IPL 2017: Reliving the best moments from Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore contests

McCullum set the IPL on fire with his knock

#5 A thriller in Sharjah, RCB vs KKR at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, 2014

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Chris Lynn took a blinder to seal the game for his side
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Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore locked horns at Sharjah in the 2014 edition of the tournament, which was moved to the UAE owing to the general elections in India. The match turned out to be a last-ball thriller.

But the match would be more remembered down the years for Chris Lynn's blinder of a catch at the boundary line. Batting first, KKR lost their skipper, Gautam Gambhir, for a first-ball duck, and Manish Pandey shortly after, to be reduced to 10/2 in the 2nd over.

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But Lynn added 80 runs with Kallis to take them to a moderate score of 150. However, his moment of the day was yet to come. RCB had a promising start to their innings with the opening pair of Yogesh Takawale and Parthiv Patel adding 67 in less than 8 overs.

However the duo were dismissed in the space of two deliveries on the same score. Kohli and Yuvraj steadied the ship with a couple of thirties but the former fell to Narine off the penultimate ball of his spell and the latter followed soon after.

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Yet, the required rate was always in control. With Kohli back in the pavilion, RCB depended on De Villiers to take them across the line. The equation had come down to 6 required off the last three deliveries and ABD was at the crease, facing Vinay Kumar.

Hoping to finish the match off with a six, AB whacked a short delivery over deep midwicket. Lynn, who was positioned there, slipped while lining up the catch, but recovered enough to arch his body back and take the catch sitting down, inches from the ground.

One of the finest catches in the tournament's long history, Lynn's acrobatics won KKR the game from the jaws of defeat, when Albie Morkel could pick up only a single from the last ball, needing four for victory.

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