Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 8 wickets at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi and registered their seventh win of the season while Kolkata Knight Riders suffered their fifth loss.
Earlier Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bat first. Bangalore Mohammad Siraj gave his team a dream start by taking 3 wickets in the first 2 overs and both his overs were maidens and at 3/3 Kolkata was in deep trouble and after such a poor start they couldn't recover and kept losing wickets regularly.
Captain Eoin Morgan's 30 and useful knocks from Lockie Ferguson and Kuldeep Yadav helped Kolkata to post a mere total of 84/8 on the board. For Bangalore Mohammad Siraj took 3 wickets for just 8 runs.
In reply, Aaron Finch and Devdutt Padikkal gave a decent start of 46 runs and at the same score both batsmen got out but it was too late for Knight Riders and later Gurkeerat Singh Mann and Virat Kohli took their team home.
All the major stats and facts from the 39th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore in Abu Dhabi :
1 - Mohammed Siraj became the first-ever bowler to bowl 2 maiden overs in an IPL match and Bangalore bowlers bowled a total of 4 maidens in this match which is also the most maidens bowled by a team in an IPL match.
17/4 - Kolkata Knight Riders' score after the end of power play - the lowest power play score in this IPL season.
Lowest power-play scores in IPL 2020 -
17/4 - KKR vs RCB at Abu Dhabi
23/3 - DC vs KXIP at Dubai
25/2 - KKR vs KXIP at Abu Dhabi
26/2 - CSK vs RCB at Dubai
26/1 - SRH vs RR at Dubai
84/8 - Kolkata Knight Riders' 84/8 is the lowest total for a team that batted all 20 overs in an IPL match.
Lowest totals batting all 20 overs in IPL -
84/8 - KKR vs RCB at Abu Dhabi, 2020
92/8 - KXIP vs CSK at Durban, 2009
94/8 - MI vs RR at Jaipur, 2011
95/9 - KXIP vs CSK at Chennai, 2015
84/8 - It is also the second-ever lowest total for Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL.
Lowest totals for KKR in IPL -
67 vs MI at Mumbai, 2008
84/8 vs RCB at Abu Dhabi, 2020
95 vs MI Port Elizabeth, 2009
101 vs Deccan Chargers at Cape Town, 2009
105 vs MI at Mumbai, 2013
117 - Bowling average of Kolkata Knight Riders' bowlers in power play this season. They have taken only 3 wickets in power play in 10 matches of this season so far.
500 - Virat Kohli became the second batsman to hit 500 fours in the Indian Premier League after Shikhar Dhawan.
Most fours in IPL -
575 - Shikhar Dhawan
500 - Virat Kohli
493 - Suresh Raina
492 - Gautam Gambhir
485 - David Warner
