IPL points table: Virat Kohli's unbeaten 83 resulted in a losing cause for RCB as Kolkata Knight Riders chased down the 183-run target with seven wickets and 19 balls remaining in the tenth match of the Indian Premier League 2024 at M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday.
Virat Kohli top-scored with 83* off 59 to help Royal Challengers Bengaluru post 182 while batting first at M Chinnaswamy Stadium. Sunil Narine, playing in his 500th T20 match, scored a brilliant 47 off just 22 and took one big wicket to help Kolkata record a dominant win.
Virat Kohli smashed three sixes to complete his fifty against Kolkata Knight Riders in the tenth match of the Indians Premier League 2024. Kohli now boasts 240 sixes in his 240 IPL matches and is only behind three players in the list of players with the most sixes in tournament history.
RCB vs KKR IPL 2024 Highlights: Royal Challengers Bengaluru registered an impressive win against Punjab Kings to record their first win of the season but enter the upcoming clash against Kolkata as second favourites having won just once in the last five meetings.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru will take on the Kolkata Knight Riders in Match No 10 of the 2024 edition of the IPL. One of the most underrated yet fiercest rivalries of the IPL will see Virat Kohli and Gautam Gambhir against each other once again with former KKR skipper back with the side as mentor.
Royal Challengers Bengaluru registered an impressive win against Punjab Kings at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in their last game while Kolkata Knight Riders defended 208 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their first game of the IPL 2024.
Virat Kohli recorded his 100th T20 fifty by smashing 77 off 49 balls against Punjab Kings to help RCB register their first win of the IPL 2024 at Bengaluru's M Chinnaswamy Stadium. However, they suffered a big defeat in their last game against KKR at the same venue in IPL 2023.
Rajasthan Royals signed the experienced South African spinner Keshav Maharaj for a base price of INR 50 lakh as an injury replacement for the pacer Prasidh Krishna and Kolkata Knight Riders signed the rising Afghanistan spinner Allah Ghazanfar.
Andre Russell was the Player of the Match (POTM) for his astounding all-round performance. Russell smashed an unbeaten 64 off just 25 balls with the help of three fours and seven sixes. He also finished with figures of 2/25.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won their opening encounter in the 2024 edition of the IPL but almost handed the game to the Sunrisers Hyderabad if not for a calm and composed final over from Harshit Rana. Returning to IPL after nine years, Mitchell Starc didn't have an auspicious start for KKR.
Andre Russell smashed 64* off just 25 balls with the help of seven huge sixes and debutant Phil Salt added a brilliant fifty to help the Kolkata Knight Riders post 208 while batting first against Sunrisers Hyderabad in the third match of the IPL 2024.
New captain Pat Cummins won the toss as Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to bowl first in their opening IPL 2024 game against Kolkata Knight Riders. Mitchell Starc returned to IPL after nine years as Kolkata fielded a strong playing eleven against SRH.
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad IPL 2024 Highlights: Kolkata Knight Riders won their opening game in the 2024 edition of the IPL against the Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens owing to Andre Russell's all-round show while Harshit Rana kept his nerves in the final over with the ball.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) finished the previous Indian Premier League (IPL) season in seventh place on the points table. They will be led by their designated skipper Shreyas Iyer in the 17th edition of the cash-rich league.
Sunrisers Hyderabad are set to enter the Indian Premier League 2024 with a new captain in the form of Pat Cummins and are boosted with new signings of Travis Head, and Wanindu Hasaranga ahead of their opening clash against Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.
Kolkata Knight Riders will be led by their skipper Shreyas Iyer who missed the previous season due to back surgery whereas Pat Cummins will don the captaincy hat for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Star Indian batter Shreyas Iyer returns for Kolkata Knight Riders to take the captaincy role while Sunriser Hyderabad promote World Cup-winning captain Pat Cummins to lead the team in the upcoming IPL 2024 season.
Chandrakant Pandit is the head coach of Kolkata Knight Riders and will have Gautam Gambhir for support as the former KKR captain has been roped in as the mentor of the two-time IPL champions.
Islamabad United won their third PSL title beating Multan Sultans in the final by two wickets in a thriller on Monday, March 18 in Karachi. United now are the most successful team in PSL history while Sultans have lost a third final in a row. All that and more in our Sports Wrap for today.
The preparations for the upcoming edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) are in full flow at the moment with most of the players joining their respective teams. The 17th season of the cash-rich league is set to get underway on March 22 with the match between CSK and RCB.
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