RCB vs KKR IPL 2024 Highlights: Kolkata thrash Bengaluru by 7 wickets

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Dagar bowling the 17th and Iyer smashes the fifth ball over square leg. That’s the winning runs and KKR have won this with 19 balls remaining. A first win for any team away from home in this IPL and it has come in the most emphatic fashion. RCB will now probably see that 182 was far from being par today, Kohli could have scored a few more runs than 83 in the 59 balls he faced, ending up with a strike rate of 140.67. To make matters worse, KKR’s openers came in and practically took the game away in the powerplay. We saw a role reversal today for KKR’s West Indies legends. Andre Russell did nothing with the bat but his four overs was as important as anything for KKR in this game. Sunil Narine went at 10 an over but smashed 47 off 22 in an innings that flattened RCB. KKR would also be very happy with the fact that Venkatesh Iyer fought his way to 50 off 30 balls despite a back issues. They would also be hoping that said back issues doesn’t hinder his season in any way now. That’s it from us for today, join us tomorrow with LSG hosting PBKS.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: There are 24 balls remaining and KKR need… seven to win. Shreyas Iyer hits a four off the fifth ball of that over and then a single. Iyer moves to 32 off 22, Rinku Singh on two off as many.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 176/3 in 16 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: What an extraordinary innings this has been from Venkatesh Iyer. He reaches his fifty in just 29 balls, Shreyas finishes off the 15th over with a six. Then Venkatesh holes out at cow corner off the first ball of the 16th from Yash Dayal.

Venkatesh c Kohli b Yash Dayal 50 (30)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 167/3 in 15.1 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And well, this game is pretty much over as a contest, unless RCB take a wicket of almost every alternate ball for the next five overs.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Just five runs off the 12th over but who cares about that, KKR need just 46 to win off 48 balls. RCB have been completely blown out of the park here, they need wickets and they need them fast.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 137/2 in 12 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer smashes 16 runs off the first five balls of the 11th but the last shot has caused him some trouble. Alzarri Joseph at the receiving end, the first ball is a dot, then Venkatesh pulls the second ball, which short, over cow corner. Then he guides the next delivery to Dayal at deep third man but the ball goes right through his feet! A dot ball after that and Venkatesh pulls Joseph over fine leg. But he then goes down clutching his back. Physio runs out to check on him. The batter picks himself up eventually and the last ball is another bouncer. Venkatesh pulls and it takes a top edge, flies over the wicketkeeper to the boundary for another four. That is 20 runs off the 11th over, Venkatesh on 32 off 15, Shreyas on 11 off 9.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 132/2 in 11 overs, need 51 to win from 54

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer with some luck off the fourth ball of the 10th over, with Yash Dayal unable to get to his shot in time running in from fine leg. Then some more luck as Cam Green’s knees hits the ropes while he retrieves the ball and it becomes a four. Two runs off the last ball and that makes it eight rtuns off the over, Shreyas on 11 off nine, Venkatesh on 12 off 9.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 112/2 in 10 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Green was placed there by Du Plessis just before this delivery and he ends up taking the catch. Prophetic field placement there from the RCB captain. Impact player Vijaykumar Vyshak gets the wicket. Fifth ball of the eighth is short and angling into him and Salt goes for the pull, it is hit straight to Green at deep square leg. Now it will be the struggling Iyers – Shreyas and Venkatesh, for KKR.

Salt c Green b Vyshak 30 (20)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 92/2 in 7.2 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Mayank Dagar bowls the first over of spin in the seventh and he strikes straightaway. Yorks Narine on off stump third ball and the West Indian is cleaned up. Dagar celebrates but then KKR won’t be too unhappy, Narine has done the job and more.

