IPL 2022, RCB vs KKR Live Score: Bangalore beat Kolkata by 3 wickets in low-scoring thriller

The sixth match of the IPL was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at the DY Patil Stadium in Mumbai. Bengaluru won the low scoring match, but in the last over. Batting first, KKR had set a target of 129 in front of RCB.

Tim Southee and Umesh bowled well for KKR to get the team back in the match. Southee took 3 and Umesh took 2 wickets. Bangalore's top order was shattered, but Shahbaz and Rutherford shared a 39-run partnership in the middle order to cross the score 100. After this Dinesh Karthik and Harshal Patel took the team to victory.

RCB top order piled up against Umesh's swing

Umesh Yadav, who became the player of the match against CSK in the last match, maintained his momentum in this match as well. Umesh dismissed Anuj Rawat (0) and former RCB captain Virat Kohli (12) in the first two overs. Anuj and Kohli were caught by wicketkeeper Sheldon Jackson.

Hasranga sets color for Bengaluru

Wanindu Hasaranga took 4 wickets while bowling amazingly. He dismissed KKR captain Shreyas Iyer (13), Sunil Narine (12), Sheldon Jackson (0) and Tim Southee (1). He leads the tournament with 5 wickets and now holds the Purple Cap. In the mega auction, Hasranga was bought by RCB for 10.75 crores.

Short but powerful innings from Russell

On the fifth ball of the 11th over, Andre Russell hit a six of 94 meters in the direction of a cow-corner against Hasaranga, who took 3 wickets in the match. Russell was dismissed by Harshal Patel by hitting 3 sixes in his innings. Russell scored 25 runs in his 400th T20I match.

Bengaluru's last wicket saved the shame

The last wicket partnership was lost by KKR on their 9th score of 101 runs. After that, Umesh Yadav and Varun Chakraborty added 27 runs in 26 balls for the last wicket to take Kolkata to a respectable score. This partnership was broken by Akash Deep by dismissing Umesh (18). Varun remained unbeaten on 10 runs.

Special fielding for Kolkata openers

RCB captain Faf du Plessis applied special fielding to put pressure on Venkatesh Iyer and Ajinkya Rahane in the match. For Iyer, he kept a fielder at deep point and deep square leg. Venkatesh was dismissed for 10 runs in 14 balls off Akash Deep in the third over. His catch was caught by short midwicket bowler Akash. Rahane also lost his wicket in the very next over after scoring 9 runs in 10 balls. Ajinkya's wicket was taken by Mohammad Siraj and caught by Shahbaz Ahmed on deep square leg fielder.

Willie reminds Kapil

In the sixth over of Kolkata's innings, David Willey, running behind short fine leg, caught a brilliant catch of Nitish Rana. Before Willie, in the fourth match of the same tournament, Gujarat Titans' Shubman Gill had also caught almost the same catch against Lucknow Super Giants while running 31 meters behind. Seeing the catches of Willie and Gill, the fans remembered the sight of Kapil Dev taking a match-changing catch in the 1983 World Cup final.