In the 36th match of IPL 2023, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs. In response to the target of 201 runs from KKR, RCB's team could only manage 179 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. Virat Kohli scored the highest 54 runs. Varun Chakraborty got 3 wickets.
RCB got off to a great start chasing the target. Faf du Plessis and Kohli added 31 runs for the first wicket. After this wickets kept falling at regular intervals. However, a partnership was forged between Kohli and Mahilapal Lomror. Meanwhile, Kohli completed his fifth fifty of this season. Lomror scored 34 runs.
Spinners fire
Maxwell and Shahbaz failed to play big innings. Dinesh Karthik scored 22 runs off 18 balls. Suyash Prabhudesai was once again unlucky and got run out. Hasaranga scored five runs. In bowling for KKR, Varun Chakraborty took three wickets, and Suyash Sharma and Andre Russell took two wickets each.
Excellent innings from Jason Roy and Rana
Earlier, batting after losing the toss, KKR scored 200 runs for the loss of 5 wickets. Jason Roy made 50 off 22 balls. Jagdishan scored 27 runs. Venkatesh Iyer contributed 31 runs. Nitish Rana got two lives in the match. After this, Rana scored 48 runs in 21 balls. Rinku Singh scored 18 and David Visa scored 12 off 3 balls. Russell got out after scoring 1 run. Hasaranga and Vijaykumar Vaishakh got two wickets each. One wicket remained in the name of Siraj.
