KKR VS RCB: Kohli's Fifty gone! Rana's Kolkata beat Bangalore
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs in IPL 2023 on the back of a brilliant performance by the bowlers. With this, Kolkata registered their third victory in IPL 2023.
Captain Nitish Rana’s 48 and Jason Roy’s second consecutive half-century helped Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs in IPL 2023 (IPL 2023). With this, Kolkata registered their third victory in IPL 2023.
Chasing the target of 201 runs given by KKR, the RCB team managed to score 179 runs for 8 wickets. This is RCB’s fourth loss in 8 matches. KKR managed to win after losing the last 4. So RCB has lost after winning the last two matches. Virat Kohli scored his 5th half century in this IPL. But Kohli’s half century did not work for the team.
Chasing a big target, RCB lost the wicket of their captain Faf du Plessis at the score of 31. Duplessi was dismissed for 17 runs. RCB suffered another blow at the score of 51. Suyyash Sharma dismissed Shahbaz Ahmed LBWA and sent him to the pavilion. Glenn Maxwell couldn’t do anything special and fell victim to Varun Chakraborty scoring 5 runs in 4 balls. Mahipal Lomaror and Virat Kohli then took RCB’s score past 100.
In the middle order, Lomror got out after scoring 34 runs off 18 balls. Virat Kohli, looking in great form, scored his fifth half-century in the current season. He scored a 33-ball half-century before returning to the pavilion with a 37-ball 54. Suyash Prabhudesai was run out after scoring 10 runs. For KKR, Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets while Suyyash Sharma and Andre Russell took 2 wickets each.
