MAN OF THE MATCH: Wanindu Hasaranga
FOURS AWARD: David Willey
FASTEST DELIVERY OF THE MATCH: Akash Deep
MOST VALUABLE ASSET OF THE MATCH: Wanindu Hasaranga
POWERPLAYER OF THE MATCH: Umesh Yadav
SIXES AWARD: Andre Russell
GAMECHANGER OF THE MATCH: Wanindu Hasaranga
SUPER STRIKER OF THE MATCH: Umesh Yadav
WHAT THEY SAID:
Wanindu Hasaranga: Disappointed that I came out after I hit
the boundry. But it was a team match and the team won, so I was happy. It was
hard with the dew. Neymar is my favorite football player, so I copied his
celebration.
Faf du Plessis: Very happy. Small margins in the game are
very important for a start. We just try to be positive. Very good bowling of
their seams. The ball used to be, but now it has a seam and a bouncer. Running
is never a problem. You just have to have goals in hand. DK is because it is
close to MS Dhoni when the ice is cold.
Shreyas Iyer: I really think this game is exciting. In the
second round, I told my children that this game could explain our behaviour in
the coming days. The way we fight reflects our mentality. He proudly got it in
the end. In the end, I decided to go with Venky because he has experience with
bowling on an international level.
RCB 132/7 in 19.2 overs: KKR must mix Russell. There was no
other way to go. Karthik attacks. DK pulled the short ball in glory for six.
Russell fell to the ground. DUWA. FILE. KASULATAN DK goes to the city center.
It's four.
RCB 122/7 at 19 overs: Venkatesh in the bowl in his first,
meaning Russell probably wanted to. WHAT. JUST. HAPPENED. KKR was unable to use
the terrible RCB mix. Both bats ended up at the same top, but KKR could not
influence the run out. Harshal took advantage of Venkatesh's run and shook the
ball over the goalkeeper's head at the edge of the lime. Two swings and misses
from Harshal. Nerves ... nerves ... Four in the last van and the RCB dugout was
already standing. Royal Challengers Bangalore needs 7 6-ball rides.
RCB 112/7 in 18 overs: Southee starts wide. Jackson has just
pulled off the mother of blinders! The inner twist, there's a big deflection,
and it's good for Jackson to sink to the bottom and hit. Rutherford left.
Hasaranga overcame one point and scored four points. Hasaranga holes out to
Russell. MADNESS!
RCB 105/5 at 17 overs: Narine has to pull something very
special to pull KKR back into the game. They saw Rutherford and Karthik finish,
so they picked only four singles.
RCB 101/5 at 16 overs: Chakravarthy in a bowl out.
Rutherford tried to release the return whip, but failed twice. West India has a
change of gloves. The chakravarthas roll over and Shahbaz throws the full court.
Nalibog! Chakravarthy laughed for the last time as he took Shahbaz from the
right to help Jackson make a mess in the trees. DK introduced.
RCB 93/4 in 15 overs: Southee starts wide. Shahbaz continued
to focus on the short border on the side of his leg, but was defeated on
several consecutive occasions. KKR demands arrest. Jackson and Southee seem
convinced. But Snickometer apparently disagrees. Strategic stop.
RCB 89/4 at 14 overs: In the end, Shreyas decided to go with
Umesh. Rutherford's shot hit only Rinka after the raid.
RCB 85/4 at 13 overs: Russell to bowl. There was a long
discussion with Narine before her brand was reached. Oops! He bends a large
sphere to get a free hit. The sound of the bat was enough for people to know
where he landed! Six from Shahbaz. He brought the short van to the glory of
another six. Shahbaz has so far registered 187.
RCB 70/4 in 12 overs: Shahbaz hit the entire single pitch.
When Rutherford registered at the other frontier, Russell made an uprising in
the depths.
RCB 62/4 in 11 overs: Narine resume. There is a link to the
run. However, Willey's bat was found when Jackson crashed into the shed. Willey
changed his gloves and it didn't work out because he got right into Rana's
hands in the middle of the field.
RCB 59/3 at 10 overs: Willey picked up a short ball and the
hole was difficult, increasing the move in the deep middle goal. The pressure
reached Chakravarthy, who reached his leg. There was a plea for stomping,
though Willey's foot was always familiar.
