Apart from the match, there was an on-field incident during the Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders match. Gautam Gambhir shakes hands with Virat Kohli during a strategic pause in the RCB innings. They hugged too. For the uninitiated, Kohli and Gambhir share a checkered past. The two stars were involved in a highly publicized on-field brawl in IPL 2024, which also involved Naveen-ul-Haq. However, a different scene played out at the M Stadium when Kohli and Gambhir came face to face on Friday. Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Former Indian cricket team star Irrfan Pathan, who played with Gambhir and Kohli, commented on the incident.
“Gautam Gambhir, the senior man, actually stepped up to the plate. Sometimes you cross the line but once that thing has passed, when you meet in the future, when you meet now, you will meet well .That’s what we saw,” Irrfan Pathan said on Star Sports.
Talking about the match, Kolkata Knight Riders became the first team to win away from home in this IPL with a comprehensive seven-wicket victory over Royal Challengers Bangalore at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday thanks to a brilliant batting performance. The tone of the match was set on the second ball of the first over when Philip Salt hit a smokey six over mid-wicket. The next ball, in the blink of an eye, the ball was bowled for four. Salter hit six more balls to put RCB in trouble. Mohammed Siraj bowled the first over of the innings, conceding 18 runs and defending 183 runs.
Sunil Narine, playing his 500th T20 match, also joined the team as the two batsmen put on a 86-run stand in the opening over.
After the first pair were eliminated, Venkatesh Iyer and captain Shreyas Iyer boosted KKR’s innings with some excellent stroke play.
Venkatesh completed his fifty in 29 balls but ended up losing his wicket in the next ball. Iyer and Rinku Singh held on till the end to ensure that RCB crossed the finish line with more than 3 overs remaining.
Earlier in the innings, RCB batsmen Faf Du Plessis and Virat Kohli struck out to start the innings.
The two batsmen combined for 17 runs and skipper Du Plessis was sent back to the stands after scoring 8 runs.
After the skipper was dismissed, right-handed batsman Cameron Green came on to bat. The team completed their 50-run run off the fourth ball of the sixth over when Green hit a boundary off the bowling of Sunil Narine.
Kohli and Green completed 50 runs together.
The Australia all-rounder, who was dismissed by Andre Russell on the last ball of the ninth over when the team scored 82 runs, scored 33 runs off 21 balls with the help of four boundaries and two sixes .
After Green was fired, power hitter Glenn Maxwell was brought on board.
Kohli completed his 50 in the 11th over with a single off the bowling of Varun Chakravarthy. In the same over, Bengaluru crossed the 100-run mark with Maxwell hitting a boundary on the penultimate ball of the over.
Maxwell was dismissed after scoring 28 runs in 19 balls (three fours and one six). The right-handed batsman was dismissed by Narine.
After Maxwell’s wicket, Rajat Patidar came on to bat. He was dismissed when the team scored 144 runs. The right-handed batsman scored just three runs and returned to the dressing room.
After Patid’s departure, wicketkeeper-batsman Anuj Rawat came on to bat. He scored just three runs before being dismissed for 151 in the 18th over.
In the end, Dinesh Karthik played a quick cameo of 20 runs off just 8 balls with the help of three full runs, and Kohli ended his run with an unbeaten 83 off 59 balls. An innings in which there were four boundaries and four sx’s.
For KKR, Harshit Rana grabbed two wickets each while Russell took one wicket by Sunil Narine.
With ANI input
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