Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) batsman Venkatesh Iyer praised all-rounder Sunil Narine after their win over Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in the Indian Premier League (IPL). Sunil Narine took the pressure off the batsmen with his explosive knocks in the powerplay. Veteran West Indies star Narine’s 500th T20 game left a lasting memory for himself and KKR with his all-round performance at the Chinnnnaswamy Stadium on Saturday. The team defeated RCB by seven wickets.

During the match, Venkatesh smashed a half-century but was injured while batting and appeared to have injured his back.

“Let’s see how my back is doing. I’ll know after the scan. The evening match went well. Credit goes to Sunil Narine, whose runs took the pressure off us. We just have to get the formalities done. That’s it. A platform like this, you have to maximize (in his mindset). Also, my fiancé is here today, so it’s a special day. (Facing Vijaykumar Vyshak) The overall pacing is tough ‘s, but if the fast bowlers bowl in rhythm, it’s easy to take them to the cleaners. It happened to us in our bowling innings as well,” Iyer said in his post-match speech.

RCB batsman Kohli was criticized for his slow batting even though the star batsman scored 83 runs in 59 balls.

However, Venkatesh revealed that the pace of the first game was slightly slower for two.

“The wicket in the first innings was double rhythm and double bounce. It was difficult to hit boundaries in the first innings. In Chinnaswamy’s match yesterday, the bowling got better in the second innings,” he added.

After KKR won, they chose to field. After losing captain Faf early, Virat Kohli combined with Cameron Green for 65 runs (33 off 21 balls with 4 boundaries and 2 sixes) and with Glenn Maxwell Glenn Maxwell had a 42-run partnership (28 off 19 balls, including 3 fours and a six). six). Virat scored 83* in 59 balls with 4 boundaries and 4 sixes and took RCB’s score to 182 in 20 overs along with Dinesh Karthik (20* in 8 balls with 3 sixes) /6.

Andre Russell (2/29) and Harshit Rana (2/39) are the bowlers for KKR.

In the run-chase, Phil Salt (30 off 20 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes) and Sunil Narine (47 off 22 balls with 2 fours and 2 sixes) 5 sixes) helped KKR get off to a good start with a quick score of 86 runs. 39 balls. After Vyshak and Mayank Dagar (1/23 each) dismissed the openers, Venkatesh Iyer (50 off 30 balls, including 3 fours and 4 sixes) and captain Shreyas Iyer (39 off 24 balls, including 2 sixes) Four balls and two sixes) guided KKR to a 7-wicket victory with 19 balls remaining.

Sunil won the Man of the Match award in his 500th match with 47 wickets and 1 wicket.

RCB is ranked sixth in the table with 1 win and 2 losses. They only have two points. With two wins from two games, KKR are in second place with 4 points.

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