On Friday, Kolkata Knight Riders recorded a straightforward seven-wicket win in opposition to their rivals Royal Challengers Bengaluru at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. A win additionally proved the primary away-team triumph in IPL 2024, ending the nine-match home-team win streak.
Virat Kohli‘s good 83* off 59 balls helped RCB publish 182/6 complete whereas batting first in their third recreation of the season. But Sunil Narine, enjoying in his five hundredth T20 profession match, and Venkatesh Iyer dominated clueless RCB’s bowling assault to chase the goal in simply 16.5 overs.
Shreyas Iyer-led KKR received the essential toss and elected to area first with Nitish Rana lacking the enjoying eleven due to an harm. Faf du Plessis fielded the identical enjoying eleven that recorded an excellent win in opposition to Punjab Kings in their final recreation.
Kolkata began nicely with Harshit Rana eradicating Faf in the second over of the sport. But Virat Kohli and Cameron Green added 65 runs for the second wicket to preserve RCB on monitor for a big complete. Andre Russell eliminated Green in the ninth over who scored essential 33 runs.
Kohli and Glenn Maxwell struggled for big pictures in the center overs because the pitch surprisingly proved cheesy at Chinnaswamy. Maxwell departed after scoring 28 runs whereas Kolhi remained unbeaten on 83 off 59 balls to see RCB publish a difficult complete of 182/6 in 20 overs. Harshit and Ruseell took two wickets every whereas Narine picked one for Kolkata.
Chasing a troublesome goal, Sunil Narine and Phil Salt produced an explosive begin for Kolkata to take early management of the sport. The duo added 85 runs in the powerplay overs, the joint-sixth greatest complete in the primary six overs in IPL historical past.
New signing Mayank Dagar gave RCB a breakthrough with Narine’s wicket in the seventh over and an affect substitute Vijaykumar Vyshak dismissed Phil Salt in the next over to create some hopes for a comeback. Narine scored 47 off simply 22 balls and Salt added fast 30 runs.
But Kolkata averted any late drama with Venkatesh Iyer and Shreyas Iyer including match-defining 75 runs for the third wicket. Venkatesh top-scored with 50 off 30 balls and Shreyas (39* off 24 balls) completed the sport with a big six off Dagar in the seventeenth over.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Playing XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis (c), Cameron Green, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Anuj Rawat (wk), Dinesh Karthik (substituted by Vijaykumar Vyshak), Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Philip Salt (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy (substituted by Angkrish Raghuvanshi).
