RCB vs KKR: KKR Wins

Kolkata Knight Riders Beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs.

In the 36th match of IPL 2023, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs. Batting first after losing the toss in a match played at the Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru, Kolkata scored 200 runs, losing five wickets in 20 overs. Jason Roy scored 56 runs in 29 balls with the help of four fours and five sixes. At the same time, captain Nitish Rana played an inning of 48 runs in 21 balls with the help of three fours and four sixes. In response, the Bangalore team could only manage 179 runs after losing eight wickets in 20 overs. Captain Virat Kohli played an inning of 54 runs in 37 balls with the help of six fours. The Kolkata team won the first match after losing four consecutive matches. At the same time, the Bangalore team got defeated after two consecutive wins. KKR has three wins and five losses in eight matches. With six points, the team is in seventh position in the points table. At the same time, Bangalore’s team are fifth in the points table with four wins and four losses in eight matches. Bangalore got the eighth blow on a score of 154 in the 18th over. Dinesh Karthik was out after scoring 22 runs in 18 balls. Currently David Willey and Vijayakmara Vishak are at the crease. Bangalore needed 44 runs in 12 balls. Kolkata have made their grip on the match.Bangalore got their seventh blow in the 17th over at a score of 152. After 17 overs, RCB have scored 153 runs for seven wickets. Currently David Willey and Dinesh Karthik are at the crease. The team needs 48 runs in 18 balls. In this over, Anukul Roy was caught by Wanindu Hasaranga off Russell. He could score five runs. After 15 overs, Bangalore scored 138 runs, losing six wickets. The team needs 63 runs in 30 balls. Currently Dinesh Karthik and Wanindu Hasaranga are at the crease. Suyash Prabhudesai ran out in the 15th over. He could score 10 runs in nine balls. Bangalore got the fourth blow on a score of 113. Varun Chakraborty gets Mahipal Lomor caught by Russell. Lomor could score 34 runs in 18 balls. Dinesh Karthik is currently at the crease after scoring one run and Virat Kohli scoring 54 runs. Kohli scored the fifth half-century of the season. He completed Fifty out of 33 balls. This was the 49th half-century of Kohli’s IPL career. Bangalore now needs 86 runs in 48 balls.

After nine overs, Bangalore have scored 80 runs losing three wickets. Mahipal Lomror was at the crease, scoring 13 runs in 10 balls and Virat Kohli scoring 42 runs in 28 balls. The team needs 121 runs in 66 balls. Bangalore got their third blow in the sixth over on a score of 58. Varun Chakraborty gets Glenn Maxwell caught by David Weiss. He could score five runs in four balls. Currently Virat Kohli is on 33 runs in 19 balls and Mahipal Lomror is at the crease. Earlier, Suyash had sent Faf Duplessis and Shahbaz Ahmed to the pavilion. Bangalore needed 143 runs in 84 balls. After 14 overs, Kolkata scored 126 runs, losing two wickets. Currently Venkatesh Iyer is batting 20 runs in 15 balls and Nitish Rana is batting 18 runs in 11 balls. There has been a 30+ run partnership between the two. Kolkata suffered two setbacks in the 10th over. Vijaykumar Vaishak sent Narayan Jagadishan and Jason Roy to the pavilion in this over. Vaishak first got Jagdishan caught at the hands of Willy. At the same time, on the last ball of the over, Vaishak clean bowled Jason Roy to the best yorker. Narayan Jagdishan got out after scoring 27 runs in 29 balls. He hit four fours in his innings. At the same time, Jason hit four fours and five sixes in his innings of 56 runs in 29 balls.