Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 36th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

Series: Indian Premier League 2023 Venue: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru Date & Time: Apr 26, 07:30 PM LOCAL
KKR 200/5 (20)
RCB 179/8 (20)
Kolkata Knight Riders won by 21 runs
PLAYER OF THE MATCH
Varun Chakaravarthy

KKR have beaten RCB twice this season. Both times, they posted 200+ on the board and choked RCB with spin. They move to the seventh spot with this win while Bangalore stay put at the fifth. That's it for today. The action shifts from the Garden City to the Pink City where Rajasthan Royals will be hosting CSK, the table-toppers. Until tomorrow, it's goodbye from Abhinand Raghavendran on behalf of Sagar Chawla, Kumar Abhisekh Das and Praveen.

Varun Chakaravarthy | Player of the Match: Last match I went for 49 and this match I did well. That's how crazy life is. (This year) More focused on accuracy rather than more variations. I didn't want to add more variations. I have been working a lot and I'd like to credit AC Pratheepan - he's been working for me and even Abhishek Nayar. I'd like to thank them. I like that challenge (to bowl the difficult overs) and Nitish is giving the ball whenever he wants me to do the job, I am liking it. I'd like to credit this to my new born son, still not able to see him, I'd like to dedicate it to him and my wife.

Nitish Rana: Last 3-4 matches I've been saying the same thing at the toss - if we play well collectively, result will be in our favour. You need a lot of character in the dressing room to give a performance like this in our situation. The belief has always been there that we'll bounce back. We wanted to put a score on the board. Felt like it would turn in the second innings because there wasn't much dew. It didn't turn a lot but we bowled well. Whenever I've spoken to him (Suyash Sharma), he has always put his hand up. He always says I'll do the job. We tell him to not look at who is batting against you, just focus on your own bowling.

Andre Russell: We really needed that victory. Have been under the pump last couple of games. Batting first tonight, we know once we get a good total on the board - runs on the board is pressure. Our goal was to keep their powerplay under 55. We were able to pull it back in the middle. Batting first or batting second comes down to the amount of runs you're setting up, and the dew factor. Once I get the ball I try to do my best. Have been struggling in patches with the bat. Still confident, still know what to do. Got a really good yorker, credit to Siraj. Recovery is important to me. The older I get, the more experienced, the more I look after my body.

Virat Kohli: To be honest we handed them the game. We did deserve to lose. We handed them a victory. We were certainly not up to standard. If you look at the game, we didn't capitalize our chances. We dropped a few chances which cost us 25-30 runs. We set up ourselves really well. We ended up hitting the fielder to balls which weren't wicket taking. It is what's on the scoreboard and how to get them. Even while chasing, despite losing wickets we were one partnership away from being in the game. We needed one partnership to get us home. We need to be switched on and not give away soft plays. We have won one and lost one on the road. It is not something that is making us nervous. We need to win some away games to be in good shape for the later stages of the tournament.

23:11 Local Time, 17:41 GMT, 23:11 IST: Kolkata Knight Riders end their 4-match losing streak on the back of a good all-round performance. Chasing 201, RCB came out all guns blazing scoring 30 runs off the first two overs. Nitish Rana quickly turned to spin and Suyash Sharma, the 19-year-old leggie, provided the crucial breakthrough in his very first over by removing the leading run-getter of this IPL - Faf du Plessis. He trapped Shahbaz Ahmed in his following over and Chakaravarthy nipped out Maxwell in the final over of the powerplay. For the first time in this season, RCB had lost three wickets inside six overs and they'd lost two of their in-form batsmen as well in the process. Lomror, who had a quiet tournament so far, took the aggressor's role as he and Kohli forged a half-ton partnership. KKR fought back as they removed both the set batters within a span of five deliveries. While Lomror fell to a short ball, a superb catch from Venkatesh Iyer ended Kohli's knock. Post that, the visitors kept chipping in with wickets and never allowed RCB back into the game. Earlier in the evening, Jason Roy scored a blazing fifty, the Knight Riders lost a bit of momentum but captain Rana made RCB pay dearly for those two drops. And then, Wiese and Rinku Singh applied the finishing touches to take their team's total to 200.

RCB vs KKR results in Bangalore since 2016:

2016 - KKR won by five wickets
2017 - KKR won by six wickets
2018 - KKR won by six wickets
2019 - KKR won by five wickets
2023 - KKR won by 21 runs

19.6

Vaibhav Arora to Vijaykumar Vyshak, 2 runs, 135.1kph, Vijaykumar Vyshak comes down the track, yorks himself and squeezes it through mid-wicket for a brace. KKR win by 21 runs!

19.5

Vaibhav Arora to Willey, leg byes, 1 run, very full outside off, Willey attempts the reverse-ramp and the ball rolls to the left of the keeper off the batsman's pad

Sash: @Pawan -- Harshal has an injury.

19.4

Vaibhav Arora to Willey, 2 runs, 138.2kph, low full toss well outside off, drilled to the left of deep cover where Rinku makes a sharp stop

19.3

Vaibhav Arora to Willey, FOUR, 133.6kph, full delivery, Willey swings it away through mid-wicket for a boundary

19.3

Vaibhav Arora to Vijaykumar Vyshak, 2 wides, 111.9kph, slower ball bumper, Vijaykumar Vyshak tries to upper-cut and misses. The keeper fails to stop it and the batters rotate strike. Wided for height

19.2

Vaibhav Arora to Willey, 1 run, full and wide of off, Willey tries to reverse ramp and the ball lobs up off the inner edge. Falls in the vacant square leg region

19.1

Vaibhav Arora to Vijaykumar Vyshak, 1 run, full delivery angled in, Vyshak looks to swing across the line and gets an inside edge onto hsi boot. The ball dribbles towards cover for the batters to take the single

Vaibhav Arora [1.0-0-10-0] is back into the attack

Equation: 35 runs | 6 balls.

18.6

Russell to Vijaykumar Vyshak, 1 run, 136.8kph, very full delivery, driven to mid-off and Wiese scores a direct hit at the bowler's end. The TV umpire has been disturbed and Vyshak is comfortably in. Russell finishes with 2/29!

Pawan: Harshal shouldn't have been traded off for Faf today. Might still not have made a difference.

18.5

Russell to Vijaykumar Vyshak, SIX, 138.7kph, it's high ... and ... just over the fielder! Full delivery angled in, Vijaykumar Vyshak clears his front leg and flogs it over deep mid-wicket. Beat the leaping fielder...

18.4

Russell to Vijaykumar Vyshak, no run, 138.4kph, pitched up outside off, Vyshak shuffles across a long way to scoop and misses

18.3

Russell to Willey, 1 run, 137.1kph, very full delivery, driven to long-on

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