Dinesh Karthik smashed a six and a four off the first two balls of the last over to take KKR home. With 17 required off two overs. Harshal Patel (10 off 6) and Dinesh Karthik’s (14 off 7) cameo helped KKR win a low-scoring thriller.
Royal Challengers Bangalore’s innings began with Umesh Yadav and Tim Southee troubling the batsmen. RCB lost their three wickets in the powerplay and looked uncomfortable throughout the innings. In the first over, Umesh Yadav gave KKR their dream start by picking the wicket of youngster Anuj Rawat. Yadav went on to bag the crucial wicket of Virat Kohli, whereas Tim Southee took the wicket of captain Faf du Plessis. The match seemed to go out of RCB’s hand before David Willey (18), Sherfane Rutherford (28), and Shahbaz Ahmed (27) stayed in the middle and tried a built a partnership.
Tim Southee (3/20), Umesh Yadav(2/16), Sunil Narine (1/12), and Varun Chakravarthy (1/33) again bought KKR in the game and made this match a thriller with 17 required off the last two overs.
On Tuesday, Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and decided to field first. The decision to field first went amazingly well for RCB as they successfully restricted KKR at 128 runs. Wanindu Hasaranga blew off KKR’s batting line-up with his quick deliveries. He ended his spell at a bowling figure of 4/20. Andre Russell (25 off 18) was the highest run-scorer for KKR. At the moment, KKR was even struggling to reach a total of 120 runs. All thanks to Umesh Yadav’s 18 runs cameo, which helped KKR get a respectable score of 128 runs.
Akash Deep gave away too many runs but took three crucial wickets of Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, and Umesh Yadav. Harshal Patel (2 wickets) and Mohammed Siraj (2 wickets) were the other bowlers to get wickets.
