Sharjah. KKR continues to perform well in IPL 2021. The team defeated RCB by 4 wickets against Eliminator. With this, the team of RCB, captained by Virat Kohli, was out of the tournament. Kohli had already announced that he would step down from the captaincy of the team after the season. That is, Kohli’s captaincy career ended without an IPL trophy. Till now he has not been able to win the IPL trophy even as a player. Playing first in the match, RCB scored 138 runs for 7 wickets. Off-spinner Sunil Narine took 4 wickets. KKR achieved the target in 19.4 overs for 6 wickets. The team will now take on Delhi Capitals in Qualifier-2 on October 13.
Shubman Gill (29) and Venkatesh Iyer (26) gave a good start to KKR chasing the target. Both added 41 runs for the first wicket. Gill hit 4 fours in 18 balls and was dismissed by Harshal Patel. After this, Rahul Tripathi (6) got off to a good start by hitting a four. But leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal walked him in his first over.
Narine made a comeback with 3 sixes in 3 balls
Harshal Patel gave great success to the team by dismissing Venkatesh Iyer in the 11th over of the match. With this, he equaled Dwayne Bravo’s highest 32 wickets in a season. Sunil Narine, who landed after the fall of 3 wickets, had almost thrown RCB out of the match by hitting 3 consecutive sixes in the third, fourth and fifth balls of the 12th over. Danian Christian scored 22 runs in the over. After this Nitish Rana became the second victim of Chahal by scoring 23 runs. The team lost the fourth wicket on the score of 110 runs.
Siraj took 2 wickets in an over
Narine was bowled by Siraj after scoring 26 runs. The team lost the 5th wicket on the score of 125 runs. In the 18th over itself, Siraj gave the sixth blow to KKR in the form of Dinesh Karthik (10). KKR had to score 12 runs to win in the last 2 overs. In the 19th over, left-arm fast bowler George Garten conceded just 5 runs. 7 runs were to be scored in the last over. Shakib hit a four on Christian on the first ball of the 20th over. Took a run off the second ball. Morgan took a run on the third ball. Shakib gave victory by taking one run on the fourth ball. Eoin Morgan returned with an unbeaten 5 and Shakib Al Hasan scored an unbeaten 9.
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RCB team scattered after a good start
Earlier, after winning the toss, the team of RCB, who came out to play first, got scattered after a good start. The team’s score was 69 runs for one wicket at one time. But after that the team faltered. The team could reach only 138 runs for 7 wickets. Captain Virat Kohli scored the highest 39 runs. Apart from this, Devdutt Padikkal also scored 21 runs. AB de Villiers 11 and Glenn Maxwell could only make 15 runs. For KKR, off-spinner Sunil Narine took 4 wickets for 21 runs in 4 overs. Lockie Ferguson got 2 wickets.
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