India, Jan. 31 -- What would be a good enough target to defend in Coimbatore? 226 has been comfortably chased down at the same ground. That must have played hard on the minds of the Kerala Strikers when they came in to bat. But all that they could get to was 177, setting a target of 178, against a team that had already beaten them once this season. Until the 17th over in the Bengal Tigers' innings, it seemed that they'd run out of steam, until Rahul came along and got 40 runs of only 11 and sealed the deal for his team.

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