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KKR won by 9 wickets (60 balls left)
Kolkata Knight Riders stole the show and won the match by 9 wickets with RCB in Abu Dhabi at Sheikh Zayed Stadium.KKR Scored 94/1 with 10 overs and RCB scored 92/10 with 20 overs.
RCB won the toss and Virat Kohli chose to bat first.
RCB put in their best efforts and made maximum attempts to score but ended the match with 92.
Prasid Krishna bowled very well, RCB Captain Virat Kohli who is playing his 200th IPL Match, and Devdutt Padikkal both could not do well with the bat.
RCB recommended K.S Bharat (Keeper) – to be moved ahead of Glen Maxwell and AB de Villiers. The strategy failed Padikkal and Bharat could not bat very well and scored only 41 in six overs.
Shubham Gill and Venkatesh Iyer played really well and helped KKR win the match by reaching the target in just 10 overs. It was the most awaited victory match for KKR.
Team players especially the pacers of KKR did really very well as RCB could score only 92.
KKR struggled quite a lot initially, lost 5 matches out of 7, and were in the seventh position.
Now after winning this match, KKR is in 5th position with 3 wins and six points out of their 8 games this season.
Top batsmen – Kolkata Knight Riders | Shubham Gill -48(34) | Venkatesh Iyer -41(27) | |
Top bowlers – Royal Challengers Bangalore | Yuzvendra Chahal -1/23 | Harsha Patel – 0/13 | |
Player of the match | Varun Chakravarthy – 3/13(4) |
This match was undoubtedly very good so far, earlier until this match KKR’s biggest win in terms of remaining balls left was 37 but today they have increased it and won the match with 60 spare balls.
BackIn the year 2008 Kohli made his first appearance in the IPL match – KKR V/s RCB
Despite losing, RCB looks good to qualify this year by being at the 3rd position with 6 more games in hand.
KKR were the winners over RCB by 9 wickets in their IPL match 2021. RCB chose to bat after winning the toss, KKR had to put in efforts to score more than 92 and were successful in doing that right from the start of the second innings
Andre Russell took 3 wickets. Varun Chakravarthy was declared as the batsman of the match after a stunning performance – the thread maker got 3 wickets in his four overs by giving away just 13 runs. (15 dot balls, a catch, and a run out)
Shubman Gill scored 48 and missed his 50 just by two runs but his partner Venkatesh Iyer played till the end.
Virat Kohli’s decision to quit the captaincy of the team at the end of the season is considered to be one of the biggest losses for RCB.
So far he has been the biggest strength and support for RCB.
Score Board
Royal challengers – 92 (19)
Devdutt Padikkal Andre Russell
22(20) 3/9 (3)
Srikar Bharat Varun Chakravarthy
16(19) 3/13(4)
Harshal Patel Lockie Ferguson
12(10) 2/ 24 (4)
Knight Riders 94/1 (10)
Shubham Gill Yuzvendra Chahal
48(34) 1/23(2)
Venkatesh Iyer Mohammed Siraj
41(27) 0/12(2)
Harshal Patel
0/13(2)