabh Tiwary to finish it off in the last ball of the IPL match.

Chasing a target of 183 for victory, Chris Gayle came up with a phenomenal hitting, followed by brilliant batting at the rear by Saurabh Tiwary (not out 36) and AB de Villiers (not out 33) that helped Bangalore beat Pune by six wickets last night.

"AB and Saurabh played out of their skins to get required 21 runs in last over. But I thought it was well set up by Gayle," said Uthappa at post-match press conference here. Uthappa also said that the Pune were 15 runs short on a good batting track.

"The whole team thought we were 10-15 runs short as Bangalore is known for good batting track. If a team had wickets till the end, it could surely reach the target." PTI