IPL 2023 KKR vs RCB LIVE Cricket Score Updates: Varun Chakaravarthy bags four wkts as KKR beat RCB by 81 runs

IPL 2023 KKR vs RCB LIVE Cricket Score Updates, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Full Scorecard: Kolkata Knight Riders mauled Royal Challengers Bangalore by 81 runs after KKR spinners Varun Chakaravarthy (4 for 15), Suyash Sharma (3 for 30), and Sunil Narine (2 for 16) picked up 9 wickets among them as RCB capitulated to a total of mere 123 runs, losing all their wickets in just 17.4  overs. Faf du Plessis (23) and Virat Kohli (21) began the RCB innings well, but once the two departed it was a downhill slide for Bangalore, which arrested only when the entire side was back in the hut.

In the first innings of the match, "Lord" Shardul Thakur blasted RCB bowlers all over the Eden Gardens to bring up the joint-fastest fifty of this IPL. He raced to a half-century off 20 balls only (equalling Joe Root's record of fastest fifty in IPL 2023), and then went on to score 68 runs (off 29 balls) - in a masterful innings that was punctuated by 9-sixes and 3-fours. Further buoyed by Rahmanullah Gurbaz's 57 runs off 44 balls, KKR ended with 204 runs from their stipulated 20 overs, after losing 7 wickets.

Result: KKR WIN BY 81 RUNS!

 

IPL 2023 KKR vs RCB LIVE Cricket Score Updates: Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Full Scorecard

Kolkata Knight Riders Innings (204 Runs / 7 wkts in 20 overs)

Rahmanullah Gurbaz c Akash Deep b Karn Sharma 57 (44)

Venkatesh Iyer b Willey 3 (7)

Mandeep Singh b Willey 0 (1)

Nitish Rana c Karthik b M Bracewell 1 (5)

Rinku Singh c Karthik b Harshal Patel 46 (33)

Andre Russell c Kohli b Karn Sharma 0 (1)

Shardul Thakur c Maxwell b Siraj 68 (29)

Sunil Narine not out 0 (1)

Umesh Yadav not out 6 (2)

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore bowling (Overs - Maidens - Runs - Wickets)

Mohammed Siraj 4-0-44-1

David Willey 4-1-16-2

Akash Deep 2-0-30-0

Michael Bracewell 3-0-34-1

Shahbaz Ahmed 1-0-6-0

Karn Sharma 3-0-26-2

Harshal Patel 3-0-38-1

 

Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings (123 Runs /10 wkts in 17.4 overs)
Virat Kohli b Narine 21 (18)
Faf du Plessis b Chakaravarthy 23 (12)
Michael Bracewell c Nitish Rana b Thakur 19 (18)
Glenn Maxwell b Chakaravarthy 5 (7)
Harshal Patel b Chakaravarthy 0 (2)
Shahbaz Ahmed c Thakur b Narine 1 (5)
Dinesh Karthik c Chakaravarthy b Suyash Sharma 9 (8)
Anuj Rawat c Narine b Suyash Sharma 1 (5)
David Willey not out 20 (20)
Karn Sharma c Nitish Rana b Suyash Sharma 1 (3)
Akash Deep c and b Chakaravarthy 17 (8)

Kolkata Knight Riders bowling (Overs - Maidens - Runs - Wickets)
Umesh Yadav 2-0-17-0
Tim Southee 2-0-25-0
Sunil Narine 4-0-16-2
Varun Chakaravarthy 3.4-0-15-4
Suyash Sharma 4-0-30-3
Shardul Thakur 2-0-15-1

 

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