MATCH REPORT: M35 - Kolkata Knight Riders VS Royal Challengers Bangalore

MATCH REPORT: M35 - Kolkata Knight Riders VS Royal Challengers Bangalore

Match Replay

Virat Kohli gave the most memorable back-to-the-wall performance to win the Royal Challengers Bangalore by 10 runs on the Kolkata Knight Riders in VIVO IPL 2019 match 35.

RCB was below the heap with eight wins from eight matches and his playoff aspirations were reduced to a mathematical equation. In order to maintain that equation, RCB had to win each of their remaining matches. After AB de Villiers, the obstacles against RCB in Eden Gardens on Friday night - one of his batting main stops - was declared unavailable due to medical reasons. It meant that the captain of the RCB had additional responsibility and pressure on the shoulders.

Virat responded in style, defeated his fifth IPL century and his team with a superb 213-4. He got good support from Moin Ali, who scored a brilliant half-century at number four. England's all-rounder scored 66 runs and shared 90 runs with his captain.

RCB, who was 42-1 at the end of the powerplay, added 107 runs in the next 10 overs - the blues of Mune Ali's blues, and then finished adding another 64 runs in the last four overs - this time thanks for the acceleration of Virat.

Kolkata Knight Riders VS Royal Challengers Bangalore

For KKR bowlers it was a great night to forget; Special Krishna (4-0-52-0) and Kuldeep Yadav (4-0-59-1) especially suffer the brunt of the punishment. Sunil Narine, Harry Gurani, Andre Russell, and Kuldeep took one wicket each.

Knight Riders was faced with extremely difficult work. Never before was the goal because 214 in T20 matches was followed in Eden Gardens; This record will remain intact. Despite the spectacular blasts of Nitish Rana and Andre Russell and the 118-run partnership between them, KKR could only reach 203-5

Nitish Rana, batting at number five, was playing an unbeaten inning of 85 (45 balls, 9 fours, 5 sixes), while Russell made 25 fours and nine sixes in 25 balls before playing 65 runs in 25 balls. After compiling Robin Uthappa once in 20 balls, this pair got together in the twelfth over, 9.KKR needed 135 runs in 49 balls at that time; Rana and Russell added 118 runs in eight overs and remained almost unbeaten. At the end of KKR's innings, there was a startling statue in which his batsmen played 59 dot delivery; So, he scored 203 runs in 61 balls!

For RCB, Dale Steyn (2-40) made an immediate impact after joining the team as a replacement player; South Africa should have lost Chris Lynn's wicket on the first ball of the innings, but Stoney's gave him a chance in the slip. He eventually took the wicket of KKR opener and then took the second wicket after Schumann Gill was dismissed. Navdeep Saini (1-31) and Stonis (1-32) picked up one wicket each.

Standing Batting Performance

Virat Kohli was fluttering at the start of his innings. The captain of the RCB told through his knock that there was enough time in the 20-over format to produce an innings for a batsman. Virat worked quickly on almost one run-ball, like a switch of a button, he switched to the gear. The trigger happened in the eleventh over when he was making 35 runs in 32 balls; Virat cast a ball on Andreas Russell's small pitch and put him in the back of square-leg.

Since that time - when the gear shift occurred, then Virat did not play a single dot delivery until the last ball of the innings was bowled. He made his fifty off 40 balls and needed only 17 more deliveries to reach the triple figure. Virat scored five fours and three sixes in his second half of 50 runs.

The other highlight of Virat's innings was his stroke play; He did not have to make strokes, he did not have to improve and did not have to cultivate. Instead, almost all of them were gathered to play authentic cricket strokes such as cover drives, on-drives, pad puns or pull and hook shots.

He was also part of Virat's fate; On two occasions - when he was 14 and 50, then fast bowler Prasidha Krishna got the outer edge of the captain of the RCB captain, but the ball flew through the empty slip cordon and the third man reached the boundary.

Notable Support Act - Batting

Virat Kohli's century probably will lead to headlines, but Moin Ali's performance was as good as the bat, if not better. The left-handed batsman came for batting when RCB made 59-2 lead by the end of the ninth over.

He started off aggressively; The second ball he faced, dropped the pitch down and kept left-handed wrist spinner Kuldeep for a long time. Over the next over, Moin - when on 9th - ran away when he got a thin edge in an attempt to cut Andre Russell, but any fielder KKR did not pay attention to this increase and no one appealed for this.

The left-handed batsman repeatedly targeted the wide long-on and the midwicket field. Moin ruined Kuldeep Yadav's 16th over; They hit spinners three sixes and two fours. That was a major inning of speed in that particular over, and even though the bowler was the last laugher, but the last ball of the over was badly damaged before the batsman was dismissed.

Moin put on fifty off 24 balls and scored 66 runs; His 28-ball innings included five fours and six sixes.

Short score:

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 213-4 (Virat Kohli 100, Moin Ali 66) beat

Kolkata Knight Riders: 203-5 (Nitish Rana 85 *, Andre Russell 65)

State of the match

The Royal Challengers Bangalore will have the highest number of touring teams in 213-4 Eden Gardens.

Dale Steyn played his first match for the RCB in almost nine years; His last appearance for the franchise in IPL was on 24 April 2010. This match will be Stan's 200th T20 match against Knight Riders.

In the T20 matches played at Eden Gardens, 418 runs will be the highest overall.

Best match player
Virat Kohli scored 100 runs in 58 balls.