Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), riding on opener Chris Lynn’s 62 and Robin Uthappa’s 36, with 5 balls to spare, at the M.Chinnaswamy stadium on Sunday.
The win, which came after two straight losses, took KKR to the fourth spot with e🀅ight points while RCB is 🍨at seventh spot with four points.
Chasing 176, the visitors got off to a perfect start as💝 Lynn and Sunil Narine (27) forged 59-run partnership in 7.1 overs before the West Indian d꧙eparted by Murugan Ashwin.
New 🐲batsman Uthappa and Lynn then played sensibly and punished the bad balls. The duo managed to take Kolkata past 100-run mark. B💎ut just when things seemed good in the middle, Uthappa was dismissed by Ashwin in the 13th over.
New batsman Nitish Rana (15), who was looking good at the crease, got🃏 re💎tired hurt.
All-rounder Andre Russel (0) and Dinesh Karthik (23) were also sent packing soon but at that time Lynn has already put his team on the front foot and then went on to comple♈te the proceed💜ing in the last over with Shubman Gill (5 not out).
For R✃CB, Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj took two wicke𒁏ts each.
Earlier, put into bat, Bangalore started on a▨ cautious note as openers Quinton de Kock (29 off 27) and Brendon McCullum (38 off 28) shared a 67-run partnership for the first wicket.
Later, skipper Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 68-run knock off 44 balls helped the home side to post a respectable total of 175/4.
For Kolkata, Russel was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3/31 while Kuldeep scalpe💎d a wicket for 20 runs.
Here’s how Twitter reacted to the RCB’s loss against KKR:
/♉/twitter.com/AlexHartley93/status/990661473906159617
As always it is only Virat Kohli who wants to do everything📖 to win the game for his side.
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS)
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Very Well Played & !! Congratulations on ✤the V📖ictory
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv)
Forget everything – match after match after match, gets his A game to the field. Not at all easy when the team isn’t really firing! You do feel sorry for Virat!
— RK (@RK_sports)
. can still qualify to the last four. Need to win at least six from the remaining seven!
Remember they had won seven consecutive games in 2011 (22 Apr to 14 May) after winning just one from their first four! Went on to reach final!
Time to— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman)
Fee bad for Kohli every time I see him speak at the post match presentation. Very strong words from him today. Team has to rea🎀lize one man cannot win you all the games, it has to be a collective effort.
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani)
Brilliant catch by Kohli, but in a lost cause at this stage. let down by bowling aga🦋in. And fielding below par too
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah)
Hey You.. Yes You.. listen :
Virat Kohli's Cover Drive is more beautiful than Your Crush.
— sudhanshu' (@whoshud)
RCB win or�📖� lose anushka getting trolled all the time its kind "Bakra" on twitter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👊👊
— PAPZZZ (@pappumaxcool)
RCB should change to
— Manya (@CSKian716)
Virat Kohli scoring runs and bowlers leaking runs is like Dad earns hard money and kids spending lavishly…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket)
Virat Kohli looks dejected. Gotta feel for 🔯him. Batted brilliantly again, played a much better team without AB and still the same story.
— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak)
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Anushka's reaction on kohli catch 😍 Waah dude is unbelievable 😂
— Akash 🇮🇳 (@ViratBomB)
People who troll & blame for defeats are the biggest losers ever. For god sake take out your frustration on players or elsewhere but not on someone’s famiꦬly�𒁏�😡😡😡
— Sumit Kadel (@SumitkadeI)
Mrs. Anushka Sharma waiting for RCB to win.( 203𓃲5)
— Everyday Quiz (@RealHistoryPicx)
Give Any Score To They'll Defend It, Give Any Score To They'll Lose It.
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja)
RCB's NRR is better than DD's but they're placed at No. 8
— Abhijeet ♞ (@TheYorkerBall)