Royal Challengers Bangalore needs to win to stay alive

Net run-rate considerations may occupy other teams'thoughts, but Royal Challengers Bangalore, for the moment, stares at a frighteningly simple equation: defeat to Somerset on Monday equals exit from the Champions League T20.
If the loss to Warriors in the opening game had been a narrow one, there were no mitigating factors in the beating received at the hands of Kolkata Knight Riders. AB de Villiers's injury has left the middle-order looking patently frail, and it needed Daniel Vettori to haul the side out of a trough on Thursday.
The captain was scathing in his criticism of the fielding and bowling efforts in the aftermath, saying the team needed to improve“tremendously” in the two areas.“What happened for more details....