KKR defeated RCB by 21 runs: Kolkata Knight Riders defeated the Royal Challengers Bangalore in their own ground M Chinnaswamy Stadium by 21 runs. Once again KKR spin again rescues their team.
KKR defeated RCB by 21 runs
Two mystery spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Suyash Sharma took 5 wickets of RCB. Varun Chakaravarthy took 3 wickets in 4 fours and gave 27 runs. Suyash Sharma took 2 wickets in 4 overs and gave 30 runs. Varun was declared man of the match.
KKR Innings
In the first inning, KKR scored 200 runs in 20 overs for the loss of 5 wickets. Jason Roy made 56 in 29 balls with 4 fours and 5 sixes. Narayan Jagadeesan made 27 in 29 balls, Venkatesh Iyer made 31 in 26 balls, and Nitish Rana made 48 runs in 21 balls with 3 fours and 4 sixes. Rinku Singh and David Wiese quick fire 18 and 12 runs.
RCB Innings
RCB inning started on a blistering note. In 2.2 overs RCB scored 31 runs. But their journey break by Suyash Sharma. He sent two batsmen to the pavilion (Faf du Plessis 17 runs and Shahbaz Ahmed on a duck). Virat Kohli and Mahipal Lomror did some good hitting. Virat Kohli made 54 runs in 37 balls with 6 fours while Lomror made 34 runs in 18 balls with 1 four and 3 sixes. Apart from them, no player made any impact and they remain short by 21 runs. (KKR defeated RCB by 21 runs)
“First you plan a certain way and then you see the result on the pitch. KKR decided that against RCB, they’d use their spinners more. The spinners went and executed. It’s not just the captain, but you have to have bowlers of a high calibre.
Zaheer Khan told Jio Cinema
“The one thing we’ve seen this evening is that KKR’s strength lies in their spin bowling. They leave an impact on a game with their bowling in favourable conditions,”
KKR bowling
| KKR Bowling | 0vers | Maiden | Runs | Wickts |
| Vaibhav Arora | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Umesh Yadav | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Suyash Sharma | 4 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
| Varun Chakaravarthy | 4 | 0 | 27 | 3 |
| Andre Russell | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 |
| Nitish Rana | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
RCB Batting
| RCB Batting | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
| Virat Kohli (C) (c Venkatesh Iyer b Andre Russell) | 54 | 37 | 6 | 0 |
| Faf du Plessis (c Rinku Singh b Suyash Sharma) | 17 | 7 | 1 | 2 |
| Shahbaz Ahmed (lbw b Suyash Sharma) | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Glenn Maxwell (c David Wiese b Varun Chakaravarthy) | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| Mahipal Lomror (c Andre Russell b Varun Chakaravarthy) | 34 | 18 | 1 | 3 |
| Dinesh Karthik (W) (c Rinku Singh b Varun Chakaravarthy) | 22 | 18 | 1 | 1 |
| Suyash Prabhudessai (run out (sub Anukul Roy / Suyash Sharma)) | 10 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| Wanindu Hasaranga (c sub Anukul Roy b Andre Russell) | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| David Willey | 11 | 10 | 1 | 0 |
| Vyshak Vijay Kumar | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 |
KKR defeated RCB by 21 runs man of the match is Varun.
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