IPL 2023 Match 36: Roy and Rana help Kolkata revive IPL campaign beating RCB by 21 runs

Jason Roy 56 (29) and Nitish Rana 48 (21) gave KKR a great platform from which they were able to beat RCB in convincing style by 21 runs, at the M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru today.

Match Summary

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders, Match 36

Royal Challengers Bangalore 179/8 (20 ov)

Kolkata Knight Riders 200/5 (20 ov)

Result - Kolkata Knight Riders won by 21 runs

SCORECARD

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Match Analysis

Jason Roy and skipper Nitish Rana helped Kolkata Knight Riders revive their faltering Indian Premier League campaign with a convincing 21-run win over Royal Challengers Bangalore on Wednesday.

Roy's 56 -- his second successive half-century -- and a 21-ball 48 by Rana guided two-time champions Kolkata to 200-5 after they were put in to bat first in Bengaluru.

Leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy took 3-27 as Kolkata's bowlers restricted Bangalore to 179-8, snapping their four-match losing streak in the tournament.

Kolkata climbed a spot to seventh in the 10-team table with the money-spinning league now past the midway stage and teams jostling for four play-off places.

Venkatesh Iyer pulled off a brilliant low catch in the outfield to dismiss Virat Kohli for 54 and silence the home crowd.

Kohli, who led Bangalore for a third straight game with regular captain Faf du Plessis playing as an impact sub due to a rib injury, had attempted to get the chase going in his 37-ball knock.

Bangalore's batting faltered after the in-form Du Plessis fell for 17 following two sixes and Australian big-hitter Glenn Maxwell went for five.

Kolkata set a daunting target as Roy, who smashed five sixes in his 29-ball blitz, put on an opening stand of 83 with Narayan Jagadeesan (27).

The two departed in the same over only for Rana and Iyer (31) to form a another destructive partnership of 80 for the third wicket.

Sri Lanka's Wanindu Hasaranga sent back the left-handed duo of Rana and Iyer in the 18th over as he returned figures of 2-24.

But Bangalore's attempt to stem the flow of runs failed as Rinku Singh clubbed an unbeaten 18 off 10 balls and Namibia's David Wiese made 12 off just three deliveries.

 

 

Match Stats

Kolkata Knight Riders Fall of wickets: 1-83 (Narayan Jagadeesan - 9.2 ov), 2-88 (Jason Roy - 9.6 ov), 3-168 (Nitish Rana - 17.2 ov), 4-169 (Venkatesh Iyer - 17.4 ov), 5-185 (Andre Russell - 18.6 ov)

Royal Challengers Bangalore Fall of wickets: 1-31 (Faf du Plessis - 2.2 ov), 2-51 (Shahbaz Ahmed - 4.4 ov), 3-58 (Glenn Maxwell - 5.5 ov), 4-113 (Mahipal Lomror - 11.3 ov), 5-115 (Virat Kohli - 12.1 ov), 6-137 (Suyash Prabhudessai - 14.5 ov), 7-152 (Wanindu Hasaranga - 16.5 ov), 8-154 (Dinesh Karthik - 17.3 ov)

Playing XIs

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli(C), Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik(WK), Suyash Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Mohammed Siraj

Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer, Narayan Jagadeesan(WK), Jason Roy, Nitish Rana(C), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakravarthy

 

Match Details:

Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2023 15:00

Venue: M.Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bengaluru

Toss: Royal Challengers Bangalore elected to bowl