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Updated : Apr 21, 2024, 07:40 PM IST
In the 36th match of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders will face Royal Challengers Bengaluru at Kolkata's Eden Gardens at 3:30 PM IST. Kolkata Knight Riders stand second in the points table with four wins in six matches. Meanwhile, Royal Challengers Bengaluru are at the bottom, with only one win from seven games.
In their recent games, Kolkata lost to Rajasthan Royals despite Sunil Narine's 109 runs and 2 wickets. On the other hand, Royal Challengers Bengaluru lost to Sunrisers Hyderabad by 25 runs, with Faf du Plessis scoring 62 and Dinesh Karthik hitting 83.
In head-to-head encounters, Kolkata has won 20 out of 34 matches against Royal Challengers Bengaluru's 14 wins.
Harshit Rana strikes with his slower ball, dismissing Prabhudessai caught at long on. Karn Sharma comes in, scoring a single. Karthik struggles to time a pull shot off another slower ball, adding one run. Karn takes a single, and Karthik retains strike with a single off the last ball.
In Chakaravarthy's final over, Prabhudessai misses his sweep, leading to a review by KKR, but there's no spike on UltraEdge, so KKR loses their review. However, Prabhudessai bounces back, hitting a six on the next ball with a hook shot over fine leg.
Narine to Jacks, punches to long on for one run. SIX! Patidar makes room and clears the long on fence. Patidar jabs the fourth delivery to deep mid wicket for another run. SIX more! A length ball there for the grabs and Patidar muscles it over mid wicket. He gets to fifty off 22 balls.
Narine continues the spin attack. Two dots to begin with. FOUR!!! Jacks sweeps it through square leg for a boundary. A leg-by single follows as it would have been a out but KKR doesn’t review it. Two singles next to end the over.
Kohli starts off in style, smacks Harshit Rana’s first delivery through forward square leg for a FOUR!!!!! A single and a dot ball follows. A single next as du Plessis gets on strike. Another single follows. A short one next that goes for a dot. SIX!!!! Kohli pulls it over backward square for a maximum.
Karn Sharma back into the attack. Shreyas drives the first delivery to covers, but a misfield by Faf du Plessis allows a single. Russell tries a slog sweep but does not connect; one run only. FOUR! Shreyas goes for a switch hit and manages to lift it over point. One run to long on on the last delivery.
Green again. Rinku on strike. Starts with a wide. A single to deep square on the first legal delivery. Shreyas misses a pull shot on a bouncer and RCB ponders a review for a moment but decides against it. FOUR! On his pads and Shreyas casually lifts it over mid wicket. A risky single to mid off to finish.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Virat Kohli, Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Cameron Green, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Karn Sharma, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Mohammed Siraj
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana
Royal Challengers Bengaluru win the toss and opt to bowl.
Shreyas Iyer - Last afternoon game here, we know how the wicket plays, we would have loved to bowl as well. It's stiflingly hot and we'll look to make them as tired as possible. We've tried to keep things simple, it's not about how you start, it's about how you end, just stick to the basics. We are playing the same team. It's important to assess the conditions, execute our plans, then it'll go in our favour
Faf du Plessis - We will chase. This is probably a chasing ground, always has been. I'm a fan of abetting first when it'[s really hot, but the temperature did drop after an hour or so yesterday, unlike in Mumbai or Chennai where it stays very hot. The batting is so strong that a general score or 60-70 isn't considered great. We have three changes - Green and Siraj come back, so does Mayank Dagar. We know if we do a few things back, the momentum can be back and we do have the firepower.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru Squad: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Will Jacks, Rajat Patidar, Saurav Chauhan, Dinesh Karthik(w), Mahipal Lomror, Anuj Rawat, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Reece Topley, Lockie Ferguson, Yash Dayal, Suyash Prabhudessai, Swapnil Singh, Mohammed Siraj, Karn Sharma, Glenn Maxwell, Akash Deep, Rajan Kumar, Tom Curran, Mayank Dagar, Alzarri Joseph, Cameron Green, Manoj Bhandage, Himanshu Sharma
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey, Anukul Roy, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Allah Ghazanfar, Sakib Hussain, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat, Dushmantha Chameera