Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered an embarrassing loss at their dwelling floor, Chinnaswamy Stadium within the match towards Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR registered their second win towards RCB in IPL on Wednesday as they beat the latter by 21 runs. RCB’s stand-in skipper Virat Kohli expressed disappointment with the outcome and blamed their tender dismissals and sloppy fielding for shedding the game.
Nitish Rana smashed 48 runs off 21 balls after being dropped twice as KKR ended up scoring 200/5. Coming to chase, RCB managed to rating simply 179/8 with solely Mahipal Lomror 34 (18) and Virat Kohli 54 (37) registering greater than 30 runs.
“To be honest we handed over the game to them. We deserved to lose,” Kohli mentioned on the put up-match presentation.
“We weren’t skilled sufficient. We bowled properly however fielding was not up to normal. This was a freebie handed over to them.
“In the field, we dropped two chances, that cost us 25-30 runs. When batting, we set us ourselves up very well, but then (suffered) four-five soft dismissals.”
RCB misplaced early wickets as Faf du Plessis (17), Shahbaz Ahmed (2), and Glenn Maxwell (5) had been dismissed within the powerplay.Â
“Not wicket-taking balls, but we hit straight to the fielders. Even while chasing, after losing wickets, one partnership brought us back into the game. We were one partnership short. We need to stay switched on, and not give away soft plays,” Kohli mentioned.
The participant-of-the-match Varun Chakravarthy who completed with spectacular figures – 3/27, devoted the award to his new child son.
 “I’d like to credit this to my newborn son, still not able to see him, I’d like to dedicate it to him and my wife.”
“I used to be extra centered on accuracy quite than extra variations. I did not need to add extra variations. I’ve been working so much and I’d like to credit score AC Pratheepan — he is been working for me and even Abhishek Nayar. I’d like to thank them.
“I like that challenge (to bowl the difficult overs) and Nitish is giving the ball whenever he wants me to do the job, I am liking it.”
