RCB vs KKR: Kolkata Knight Riders return to winning track, Kohli's 5th half-century goes in vain..

After Jason Roy's second consecutive half-century and captain Nitish Rana's flamboyant 48, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs based on a brilliant performance by the bowlers in IPL 2023 (IPL 2023). Recorded the third victory. Chasing the target of 201 runs set by KKR, the RCB team could score 179 runs for 8 wickets. This is RCB's fourth defeat in 8 matches. KKR is destined to win after the last 4 defeats. RCB has got a defeat after the last two wins. Virat Kohli scored his 5th half-century in this IPL. But Kohli's Pachasa did not work for the team.

Chasing the target, RCB lost the wicket of their captain Faf Duplesey at a score of 31. Duplessy was dismissed after scoring 17 runs. RCB got a second blow on the score of 51. Suyyash Sharma sent Shahbaz Ahmed out of LBWA to the pavilion. Glenn Maxwell could not do anything special and after scoring 5 runs in 4 balls, he fell victim to Varun Chakraborty. After this, Mahipal Lomror and Virat Kohli took RCB's score beyond 100.

Lomror was dismissed after scoring 34 runs in 18 balls. Virat Kohli, looking in excellent rhythm, scored his fifth half-century in the current season. He scored a half-century in 33 balls, while he returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 54 runs in 37 balls. Suyash Prabhudesai was run out after scoring 10 runs. Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets from KKR while Suyash Sharma and Andre Russell took 2-2 wickets.

KKR scored 200 runs for 5 wickets
Earlier, after Jason Roy's half-century, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 200 runs for 5 wickets with the flamboyant innings of captain Nitish Rana. Roy scored 56 runs in 29 balls with five sixes and four fours, while Rana (48 runs in 21 balls, four sixes, three fours) batted furiously in the death overs, which helped the team reach big scores. For RCB, Vanindu Hasaranga and Vijaykumar Visakh took two wickets each.

Virat won the toss and invited KKR to bat.
RCB captain Virat Kohli won the toss and invited the Knight Riders to bat first, after which Roy and Jagadishan got the team off to a good start. After hitting two fours in the first over of Mohammad Siraj (33/1), Roy also hit a four in his next over. Jagadishan also opened the account with a four on David Willey and then in his next over, he made the ball see the boundary twice. Roy welcomed Shahbaz Ahmed with four sixes so that the Knight Riders scored 66 runs without losing a wicket in the power play. Roy completed his second consecutive half-century in just 22 balls with one run off Visakh.