2240dThe Report by Sreshth Shah

Sunil Narine ambushes Royal Challengers again

The Trinidadian smashed a 17-ball half-century to kickstart Knight Riders' chase after Nitish Rana's part-time offspin took out AB de Villiers and Virat Kohli to help restrict RCB to 176

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

SP Narine
SP Narine
50(19) 4x4 - 5x6
Control %57%
  • Productive Shot
  • off drive
  • 11 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
0 0 0 0 14 12 14 10
AB de Villiers
AB de Villiers
44(23) 1x4 - 5x6
Control %56%
  • Productive Shot
  • cover drive
  • 13 runs
  • 0x4 - 2x6
0 1 11 1 9 6 7 9

Best performances - Bowlers

CR Woakes
CR Woakes
O4
M0
R36
W3
Eco9
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
N Rana
N Rana
O1
M0
R11
W2
Eco11
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

Kolkata Knight Riders , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.30, Interval 21.30-21.50, Second Session 21.50- 23.20

Match days

08 April 2018 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0

Commentator: Nikhil Kalro

11.38pm Clinical from Kolkata Knight Riders. They first kept RCB to a total that was about 10 runs below par, then they came out and aced their chase, led by Sunil Narine's stunning fifty, the joint fourth-fastest in IPL history. There were cameos right through that innings, Dinesh Karthik and Nitish Rana made nice contributions to carry KKR home on a favourable chasing ground.

RCB have not started very well, their bowlers were taken apart by KKR's batsmen right through. They'll find a way to fight back soon.

That's all the action from the IPL, but head over to ESPN.in to stay up to date with the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. India's gold rush continued on Sunday, including a historic gold medal from the women's table tennis team.

Presentation time.

Sunil Narine is the Man of the Match: "It's good to get the ball rolling right away. I wouldn't see myself as an opening batsman. That's the role I get to play, if I get out the first ball, it's okay."

Dinesh Karthik: "Good to get off to a good start. If AB and Kohli went till the end, it would have been tough, but we got lucky. We all play for the crowd. Love to play for a team like this and a crowd like this."

Virat Kohli: "We were 15 short with the bat, myself included. I played too many dot balls. Me and AB getting out in two balls to a part-timer was game changing as well. We made a good game out of it. Quite a few positives. Difficult for the spinners to bowl on."

18.5
4
Khejroliya to Vinay Kumar, FOUR, Vinay Kumar finishes the match with a swat through mid-on to put Kolkata Knight Riders on the board, toppling KKR with a four-wicket win at the Eden Gardens.
18.4
1
Khejroliya to Karthik, 1 run, a short slower ball down leg, helped along to fine leg
18.3
1
Khejroliya to Vinay Kumar, 1 run, back of a length down leg, clipped to square leg for a run
18.3
1w
Khejroliya to Vinay Kumar, 1 wide, 133 kph, short down leg, that's wide. Waaaaay over the batsman's head. Shouldn't that have been a no-ball?
18.2
1
Khejroliya to Karthik, 1 run, that's the first bouncer of the over, or should be! On middle and leg, pulled down to fine leg for a run.
18.1
1
Khejroliya to Vinay Kumar, 1 run, short and wide outside off, carved away to deep cover. Sundar runs in, and juggles the catch but puts it down. That should have been taken

Vinay Kumar. 9 to win off 12.

KKR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st16SP NarineCA Lynn
2nd49RV UthappaSP Narine
3rd18RV UthappaN Rana
4th55KD KarthikN Rana
5th8KD KarthikRK Singh
6th18KD KarthikAD Russell
7th13KD KarthikR Vinay Kumar