HIGHLIGHTS : KKR vs RCB 9th IPL Match HIGHLIGHTS | Kolkata Knight Riders won by 81 runs
#kkrvsrcb #9thmatch #highlights
HIGHLIGHTS : KKR vs RCB 9th IPL Match HIGHLIGHTS | Kolkata Knight Riders won by 81 runs
#kkrvsrcb #9thmatch #highlights
In the ninth and most exciting match of IPL 2023, two big teams of IPL history clashed with each other. This time Faf du Plessis's Royal Challengers Bangalore team stood in front of Nitish Rana's Kolkata Knight Riders. In this hair-raising match, Bengaluru captain Faf Duplessis won the toss and decided to bowl first and invited the Kolkata team to bat first. After that, Kolkata's two veteran opener batsmen with the intention of raining runs Entered the field. On the shoulders of Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Venkatesh Iyer, there was a big responsibility of providing an explosive opening start to their team in this mega match. But the hopes of the Kolkata team were broken by the fast bowling of Bangalore in the beginning of the innings and David Willey, who came to bowl the fourth over of the innings, clean bowled Venkatesh Iyer. Venkatesh Iyer was dismissed after scoring 3 runs in 7 balls. After Venkatesh Iyer's early dismissal, Mandeep Singh came out to bat for the Kolkata team. But David Willey, who was bowling, got him clean bowled on his very first ball. Mandeep Singh was dismissed without even opening an account. Kolkata's team had lost two of its big batsmen in a single over. Due to which the top order of Kolkata was shaken. But after the fall of the wicket, now captain Nitish Rana came to bat in Kolkata. Kolkata opener Rahmanullah Gurbaj was batting in excellent form from one end. But none of the Kolkata batsmen were able to support him and then Michael Bracewell, who came to bat in the 7th over, got Nitish Rana caught out by Dinesh Karthik. Nitish Rana got out after scoring 1 run in 5 balls. In no time, the entire Kolkata batting had faltered. None of the Kolkata batsmen were able to stand in front of the Bangalore bowling. Rahmanullah Gurbaj was the only batsman who was able to play big shots on the bowling of Bangalore and then after the fall of the wicket, Rahmanullah Gurbaj along with Rinku Singh came to bat. Took control of Kolkata's innings and started building a crucial partnership. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was seen in excellent form in this match. On the ground where Kolkata's biggest batsmen looked weak, Rahmanullah Gurbaj was easily scoring runs on Bengaluru's bowling and meanwhile Rahmanullah Gurbaj, who was batting brilliantly, completed his half-century. Rahmanullah Gurbaj and Rinku Singh together batted almost till the 11th over of the innings and took their team to 89 runs. But then Karan Sharma, who came to bowl the 12th over of the innings, did wonders and got the most for Bengaluru on his second ball of this over. Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who had become a big threat, was caught out by Akash Deep. Rahmanullah Gurbaz got out after playing a brilliant inning of 57 runs in 44 balls. So the same Kolkata's most explosive batsman Andre Russell, who came to bat his very next ball, was also caught out by Karan Sharma at the hands of Virat Kohli. Andre Russell was dismissed without opening the account. The batsman on whom the Kolkata team had the most confidence was dismissed without scoring a run. Kolkata were under complete pressure due to the biggest wicket of Andre Russell. But now after the fall of the wicket, Shardul Thakur came to the field from the Bangalore team. But Bengaluru's bowling had considered Shardul Thakur as a minor lower-order batsman and then it proved to be the biggest mistake of the Bengaluru team in this match and then Shardul Thakur started playing big shots with his bat explosively as soon as he arrived. Shardul Thakur was taking the field with a different confidence. Due to this amazing batting of Shardul Thakur, the captain of Bengaluru had come under pressure. This partnership of Rinku Singh and Shardul Thakur was showing the best performance for the Kolkata team. And then in this over of Michael Bracewell, who came to bowl the 15th over of the innings, Shardul Thakur scored 16 runs by hitting two consecutive sixes. Due to this explosive batting of Shardul Thakur, Rinku Singh and Shardul Thakur also completed their half-century partnership. Even after the completion of the half-century partnership, Shardul Thakur's bat was not taking the name of stopping. After the dismissal of Andre Russell, Kolkata's batting started looking weak but Shardul Thakur single-handedly took his team out of the pressure and Show it by batting brilliantly and then in the meantime Shardul Thakur also completed his half-century. This pair of Shardul Thakur and Rinku Singh was tearing apart the bowling of Bengaluru. Breaking the partnership of Rinku Singh and Shardul Thakur was now almost impossible for the Bengaluru bowling
