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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by four wickets to knock out the Virat Kohli-led side from the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021.
Chasing a paltry target of 139, the match went down to the wire, where the Knight Riders held their ner🐈ves and won the contest.
Shubman Gill (26), Venkatesh Iyer (26) and Sunil Narine (26) made valuable contributions to help their side book a place in Qualifier 2. Nitish Rana also chipped in with a crucial 23 off 25 balls.
Earlier, the Challengers posted 138/7 in their allotted 20 overs. Captain Virat Kohli top-scored with 39 off 33 balls, with the help of five bounಞdaries.
Apart from Kohli, no other batter was able to stay long enough to contribute well. Opener Devdutt Padikkal was the second-highest scorer for RCB with♔ 21 from 18 deliveries.
For the Knight Riders, Narine bowled magnificently well to restrict RCB at a below-par score. Narine picked up four wickets for 21 runs in his quota of 4 overs. The Caribbean sent back Kohli, Srikar Bharat (9), Glenn Maxwell (15), and AB de Villiers (11).
Here is how Twitter reacted:
End of an era. Virat Kohli thank yo🔥u for everything skip.
— Chloe-Amanda Bailey (@ChloeAmandaB)
Change of venue, changed the way 🍌they played cricket in the second half. Special victory by
— Irfan Pathan (@IrfanPathan)
Kamaal
Misaal
Bemisaal— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
Sunil Narine tonight.
— Wasim Jaffer (@WasimJaffer14)
Har kisi ko muqammal jahan nahi milta…
Well tried skipper
KKR should be pr💮oud of the fightback in the UAE leg.— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh)
The Knights🧔 come up trumps in the battle of nerves 💪
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
Royal Challengers Bangalore beco♚mes the first team to lose the eliminator in 2♊ consecutive IPL seasons.
— Kausthub Gudipati (@kaustats)
That’s the last of Virat as 𒐪IPL captain. Never to win a title
— Vikrant Gupta (@vikrantgupta73)
End of Virat Kohli the capta💎in in IPL history, had tough times but always pulled out something special. The memorable moment is qualifying for the final of 2016 IPL.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)