New Delhi. Kolkata Knight Riders has become the first team to defeat a host opponent in IPL 2024. Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore easily on Friday. This is also KKR’s second consecutive win in IPL. With this victory, he has captured the second position in the points table. On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) has become the third team to lose 2 matches in the tournament. Mumbai Indians and Delhi Capitals have also lost two matches each.
The match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) took place at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. Thanks to the brilliant innings of Virat Kohli, RCB scored 182 runs for 6 wickets in the match. Kohli scored 83 runs on 59 balls. He was the top scorer not only of his team but also of the match. But his innings could not win the match for RCB. Apart from Virat, no other batsman of RCB could score even 40 runs. Cameron Green (33), Glenn Maxwell (28) made a good start, but could not prolong their innings. Dinesh Karthik played an inning of 20 runs in 8 balls in the last overs.
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Kolkata Knight Riders did not face any problem in achieving the target of 183 runs. KKR team, under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, won the match by losing 3 wickets in just 16.5 overs. From his side, Venkatesh Iyer scored the maximum 50 runs.
Sunil Narine’s brilliant innings
All-rounder Sunil Narine played the best innings for Kolkata Knight Riders. Sunil Narine, who was handling the responsibility of opening, scored 47 runs in just 22 balls. He also got good support from fellow opener Phil Salt (30). Both of them laid the foundation of victory by scoring 86 runs in 6.6 overs. On this foundation, Venkatesh Iyer (50) along with captain Shreyas Iyer (39) built the building of victory. Venkatesh was out after coming close to victory. After this, Shreyas Iyer and Rinku Singh (5) took KKR to the target. Sunil Narine was elected player of the match.
KKR got the advantage of winning the toss
KKR got the advantage of fielding first by winning the toss in the match. RCB captain Faf du Plessis, and KKR’s Venkatesh Iyer admitted that the ball was coming on the pitch at double pace. Due to this, there was trouble in batting at first. As the game progressed and dew fell, batting also became easier. Steve Smith said in the post match show of Star Sports that it is true that it was difficult to bat on this pitch in the beginning but there is no doubt that the RCB bowlers bowled poorly. This was the 10th match of IPL. For the first time in the tournament, the host team had to face defeat.
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Tags: IPL 2024, kkr, rcb, Sunil Narine, Virat Kohli
FIRST PUBLISHED: March 29, 2024, 22:47 IST