Match 36 of the IPL 2023 saw Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) clashing with Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on April 26, at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. It was an opportunity for RCB to avenge their 81-run loss to KKR in their previous meeting at Eden Gardens.
Virat Kohli was once again captaining RCB and won the toss and chose to bowl first. RCB came in with an unchanged XI, while KKR included Vaibhav Arora in their XI.
Jason Roy (56) and N Jagadeesan (27) added 83 runs in 9.2 overs for the first wicket and when they got out, it looked like RCB would restrict them to a below-par total. But then Venkatesh Iyer (31), Captain Nitish Rana (48 in 21 balls), and then the duo of Rinku Singh (18*) and David Wiese (12* in 3 balls) took KKR to 200/5 in 20 overs.
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Vijaykumar Vyshak and Wanindu Hasaranga picked two wickets each.
In reply, Virat Kohli with 54 in 37 balls, and Mahipal Lomror 34 played some entertaining shots but KKR continued to pick wickets at regular intervals to keep RCB behind the required run rate. Dinesh Karthik also made 22 in 18, but RCB couldn’t do much and ended with 179/8 in 20 overs.
Varun Chakravarthy was the pick of bowlers with 3/27 and Suyash Sharma and Andre Russell also picked 2 wickets each, as KKR won the game by 21 runs.
KKR is at 8th spot in the points table with 3 wins from 8 games and RCB is 5th with 4 wins in 8 games.
The cricket fraternity reacted to RCB's poor outing against KKR once again in this tournament.
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