KKR vs RCB Highlights Today
KKR vs RCB Highlights Today: The runs feat game at Eden Gardens finally ended in Kolkata Knight Riders favour, as they defeated the Royal Challengers Bengaluru by one run
Will Jacks 55 (32) and Rajat Patidar 52 (23) played responsible knocks for their team, but that wasn’t enough to drive their side home as RCB remained in tenth spot on the points table with the loss again.
Earlier, Kolkata posted 222 runs on board after Philip Salt provided them a solid start with a 14-ball 48, while Shreyas Iyer’s 50, and Andre Russell death over’s heroics guided KKR to a mammoth total.
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KKR vs RCB Match 36 Highlights
KKR vs RCB Highlights Today: Invited to bat first, KKR again managed to make a dreamy start and collected 56 runs for the first wicket before Salt walked back to the pavilion.
Salt was on a mission, punishing each ball to score a 14-ball 48.
Sunil Narine’s magic did not work in today’s game. While Venkatesh also failed to score decent runs with the bat.
Skipper Shreyas Iyer’s gained the form just at the right as his fifty rescued the side, while Andre Russell’s 20-ball 27 and Ramandeep Singh’s 9-ball 24 provided the finishing touches and KKR were able to post 222.
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KKR vs RCB: Bengaluru to chase 223 in 20 overs
Chasing a target of 223, RCB made a good start, Virat Kohli was looking in good touch and his six over wide long on against Mitchell Starc also highlighted his intentions.
Harshit Rana came into bowl the third over of the innings and Kohli was clueless on his high full toss. Rana made no mistake and took the catch.
Kohli, however, did not at all look satisfied with the decision and wanted a no-ball, but it was a slower ball and had dipped enough, the ball tracking also showed the ball would have been below the waist if Kohli had been in his normal position.
Faf also got dismissed in the next over.
Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar rescued the side with their brilliant fifties and RCB were looking in complete control after having 137 runs in 11 overs.
With 86 to win in last 9 overs, RCB lost their 4 batters in next 12 balls.
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Dinesh Karthik also failed to play the finisher role for RCB today. The game, however, went to the last over and RCB required 21 with 2 wickets in hand.
Karn Sharma smashed the first ball six against Starc to keep their hopes alive, missed the second ball, and struck 2 consecutive sixes again to minimize the gap to 3 to win in 2 balls.
Starc caught and bowled Karn in the penultimate ball of the game.
With 3 to win on last ball, and Lockie Ferguson was on the strike, Starc bowled a yorker outside off stumps and Ferguson played it through the deep extra cover region, completed the first run, but was fell short of his ground due to Salt’s brilliance behind the stumps.
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