Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by eight wickets. Bangalore held Kolkata to an extremely low score. Kolkata could only manage 84 runs for eight wickets in 20 overs. Bangalore achieved this target by losing two wickets in 13.3 overs.
IPL 2020: Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets in the 39th match of IPL-13 played at Abu Dhabi Sheikh Zayed Stadium. Batting first in the match, KKR had scored 84 runs for 8 wickets, which was the lowest score of the season and overall the second lowest score of KKR. King Khan, the KKR batsman owned by Shah Rukh Khan, could not survive in front of the Bangalore bowlers including Man of the Match Mohammad Siraj and Yuzvendra Chahal. In reply, Bangalore won by losing 2 wickets in 13.3 overs.
Virat Kohli scored 18 not out from 17 balls, while Gurkirat Man Singh scored 21 runs from 26 balls. With this win, Bangalore's team has reached second in the points table with 14 points from 10 matches and 7 wins. He overtook Mumbai Indians (12 points). On the other hand, KKR's team remains at number four after the 5th defeat in 10 matches.
Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore held Kolkata Knight Riders to their lowest score of the season due to their superb bowling. Kolkata could only manage 84 runs after losing eight wickets after playing 20 overs. Only four of his bats could barely touch the double figures. Mohammad Siraj, who replaced Shahbaz Ahmed in this match, gave Bangalore the best start of the season so far.
Siraj brought out Kolkata under pressure by dismissing Rahul Tripathi (1) and Nitish Rana (0) on two successive balls. In the next over, Navdeep Saini caught Shubman Gill (1) in the hands of Chris Maurice. Then Siraj, who brought his next over, dismissed Kolkata's Tom Benton (10) in this match, and made Kolkata score 15/4.
Kolkata scored just 17 runs in the Pawarplay. Captain Ian Morgan and Dinesh Karthik (4) were now the team's weight, but Kohli's biggest weapon Yuzvendra Chahal first made Karthik his victim, then the umpire gave Pat Cummins LBW on his ball, but Cummins reviewed Laya therefore survived. Cummins survived here but Chahal finally trapped Cummins in his trick on the third ball in the 13th over. Cummins could score only four runs.
Chahal's partner off-spinner Washington Sundar then broke Morgan's back to dismiss Morgan. Morgan scored 30 runs. Kuldeep Yadav (12) and Lockie Ferguson (19 not out) tried to take the team beyond the 100 but could not succeed. For Kolkata, Siraj took three, Chahal two, Saini and Sundar took one wicket each.
Bangalore team started off to chase very easy target. Opener Devdutt Padikkal and Aaron Finch added 46 runs in 6.4 overs. During this time, Devdutt was seen in rhythm and KKR's strategy was also incomprehensible. Lockie Ferguson, who won the last match, did not give the bowling in the powerplay.
When Lockie got the ball in the 7th over, he gave Aaron Finch the first success by catching Aaron Finch in the hands of Dinesh Karthik. Finch scored 16 runs in 21 balls. Devdutt Padikkal was also run out on the fourth ball of the same over. He scored 25 runs in 17 balls with the help of 3 fours. After this, Virat Kohli and Gurkeerat Mann did not allow RCB to take any blow.
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