Sports Top 10: Kolkata Knight Riders won the match played against Royal Challengers Bangalore by 7 wickets at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. In this match, RCB team batted first and scored 182 runs in 20 overs, in response to which KKR achieved the target in just 16.5 overs at the loss of 3 wickets and registered their second win this season. At the same time, Pakistan team will visit Ireland to test its preparations before the T20 World Cup to be held in the month of June, where it will play a three-match T20 series.
KKR defeated RCB with the innings of Salt and Narayan.
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated RCB one-sidedly by 7 wickets at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Royal Challengers Bangalore team, batting first, scored 182 runs on the basis of Virat Kohli’s unbeaten inning of 83 runs. When KKR came out to chase the target, the opening pair of Phil Salt and Sunil Narine gave an explosive start to the team and completely ousted RCB in the match. While Salt played an inning of 30 runs, Narayan scored 47 runs. Apart from this, Venkatesh Iyer ensured the team’s victory by playing an inning of 50 runs.
Faf du Plessis told the pitch as the main reason for the defeat
After the defeat against KKR, Royal Challengers Bangalore team captain Faf du Plessis cited the double bounce present in the pitch as the main reason for the defeat. Faf said that during the first innings, the ball was coming off the pitch a little late, but during the second innings, the pitch became much better, which made it easier to score runs. Due to this behavior of the pitch during our batting, it was not easy to score runs in which even Virat Kohli had to struggle a bit. KKR bowlers used cutters and back-of-the-length balls more against us in conditions where it was not easy to score fast runs.
KKR reached second place in the points table
After the 7-wicket win against RCB, Kolkata Knight Riders team has now directly reached the second position in the points table. KKR has played 2 matches so far this season and has won both. After the defeat in this match, RCB is in sixth place, in which their net run rate is also -0.711. In the points table of the IPL 2024 season, after 10 matches, Chennai Super Kings team is at the first position, Rajasthan Royals is at the third position while Sunrisers Hyderabad team is at the fourth position.
Virat Kohli became the player to hit most sixes for RCB in IPL
Starting the innings in the match against KKR, Virat Kohli played an unbeaten inning of 83 runs on 59 balls. During this period he hit a total of 4 sixes. Virat Kohli now has the most sixes in his name for RCB. In this list, he has left behind AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle. As soon as Virat Kohli hit his second six in this match, he went ahead of AB de Villiers. As soon as he hit the third six, he went ahead of Chris Gayle. Virat now has a total of 240 sixes in his name in IPL. Which he has rooted for RCB. Whereas Chris Gayle hit 239 sixes for RCB and De Villiers hit a total of 238 sixes.
Corey Anderson gets place in America’s T20 team
As part of its preparations for the T20 World Cup 2024, America has announced the team for the T20 series against Canada. In this, former all-rounder Corey Anderson, who played international cricket for New Zealand, has got a place in the USA team. Corey Anderson will return to international cricket after 5 years. The 5-match T20 series between America and Canada will start from April 7. If we talk about former New Zealand team all-rounder Corey Anderson, he last played an international match for the Kiwi team 5 years ago in 2018.
Riyan Parag told about the conversation with his father
Riyan Parag, a part of Rajasthan Royals team in the 17th season of IPL, has seen excellent performance with the bat in 2 matches so far, in which in the match against Lucknow Super Giants, he got the team out of a difficult situation and reached a fighting score in the match. Had played an innings. At the same time, Parag has also revealed the conversation he had with his father, in which his father had asked, do you know why people troll you? On this, Parag replied to his father that people have expectations from me and people want me to be successful. The day I start scoring consistently. That day these trolls will sing a song in my name.
England players may leave for their country in the middle of IPL
The playoff matches of IPL 2024 being played in India will be played from May 21 to May 24. The final match of IPL 2024 is to be played on 26 May. Meanwhile, Pakistan Cricket Board has announced that it will play T20 series against England from May 22 to May 30. This series is to be organized in England. In such a situation, some star players of England, who are part of the team plan for the T20 World Cup to be held in June, may return to their country before the IPL 2024 playoffs.
Pakistan team will tour Ireland after 8 years
The T20 series between Pakistan and Ireland will be organized from May 10 to May 14. All the matches of this series will be played in Dublin. Let us tell you that Pakistan team last played T20 series against Ireland in the year 2009. Since then, the two countries have not played in this format on any occasion. It was decided to play a two-match T20I series between the two teams in July 2020, but it was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Conversation between Gambhir and Kohli during the match
During the match between RCB and KKR, a unique sight was seen on the field at the strategic time out. When Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir were seen hugging each other. This video of his is going viral on social media. RCB has shared a photo of these two on social media platform ‘X’. Last IPL season also there was an argument between Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir. Then Kohli had a clash with Naveen Ul Haq and Gambhir joined the argument. After this, the statements of both the players were in discussion.
Lucknow Super Giants will compete with Punjab Kings
In the 11th match of the 17th season of IPL, the match between Lucknow Super Giants and Punjab Kings will be played at Ekana Stadium in Lucknow. This season, Lucknow has played only one match so far and it had to face defeat. Whereas Punjab team has played 2 matches and out of them they won one while they had to face defeat in the other.
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