The Royal Challengers Bangalore beat the Kolkata Knight Riders by 39 runs to register their third consecutive victory of IPL 2021. The match is being played at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, a venue where RCB had won their previous two encounters of IPL 2021.
After electing to bat first, RCB put up a mammoth 204 on the board. Glenn Maxwell scored 78 off 49-balls, while AB de Villiers scored a 34-ball 76 to take RCB past 200.
Highlights:
– KKR need 20 runs to win, but Andre Russell is dealing only in boundaries. Can he take KKR past the winning line?
– Yuzvendra Chahal and Washington Sundar have picked up 3 wickets between them to dismiss the KKR top order. (Score – KKR: 93/4 after 11 overs)
– KKR score 57/2 in the powerplay.
– KKR began their chase of 205 in a brisk fashion with Shubman Gill scoring 3 boundaries off the first 4 balls by Kyle Jamieson. But Jamison had the last laugh and dismissed Gill for 21.
– AB de Villiers scored a 34-ball 76 to take RCB past 200. RCB have set KKR a target of 205.
– Soon after Glenn Maxwell‘s dismissal, AB de Villiers switched gears to score 17 runs in the 18th over. The over was bowled by Andre Russell.
– Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers scored 17 runs off the 15th over of the innings, bowled by Varun Chakravarthy. (Score – RCB: 134/3 after 15 overs)
– In the 12th over, bowled by Prasidh Krishna, RCB opener Devutt Padikkal is caught out on the boundary trying to up the ante. Padikkal scored 25 runs off 28 balls.
– Glenn Maxwell brings up his fifty in 28 balls. He has scored 6 fours and 2 sixes in the innings already.
– After losing two wickets early on, Glenn Maxwell and Devdutt Padikkal have ensured that RCB score at a decent run rate in the powerplay. (Score: 45/2 after 6 overs)
– Varun Chakravarthy, a leg spinner, clean bowled Rajat Patidar three balls after Kohli. RCB had brought in Patidar in place of Dan Christian.
– Varun Chakravarthy dismissed Virat Kohli in the 2nd over of the innings. Kohli could just score 5 runs off 6 balls.
– Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal open the innings after the side won the toss and elected to bat first.
AB de Villiers’ master class and Glenn Maxwell’s counter-attacking half-century propelled Royal Challengers Bangalore to an imposing 204 for four against Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL match, here on Sunday.
RCB scored 56 runs in the last three overs, including 21 in the final six deliveries, to set KKR a stiff target after electing to bat.
Earlier, Kolkata captain Dinesh Karthik’s decisions to start with spin from both ends paid off, as Varun Chakravarthy picked two wickets in his first over against the RCB. Varun Chakravarthy sent back Virat Kohli and Rajat Patidar in the 2nd over of the innings.
Playing XIs
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers(w), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Dinesh Karthik(w), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy.
