Russell, Chakravarthy & Shubman Gill scintillating performance guide KKR to clinch 9 wickets over RCB, Stays fifth in table
KKR beats RCB: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the 31st match of IPL 2021 being played at the Sheikh Zayed Stadium here on the back of brilliant bowling from Varun Chakravarthy (3/13) and Andre Russell (3/9) Wicket defeated.
Batting first, Bangalore team was all out after scoring 92 runs in 19 overs. Chasing the target, KKR team won the match by scoring 94 runs in 10 overs losing one wicket. KKR won with 60 balls to spare. This is KKR’s biggest win in terms of ball remaining.
Opener Shubman Gill played a brilliant innings of 48 runs in 34 balls with the help of six fours and a six. While debutant Venkatesh Iyer played a stormy innings and scored an unbeaten 41 runs in 37 balls with the help of seven fours and a six and KKR Won the match.
KKR beats RCB
Yuzvendra Chahal took one wicket for Bangalore. Earlier, after winning the toss, RCB captain Virat Kohli decided to bat first but his decision did not prove to be correct and captain Kohli. Who came to open, got out after scoring five runs.
Devdutt Padikkal, who came to open with the captain. He tried to handle the inning. But he too was dismissed for 22 runs in 20 balls with the help of three fours.
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Debuting wicketkeeper batsman KS India’s bat, who was debuting for RCB. He also remained silent and he scored 16 runs in 19 balls with the help of a four.
The team expected a lot from Glenn Maxwell and AB de Villiers. But neither of the batsmen could bat, both the batsmen were dismissed after scoring 10 and 0 runs respectively.
Sachin Baby 7, Vanindu Hasaranga 0, Kyle Jamieson 4, Harshal Patel 12, Mohammad Siraj 8 and Yuzvendra Chahal remained unbeaten on 2 runs.
Apart from Chakraborty and Russell, Lockie Ferguson took two wickets for KKR and the Prasidh Krishna took one wicket.