Narine b Dagar 47 (22)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 86/1 in 6.3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Oh Yash Dayal and Mohammed Sirah have been handed a hiding here. Salt gets off strike first ball and then Narine gets away with a thick edge second ball which races past the short third man fielder. Then Dayal goes short for the third ball and Narine was totally taken by surprise. However, he pulls it eyes closed and it soars into the stands! Another six off the next ball, this time straight down the ground and Narine with his eyes wide open, he knew exactly what he was doing. The fifth ball goes for four leg byes and then finally a dot. Narine is on 47 off 20 balls, Salt on 28 off 16.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: The ploy to send Narine up top has worked today. He smashes the fifth ball of the fifth from Siraj over square leg and then takes two off the last ball to get to 31 off just 15 balls. Salt on 27 off 15.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 64/0 in 5 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Narine hits a couple of big ones off fellow West Indian Alzarri Joseph. He runs two off the first ball, lets go the second expecting it to be called wide but the umpire keeps his hands down. Narine then misses the third ball and then deposits the fourth over long on into the second tier. Then he clears long-on again off the last ball and Narine has raced to 22 off 11 balls. Salt on 17 off 7. This is a good start for KKR.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 46/0 in 3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Phil Salt makes an aggressive start, smashing two sixes and a four against Siraj in the first over as Kohli watched the proceedings from the dugout. 18 runs were scored in the opening over.

KKR 18/0 in 1 over vs RCB (182/6)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine will once again opener for KKR, alongside Phil Salt. Mohammed Siraj opens the attack for RCB.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: “Pretty happy with it (total), we saw how the pitch was playing, the off-cutters obviously working, hopefully it stays the same in the second innings. We have to wait and see. (Batting at three) I love playing there. You’ve got a bit more freedom in the last couple of overs in the powerplay. It’s always nice to bat with Virat, he looked beautiful again today. There’s certain bowlers in their team that I have never faced before. Obviously he has faced some 10 or 20 times, the experience is always amazing. They had a pretty good blueprint, cutters into the wicket – holding and not bouncing even, we have to wait and see if the dew comes in.”

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Virat Kohli has batted through the innings and finished with a score of 83 off 59. A strike rate of 140.67. He has done better than that in his career and he would know it. The batters run two off the first ball of that last over, then Kohli whips the second ball over cow corner for his fourth six of the innings. A single after that and then Karthik picks Starc over fine leg. Another single and then the batters try to run one more off the last ball. But Karthik couldn’t make it back on time, he falls for 20 off eight balls, which is increasingly becoming his typical score in T20s. KKR need 183 to win.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: DK Manages to score off Russell and some death over goodies at last for RCB. Kohli gets off strike first ball, DK then manages to get under the fourth ball and goes over long off. Then he smashes the last one over long off for the second six of the over.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 166/5 in 19 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Five runs and a wicket, in fact. Excellent 18th over from Harshit Rana, it was his last of the spell. It has been exactly two overs now since RCB’s last boundary. Russell to bowl the 19th, Kohli on strike, he has scored 74 in 65, Karthik has made one in one.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 153/5 in 18 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: RCB desperately need an impetus, they have been kept quiet and Kohli hasn’t been able to find the boundary at all. Anuj Rawat perishes in the third ball of the 18th to Harshit Rana and that brings out Dinesh Karthik.

Rawat c Salt b Harshit Rana 3 (3)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 151/5 in 17.3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Russell takes all the pace off the from the third ball of the 17th, Patidar heaves across the line and gives Rinku Singh catching practice at deep midwicket. That’s 100 IPL wickets for Russell.

Patidar c Singh b Russell 3 (4)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 144/4 in 16.3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And Virat Kohli is still batting, which is never good news for any opposition side whether it be in the IPL or T20 cricket or even in ODIs. For he has a strike rate of 201.61 in the death overs. He has moved to 67 off 48 at the end of the 16th over, Patidar at the other end on two off two. Russell to bowl the 17th.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 141/3 in 16 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kohli pieces the gap between between deep square leg and deep midwicket off the fourth ball of that over. Then runs a tight two, finished off with a desperate dive that saved him. A single off the last ball and Kohli will stay on strike for the 16th over which will be bowled by Starc. He is on 62 off 43, Patidar at the other end on one off one.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 134/3 in 15 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rinku Singh doesn’t drop ’em. Narine returns for the 15th over and Maxwell hits the first ball straight to backward point. He has done the damage though and this is a good platform for RCB to work on.