RCB 53/3 in 9 overs: Only one of these Narine on top, while
Rutherford pushed one to the back point. Time for a strategic break.
RCB 52/3 in 8 overs: Medium tracker from Chakravarthy cuts away
through the gaps. The ball slides on the outer court with dew. Rutherford sent
Chakravarthy for a huge six.
RCB 40/3 in 7 overs: Narine replaces Umesh with two left-handers
at the crease. It will be interesting to watch Narine calculate the dew. The
four runs are from the top.
RCB 36/3 in 6 overs: Russell in the bowl in his first.
Willey started with a fast single. Five wides; bad all-round bowling from the
West Indies. More bounce and miss all the batter and Jackson. Willey stuck the
hole in the tip and hid it in style.
RCB 25/3 in 5 overs: Willey did not intend to take any
insufficient risk against Umesh. Just one of them, because the pressure in
Bangalore was still growing.
RCB 24/3 in 4 overs: Wide slide in the Southee area. His
last ball will go in a few rides.
RCB 22/3 in 3 overs: Umesh caught a big fish! Kohli fished
out of the stump and gave him the nickname Jackson. It all happened here in
Navi Mumbai ... Four byes, super-fast and bounces on offer.
RCB 17/2 in 2 overs: Kohli used his legs to take three runs
by pushing the short van to the point. The excessive width offered by Southee
and du Plessis shot it in the middle of the four. du Plessis is gone, in the
good will of the most subtle releases! The main edge brings Rahane to the back
end.
RCB 10/1 in 1 over: du Plessis almost ends up chopping the very first ball onto the sticks. Umesh strikes! An outside edge carries to Jackson. Rawat goes for 0. Kohli announces himself by stroking Umesh's loosener through the covers. And another... Back-to-back boundaries for the former skipper. du Plessis to face Umesh first up. Rawat is at the non-striker's end.
How can KKR win vs RCB?
KKR needs to score in PowerPlay early because RCB bats are
too deep. However, Rosa did not make life easier for the knights. It was a long
task with hits like du Plessis, Kohli, Karthik, Rutherford in the lineup. KKR
defended 131 against RCB in 2017.
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS INNINGS
KKR 128 in 18.5 overs: Akash Deep missed his height and
Umesh Yadav bombed the entire throw from the ground. Hasaranga started again in
a dense action ... the rotation of the ball missed him in depth. Four more.
York cleaned it up! Umesh links.
KKR 118/9 in 18 overs: Valuable four rides for KKR because
the test yorker got a big, thick outer edge from Chakravarthy's edge so he
could run away from the ropes. Hasaranga's remarkable foul in the back added
another four runs to the KKR score.
KKR 110/9 in 17 overs: Umesh gets a lucky boundary as a
thick inside edge rolls down to short fine.
KKR 104/9 in 16 overs: Harshal finally agrees to the first
ball in his third over. He mixed it well to keep Chakravarthy on the other
side. The RCB surprisingly went high to review LBW's appeal. It clearly hit the
center of Varun's bat.
KKR 101/9 in 15 overs: Hasaranga, the current holder of the
Purple Cap, added when Southee left du Plessis for a long time!
KKR 99/8 on 14 innings: Harshal starts with a short ball. He
was hit! Russell was upset and was gone. That's all, but the end. DK won't miss
these sitters for anything. Another wicket maiden!
KKR 99/7 at 13 overs: Here's something KKR will keep.
Russell knelt on one knee and benefited again from the shorter frontier. Six!
Shahbaz has given him enough width again and has been punished. Down the
ground... It is a maximum.
KKR 83/7 in 12 overs: Harshal, into the attack, gets
Billings to miscue the pull straight into the hands of Kohli. A wicket maiden.
KKR 83/6 in 11 overs: Hasaranga on a hattrick. Billings
defends and it is a dot. Russell waits for the slot ball... and off he goes.
The ball has landed in the other hemisphere. 94m long over midwicket!
KKR 76/6 in 10 overs: Harshal puts in a sliding effort
to deny Billings a boundary at third man. A couple of byes as DK leaps but
misses the bouncer from Siraj. Russell, playing his 400th T20 match, gets off
the mark with a boundary.
KKR 67/6 in 9 overs: Billings clobbers it square of the
wicket and out of the park. Hasaranga gets rid of Narine - gets the ball
to leave the Trinidadian power-hitter who ends up lobbing this into the palms
of Akash Deep. The strategic timeout has been taken. Castled!
