KKR won after four consecutive losses – beat Bengaluru by 21 runs at home

RCB vs KKR: Kolkata Knight Riders have won their third win in the Indian Premier League-16. The team defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore by 21 runs at their home ground. Batting first after losing the toss, KKR scored 200 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. In reply, the Bangalore batsmen could only manage 179 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.

RCB wickets fell like this...

First: Second ball of the third over, Suyash Sharma bowled a googly on fuller length. Faf du Plessis was caught out at long on. He scored 17 runs.

Second: The fourth ball of the fifth over was bowled by Suyash Sharma fuller length. Shahbaz Ahmed becomes LBW. He scored 2 runs.

Third: Fifth ball of the sixth over, Varun Chakraborty bowled a fuller length on the off stump. Glenn Maxwell is caught out at long off. He scored 5 runs.

Fourth: On the third ball of the 12th over, Mahipal caught Russell on the ball of Varun Chakraborty.

Fifth: On the first ball of the 13th over, Virat Kohli caught Venkatesh Iyer on Russell's ball.

Sixth: Suyash Prabhudesai was run out on the 5th ball of the 15th over.

Seventh: On the 5th ball of the 17th over, Hasaranga caught Anukul Roy on Russell's ball.

Eighth: On the third ball of the 18th over, Dinesh Karthik caught Singh off the ball of Varun Chakraborty.

Kohli scored 49th half-century

Captain Virat Kohli scored the 49th half-century of his career. He played an inning of 57 runs off 37 balls. This is Virat Kohli's 5th half-century in the current season.

Bengaluru lost 3 wickets in Powerplay

Chasing the target of 201 runs, RCB got off to a brisk start by Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis. Both scored 33 runs in 14 balls. Du Plessis was caught out by Suyash Sharma. Virat Kohli handled the innings, but at the other end, Shahbaz Ahmed was dismissed for 2 and Glenn Maxwell for 5 runs. Although the team scored 58 runs for 3 wickets.

Roy's Fifty, Kolkata scored 200 runs

Batting first after losing the toss, KKR scored 200 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Jason Roy scored 56 off 29 balls, Captain Nitish Rana scored 48 off 21 balls, Venkatesh Iyer 31 off 26 balls and Narayan Jagadishan scored 27 off 29 balls. In the slog over, Rinku Singh scored 18 runs in 10 balls and David VJ scored 12 runs in 3 balls.

Vijaykumar Vaishak and Vanindu Hasaranga got 2-2 wickets from Bangalore.

Kolkata wickets fell like this

First: On the second ball of the 10th over, Vijaykumar Vaishak got Jagadishan caught by Villi.

Second: Jason Roy was bowled by Vijaykumar Vaishak on the last ball of the 10th over.

Third: On the second ball of the 18th over, Hasaranga got captain Nitish Rana caught by Vaishak.

Fourth: On the fourth ball of the 18th over, Hasaranga got Venkatesh caught by Maxwell.

Fifth: Siraj bowled Russell on the last ball of the 19th over.

80 run partnership in Nitish-Iyer

Vijay Kumar Vaishakh pushed Kolkata to the backfoot by taking 2 wickets, but from here captain Nitish Rana and Venkatesh Iyer partnered to take the team past 150. Both shared an 80-run partnership off 44 balls. This partnership broke when Rana got out after scoring 48 runs in 21 balls.

83-run partnership between Jagdishan-Roy

The openers shared a half-century partnership for Kolkata. The pair of Narayan Jagadishan and Jason Roy added 83 runs off 56 balls. This partnership was broken by Vijaykumar Vaishak by dismissing Jagdishan.

KKR's fast start in Powerplay

Electing to bat first after losing the toss, Jason Roy got off to a brisk start for Kolkata Knight Riders. Narayan Jagdishan also supported him very well. Both did not lose any wicket in the powerplay and took the team's score to 66 runs.

Jason Roy scored his fourth half-century

Jason Roy completed his half-century off 22 balls. This is Roy's second half-century in the current season. Talking about overall career, this is his fourth fifty.

A change in kolkata

Kolkata has made a change in the playing-11 for this match. Vaibhav Arora has been given a chance in place of Kulwant Khijrolia in the team.

Playing-11 of both the teams...

Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana (Captain), Narayan Jagadishan, Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Rinku Singh, David VJ, Vaibhav Arora, Umesh Yadav and Varun Chakravarthy.

Impact Players: Mandeep Singh, Liton Das, Anukul Roy, Suyash Sharma and Kulwant Khejroliya.

Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (captain), Mahipal Lomror, Glenn Maxwell, Shahbaz Ahmed, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Suyash Prabhudesai, Vanindu Hasaranga, Vijaykumar Vaishak, Mohammed Siraj, David Willey and Harshal Patel.

Impact Players: Faf du Plessis, Finn Allan, Karn Sharma, Akashdeep and Anuj Rawat.