Maxwell c Rinku b Narine 28 (19)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 124/3 in 14.1 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And this is in an over where he is walloping the bowler! Oh Sunil Narine, KKR, what in the world is happening? Harshit Rana returns for the 14th, Maxwell smashes the third ball over long-on for a six. Then he loses his shape entirely as he swings across the line for the next one. It takes a top edge to short third where Narine runs back but the ball slips right through the gap between his hands and the body. He chases it to the boundary and the batters run two. Then Maxwell places the next one between backward point and short third and then a single moves him to 28 off 18. Kohli on 53 off 39.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 124/2 in 14 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Oh, KKR are going to regret this. Maxwell goes for a biggie off Narine second ball of the 13th, it flies high into the night sky above Bengaluru and seemed destined to fall into Ramandeep’s hands. But he spills it and Maxwell, of all people, gets a life. The batters ran a single there, then four more singles and that makes it five off the over. Maxwell on 14 off 13, Kohli 52 off 38.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 109/2 in 13 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Maxwell comes on strike after the single that brought up Kohli’s half-century and smashes the fourth ball over the off side for a four. Then he smashes the next ball straight down the ground for a second boundary in a row. A single off the next ball and Maxwell moves to 11 off nine.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 104/2 in 12 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kohli wallops the second ball of the 12th by Chakravarthi over deep midwicket into the stands. Then a single and that brings up his second consecutive fifty. It has come in 36 balls, this man is in sublime form at the moment.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: A little downtime in the scoring with Russell conceding just two in this over and Chakravarthy three in the one before that. Kohli is on 43 off 34, Maxwell still on one off five balls. He needs a good one today.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 87/2 in 11 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Varun Chakravarthy bowls the first over and Kohli was on strike. Three singles is all the batters get in that over and Kohli is now on 42 off 31, Glenn Maxwell at the other end on one off two. Russell to continue for the 11th.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 85/2 in 10 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Timbeeerrrr! Dre Russ celebrates and Cam Green has to go, one all-rounder to the other. Green had smashed the fifth ball of the over, a nice juicy full toss, over deep square leg. Then Russell fires the last delivery full on the pads, Green misses the flick and the ball deflects off the back pads and hits the stumps. Partnership ends on 65 off 42.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 82/2 in 9 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: 10 runs off the eighth over by Narine, six of which came off the fifth ball thanks to Kohli. It was tossed up full and outside off, Kohli gets down on one knee and slogs it over deep midwicket. Four runs off the first three balls in that over. Kohli is on 39 off 25, Green on 26 off 17.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 74/1 in 8 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Anukul Roy has been good so far, just six runs off his first two overs, coming either side of Green’s onslaught on Narine. Kohli is on 30 off 20, Green on 25 off 16.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 64/1 in 7 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: 61 runs scored in the powerplay, safe to say that this has gone RCB’s way and it is thanks to Kohli and Green. Sunil Narine bowled the last over of the powerplay in his 500th T20I with Kohli on strike. The former RCB skipper gets off strike first ball, the next two are dots after which Green swings hard and sends the fourth through square leg. The all-rounder then hits the fifth one through cover after which the sixth is smashed high and mighty back over the bowler’s head for six. Green has moved to 24 in 12 balls, Kohli on 28 off 18.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 61/1 in 6 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Five runs off the first four ball of the fourth over by Harshit Rana. Green punched the fifth ball to backward point and sets off, Kohli responds. But he sees that the fielder has got to it and sends Green back. The big Australian makes his round at the nick of time. Then he upper cuts the last ball over the wicketkeeper to the boundary. Green is on 8 off three, Kohli on 26 off 15.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 43/1 in 4 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Starc returns for the third over as his Australia teammate Cameron Green walks in to replace Du Plessis. Kohli on strike for the first ball, which is defended to cover. The second is nice and full on the pads, Kohli dismisses it from his presence with a wristy flick that soars over deep midwicket and into the stands. Then some luck for the former skipper as the third ball takes an inside edge and goes just over the stumps on the way to the boundary. The batters then run two off the next ball, it didn’t reach the boundary thanks to an extraordinary effort from Rinku Singh at deep backward point. Then a single and Green comes on strike for the first time. He goes for the drive, edged and to the boundary.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 34/1 in 3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Well, Du Plessis hit the first six of the match off the fifth ball of that over from the brilliant Harshit Rana and the bowler has his revenge next delivery. Du Plessis had sent the ball over the boundary with a scoop, perishes to the same shot the next ball as he hit it straight to Starc inside the circle.

du Plessis c Starc b Harshit Rana 8 (6)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 17/1 in 2 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Yep, the word luck is written there, not duck, so you can relax RCB fans. Outside edge off the first ball from Starc but Kohli had played it with soft hands. It hence goes along the ground past short third and the Chinnaswamy roars as the ball races to the boundary.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 7/0 in 1 over

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Allright then, Virat Kohli is on strike, Mitchell Starc has the ball in his hands, RCB captain Faf du Plessis is at the non-striker’s end. Here we go!