Jackson, looking to go for the expansive drive, departs for a golden duck.
KKR 58/4 in 8 overs: The classic Narine shot! Four to
mid-off off a length ball from Akash Deep. The next ball is a maximum. This was
dug in short and Narine goes for a wild swing. The top-edge disappears over the
head of the 'keeper.
KKR 46/4 in 7 overs: Spin time as Hasaranga comes into
the attack. Shreyas on strike. Takes a single and gives the strike to
left-hander Narine. Narine vs Hasaranga will be an interesting matchup. But
it's Shreyas who has to take the walk back to the dressing room. KKR in
disarray. Billings is in at No. 6 and there's a loud appeal for lbw first
ball. Not given. Just 2 runs and a wicket off Hasaranga's first over.
KKR 44/3 in 6 overs: Nitish Rana comes to the crease.
He's off the mark with a maximum off Akash Deep. Akash oversteps and concedes a
free hit. Rana cracks one past deep backward point for four. David Willey
takes a blinder as Akash gets rid of Rana now. Narine to play floater in
the middle order. 12 runs and a wicket from the over.
KKR 32/2 in 5 overs: Siraj is back into the attack.
Iyer finds a boundary to fine leg. Gone! Rahane perishes now. RCB on
the charge here. End of a good over. 7 runs and a wicket.
KKR 25/1 in 4 overs: Akash Deep gets the breakthrough off
the very first ball. The Bengal pacer cramps Venkatesh for space, who ends up
ballooning a top-edge back to the bowler. Shreyas walks in and gets a
boundary off the very first ball. This was bowled full and outside off and
Shreyas did well to cream it through cover-point. Rahane ends the over, picking
a boundary down the third man region.
KKR 14/0 in 3 overs: It'll take some time for KKR to
adapt to the conditions; an advantage for RCB which had played its first game
on this ground. The ball thuds into the pad, there is a soft appeal from Willey
but the umpire isn't interested. There is an attempt to run Venkatesh out as
well off the same delivery but Willey couldn't nail the direct hit at the
non-striker's end.
KKR 10/0 in 2 overs: Siraj has been welcomed into the
attack by Venkatesh with a boundary through point. Almost snuck through, this
one... A massive bottom-edge sticks to Venkatesh's pad flap before rolling past
the off stump.
KKR 4/0 in 1 over: A nod from Rahane sees the pair pick
up a quick single to start proceedings. Venkatesh gets a couple to get going,
working the ball away towards short fine.
Umpires Jayaraman Madanagopal and Navdeep Singh enter the field of play. du Plessis has some final words for his boys at the RCB huddle. Venkatesh and Rahane to open for KKR. Willey will be bowling the first over. The countdown begins...
PLAYING XI
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Faf du Plessis (c), Anuj
Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahbaz Ahmed,
Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj
Kolkata Knight Riders: Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer,
Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer (c), Sam Billings, Sheldon Jackson (wk), Andre
Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
WHAT THE CAPTAINS SAID:
Faf du Plessis: No surprises... we are gonna bowl. Not
an expert but the pitch still seems a bit tacky. We are going with the same XI.
Shreyas Iyer: I would have loved to bowl as well as the dew plays a big role. It's going to be a test for us to come in and bat and ensure we get a good total. Tim Southee is coming in for Mavi. The management decided to go with experience.
MATCH PREVIEW
Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB)
and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) head into Wednesday’s Indian Premier
League (IPL) fixture on the back of contrasting results.
While KKR, led by Shreyas Iyer, defeated
Chennai Super Kings in its opening game, RCB suffered a five-wicket
defeat against Punjab Kings, despite scoring 205.
But at the DY Patil Stadium, RCB will
rely on captain Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli to
bounce back. Du Plessis slammed a 57-ball-88 against Punjab,
while Kohli scored 41. Against KKR, they will need to
give RCB a head start.
KKR ticked all the boxes against CSK.
While Ajinkya Rahane had a successful outing with a solid 44,
his opening partner Venkatesh Iyer failed to get going.
Against a star-studded RCB, KKR needs to
ensure that it gets off to a steady start. Skipper Shreyas, Sam Billings,
Andre Russell and Sheldon Jackson will need to shoulder responsibility in the
middle-order.