IPL-17 | KKR vs RCB | Kolkata Knight Riders hold nerve to squeeze narrow win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru

Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru by a margin of simply 1 run within the Indian Premier League 2024 match in Kolkata on April 21, 2024.
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In a high-scoring encounter dotted with heart-stopping moments, Kolkata Knight Riders rode on skipper Shreyas Iyer’s half-century and Andre Russell’s wonderful all-round exhibiting to handle an thrilling one-run win over Royal Challengers Bengaluru within the Indian Premier League on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on April 21.

Inserted on a batter-friendly monitor, KKR erected 222 earlier than thwarting RCB’s spirited chase to put up its fifth win. Even in a special uniform, RCB suffered its sixth straight defeat.

With RCB needing 21 within the final over, Karn Sharma unbelievably punished Mitchell Starc in his seven-ball 20 earlier than being dismissed by the Aussie. With three wanted off the final ball, wicketkeeper Phil Salt’s spectacular diving run out stopped RCB simply on the brink.

Throughout RCB’s reply, Harshit Rana stunned Kohli with a excessive full toss and took a catch. The third umpire discovered it to be a authorized supply and gave Kohli out to the dismay of the batter.

After Faf du Plessis’ departure, Will Jacks (55) and Rajat Patidar (52) counter-attacked. Jacks, who dominated the leg-side, mercilessly clobbered bowlers. Jacks, who scored 22 off a Starc over, fashioned a 102-run affiliation with Patidar, who effortlessly clubbed the spinners, in 48 balls.

KKR’s fortunate mascot Russell offered essential breakthroughs by accounting for each within the twelfth over.

Narine scalped Inexperienced and Mahipal Lomror within the subsequent over earlier than KKR bowlers, led by the very good Harshit and Russell, excelled within the loss of life.

Breezy begin

Earlier, Salt gave a advantageous exhibition of unpolluted stroke-play to arrange a stable platform for KKR. Salt (48), who hammered 28 off Lockie Ferguson’s first over, put up a breezy 56-run partnership with Sunil Narine earlier than falling to Mohammad Siraj.

Yash Dayal dismissed Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi within the sixth over and Cameron Inexperienced eliminated Venkatesh Iyer within the ninth.

Shreyas and Rinku Singh batted sensibly so as to add 40.

Shreyas executed his pictures neatly on both facet as he drove, pulled, reverse-hit and uppercut in his first fifty of the season.

Russell and Ramandeep Singh plundered 36 runs within the final two to take the host previous 200 for the fourth time.

Scoreboard

Kolkata Knight Riders innings: Phil Salt c Patidar b Siraj 48 Sunil Narine c Kohli b Dayal 10 Angkrish Raghuvanshi c Inexperienced b Dayal 3 Venkatesh Iyer c Lomror b Inexperienced 16 Shreyas Iyer (c) c du Plessis b Inexperienced 50 Rinku Singh c Dayal b Ferguson 24 Andre Russell not out 27 Ramandeep Singh not out 24 Extras: (B-4, LB-7, NB-2, W-7) 20

Complete: (For six wickets in 20 overs) 222

Fall of wickets: 1-56, 2-66, 3-75, 4-97, 5-137, 6-179.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru bowling: Mohammed Siraj 4-0-40-1, Yash Dayal 4-0-56-2, Lockie Ferguson 4-0-47-1, Karn Sharma 4-0-33-0, Cameron Inexperienced 4-0-35-2.

Royal Challengers Bengaluru innings: Virat Kohli c & b Harshit 18 Faf du Plessis (c) c Venkatesh b Chakravarthy 7 Will Jacks c Raghuvanshi b Russell 55 Rajat Patidar c Harshit b Russell 52 Cameron Inexperienced c Ramandeep b Narine 6 Suyash Prabhudessai c Raghuvanshi b Harshit 24 Mahipal Lomror c & b Narine 4 Dinesh Karthik c Salt b Russell 25 Karn Sharma c & b Starc 20 Mohammed Siraj not out 0 Lockie Ferguson run out 1 Extras: (B-1, LB-4, W-4) 9

Complete: (All out in 20 overs) 221

Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-35, 3-137, 4-138, 5-151, 6-155, 7-187, 8-202, 9-220, 10-221.

Kolkata Knight Riders bowling: Harshit Rana 4-0-33-2, Mitchell Starc 3-0-55-1, Varun Chakravarthy 4-0-36-1, Sunil Narine 4-0-34-2, Suyash Sharma 2-0-33-0, Andre Russell 3-0-25-3.