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: The 18-year-old, who was part of the Indian team that played in the 2022 U19 World Cup, had been handed his cap before the toss but is not in the playing XI. This also means that KKR have decided to drop Nitish Rana with Anukul Roy coming in.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Oh this bleedin’ Impact Player rule puts captains in such awkward situations at times. It leaves Shreyas Iyer fumbling around with two team sheets in his hands and countless invisible question marks popping in and out of existence over his head.

Here is the team in the end: Philip Salt(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Mitchell Starc, Anukul Roy, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Here is the RCB XI: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Cameron Green, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, Anuj Rawat(w), Dinesh Karthik, Alzarri Joseph, Mayank Dagar, Mohammed Siraj, Yash Dayal

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Faf spins it, Shreyas calls it and wins. KKR are bowling first.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: We have cricketing royalty doing the pitch report for the host broadcasters – Ian Bishop and Sunil Gavaskar. It looks a glorious evening. The square is a little bit used, but the outfield looks superb, then say. Dimensions of the ground aren’t huge – 61 metres either side of the centre and 75 metres down the ground. A high six-hitting ground. The first game played here, we saw a number of seam bowlers taking pace off the ball. Maybe that’s something faster bowlers may go to today. It looks interesting. It’s still a good pitch, it’s hard but there are areas over here – when you look at the good length spots, some of these cracks over here, when you touch, they are a little bit loose. If the spinners keep landing the ball over here, it’s going to come apart a little bit and get you a little more turn. We hope there’ll be no dew interrupting.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Andre Russell had put in some impressive performances coming into this IPL, most prominently in West Indies’ third T20I against Australia. He announced himself in quite an extraordinary fashion in the tournament, smashing 64 off just 25 balls and then taking two wickets to help KKR edge out SRH in their opening match.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine being promoted to the top of the order was seen among the things that helped Gambhir’s KKR become a title-winning team. However, since he left the team, and since Narine’s susceptibility to the short ball was discovered, the West Indies spinner was sent back to the lower order. Now Gambhir is back and so, it seems, the ploy to put Narine up top. It didn’t work at all during the first match with Narine running himself out while at the non-striker’s end after having scored just two runs. Wonder if KKR will stick with this tactic today.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Since Starc played for RCB in the two seasons before this one, he has never faced Kohli in the IPL. According to ESPNCricinfo, Kohli has faced 28 deliveries from Starc in T20 cricket for India and for RCB in the now-defunct Champions League. In those duels, Kohli hit Starc for 47 runs without being dismissed even once. Overall, Kohli averages 31.53 against left-arm pace in all T20s with 52 dismissals.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: RCB fielded just four frontline bowlers and got five overs out of their two overseas allrounders. This allowed them to field both Dinesh Karthik and Anuj Rawat in the regular XI, with Mahipal Lomror bolstering their batting depth as an Impact Sub. Batting coach Neil McKenzie indicated in the pre-match presser that RCB are not considering tinkering with this combination at the moment.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Battles between Virat Kohli and Mitchell Starc has offered some of the great moments in Test cricket in the last 10 years. One person who knows quite a bit about both players is Steve Smith, Starc’s longtime Australia teammate and Kohli’s great rival. Smith said on ESPNcricinfo’s TimeOut that he reckons Starc is going to swing the ball back down the line early on to Kohli and then use the wobble seam to go across him [Kohli], and potentially try and nick him off. “I’m aware Virat would know how Starc’s trying to attack him as well – whether he tries to potentially come down the track [to] just take the swing out of play [we’ll see]. It’s going to be interesting to see how he counters it,” he said.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Well if you are still thinking that this feud is something that is being used and milked dry by only us vultures in the media and no one else, well you are only partly right. Because even the Kolkata Knight Riders social media team have dipped a straw into the glass to drink some Kohli vs Gambhir rivalry juice. Read more about that here.