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IPL 2021: Narine’s night time out in Sharjah brings curtains on Virat Kohli’s RCB captaincy as KKR system to face DC

Sunil Narine after his figures of 4/21 with the ball, smashed three sixes in Dan Christian’s one over to knock RCB out of IPL 2021.

Sunil Narine starred with every bat and ball for the Kolkata Knight Riders knocking RCB out of IPL 2021 | Photograph: BCCI / IPL

Up to this point: Oct 12, 2021, 12: 54 AM IST

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) spinner Sunil Narine had an evening out in Sharjah on Monday in the Eliminator of the 2021 version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) with every bat and ball against the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) as they’ll now face the Delhi Capitals in Qualifier 2.

Virat Kohli’s time as RCB skipper got here to a heartbreaking stop as his bowlers stretched the game to the final over, overcoming a amazing opening partnership between Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer, overcoming a Sunil Narine burst of 26 runs in only 15 balls when he smashed three sixes in precisely one over by Dan Christian but it wasn’t to be.

It changed into as soon as only one man’s night time, who may perhaps maybe well well attain no inappropriate on the day. Every time he picked up the ball, he took a wicket. Narine took one wicket in every of his four overs and he removed the likes of KS Bharat, Virat Kohli, Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers. It has to be some night time in the event you are sending help four batters in a knockout match.

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138 wasn’t going to be ample but RCB’s Indian bowlers made merry. Mohammed Siraj, Harshal ‘Purple’ Patel, who equalled Dwayne Bravo’s tally of 32 wickets and Yuzevndra Chahal picked two wickets every going decrease than 5 runs an over but in the event you are defending a low rating that you may perhaps no longer manage to pay for worthy overs and RCB had two.

One by George Garton in the powerplay, the set Shubman Gill took him on for three boundaries and the one Christian over which honest changed the game as besides three sixes by Narine, who got here in at No 5, it changed into as soon as also three wides and extra runs that honest released any rigidity that changed into as soon as on the KKR batters.

Siraj did make the game exciting by dismissing Narine and Dinesh Karthik in the identical over but 12 runs wanted off 12 balls with skipper Eoin Morgan and Shakib in the center changed into as soon as going to be a formality and the two mute heads did it for the boys in pink.

KKR, who had been bossing Sharjah will confident as they clutch on Delhi Capitals, coming off from two shut losses on the identical venue on Wednesday.

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