Royal Challengers Bangalore opted to bat first, both teams were playing with the same side. RCB got the desired start, they capitalized the powerplay overs. Openers added 49 runs before Padikkal (21) gets played on off Ferguson’s delivery. RCB has started off perfectly but wickets kept falling and they lost the momentum. The fall of trio Kohli (39), Maxwell (15), De Villiers (11) shifted the momentum towards KKR.
Ab De Villiers in UAE leg was very ordinary, 106 runs, Avg 17.66, SR 124. RCB tried to score quickly in the death overs but KKR outclassed them. Sunil Narine was outstanding today, he took 4 wickets for just 21 runs, he cleaned up the trio, and restricted RCB for just 138-7.
In response, KKR started well, Shubman Gill was scoring quick while Venkatesh Iyer was rotating the strike. Back-to-back wickets of Gill (29), and Tripathi (6) puts pressure back on KKR. But Sunil Narine came up in the order and hit three back-to-back sixes and almost fixed the victory for KKR.
But IPL always brings twist, Siraj gets two wickets of Narine (26), Karthik (10) in one over and bring RCB back in the game. Siraj in 18th over gave just 3 runs and took 2 wickets. 7 runs was needed off the last over and Shakib scoops a slower ball and gets a boundary and eventually, KKR beat RCB by 4 wickets. With this loss RCB knocked out from IPL 2021 and last match for Virat Kohli as captain for RCB ended here. KKR will play against DC in the second qualifier.
Harshal Patel 2 for 19, Chahal 2 for 16, Siraj 2 for 19 did magnificent work with the ball. Fielding was very poor from RCB, they have dropped a lot of catches and missed run-out opportunity too.
Sunil Narine gets the player of the match award for his contribution with bat and ball.
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