IPL 2024, RCB vs KKR: Virat Kohli On the basis of his unbeaten 83 runs, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) scored 182 runs for six wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League on Friday. Apart from playing an unbeaten inning of 83 runs in 59 balls with four sixes and four fours, he added 65 more runs for the second wicket with Cameron Green (33). Glen Maxwell Also made a partnership of 42 runs with (28) for the third wicket. Dinesh Karthik finally scored 20 runs in eight balls with the help of three sixes. For KKR, Andre Russell took 29 runs while Harshit Rana took two wickets giving 39 runs.
IPL 2024: KKR won the toss and decided to bowl.
Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. Kohli opened the account with a four on the first ball of the innings of Mitchell Starc (47 runs without wicket) while captain Faf Du Plessis (08) hit a six on Harshit Rana but the fast bowler’s next ball was hit into the hands of Starc at short third man. Played. In the next over, Kohli hit a six and a four on consecutive balls from Starc while Green also opened his account with a four.
IPL 2024: Green hit a brilliant six off Sunil Narayan.
Green welcomed Sunil Narayan, who was playing his 500th T20, with two consecutive fours and a six in the sixth over. Due to which RCB scored 61 runs for one wicket in the power play. Kohli also hit a six on this off-spinner. Green hit his second six on Andre Russell but was bowled on the next ball. Facing 21 balls, he hit four fours and two sixes. Kohli completed his second consecutive half-century in 36 balls with a six and one run on leg spinner Varun Chakraborty.
IPL 2024: Maxwell’s form returns
Maxwell completed the team’s century of runs in the 12th over with two consecutive fours on Chakraborty. However, he was lucky in Narayan’s next over when he was caught by Ramandeep Singh at deep midwicket. Maxwell also hit a six on Harshit and in an attempt to repeat this shot on the next ball, the ball waved in the air but this time Narayan failed to catch it at short third man. However, Maxwell could not take advantage of two lives and was caught by Rinku Singh on the ball of Narayan in the next over.
IPL 2024: Andre Russell bowled amazingly
After this, Russell dismissed Rajat Patidar (03) while Harshit dismissed Anuj Rawat (03), making RCB’s score 151 runs for five wickets. As soon as Karthik came, he hit two sixes on Russell. He also hit a six on Starc before being run out on the last ball of the innings.