Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore By 4 Wickets To Reach Qualifier 2 in the Eliminator match of the IPL 2021.
The Eliminator match of the Indian Premier League 2021 was played yesterday between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, in which Kolkata Knight Riders win over Royal Challengers Bangalore by 4 wickets to reach Qualifier 2, which will be played on 13 October with Delhi Capitals.
Royal Challengers Bangalore batted first after winning the toss, started the inning very well, Devdutt Padikkal and Virat Kohli came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start partnership of 49 runs, the first wicket of the inning has gone for 49 runs in 5.1 over, Devdutt Padikkal after scoring 21 runs in 18 balls, next batsman Srikar Bharat came to bat, after few moments he also dismissed just for 9 runs in 16 balls as the second wicket in 9.4 overs, the team score was 69 runs, followed by Glenn Maxwell came to bat and played well with Virat Kohli, the third wicket has gone for 88 runs in 12.2 over, Virat Kohli has dismissed after scoring 39 runs in 33 balls, next batsman AB de Villiers came to bat, after few moments he also dismissed just for 11 runs in 9 balls as the fourth wicket in 14.2 overs, the team score was 102 runs, followed by Shahbaz Ahmed came to bat, and played well with Glenn Maxwell, the fifth wicket has dismissed for 112 runs in 16.4 over, Glenn Maxwell dismissed after scoring 15 runs in 18 balls, next batsman Daniel Christian came to bat, and played well with Shahbaz Ahmed, the sixth wicket has gone for 126 runs in the last ball of the 19th over, Shahbaz Ahmed dismissed after scoring 13 runs in 14 balls, followed by Harshal Patel came to bat, after few moments Daniel Christian also dismissed for 9 runs in the fourth ball of the last over as seventh wicket, the team score was 134 runs after that George Garton came to bat, and he remains unbeaten without playing any ball with Harshal Patel, and Harshal Patel also remains unbeaten for 8 runs in 6 balls. In this way, Royal Challengers Bangalore batted first after winning the toss scored 138 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, and set a target of 139 runs in front of Kolkata Knight Riders.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Sunil Narine performed very brilliantly took 4 wickets just for 21 runs in his spell, and Shivam Mavi took 2 wickets for 30 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders chasing 139 runs in the second inning achived the target for losing 6 wickets in fourth ball of the last over, and won the match by 4 wickets, Kolkata Knight Riders also started the inning very well, Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start partnership of 41 runs, the first wicket has gone for 41 runs in 5.2 over, Shubman Gill dismissed after scoring 29 runs in 18 balls, next batsman Rahul Tripathi came to bat, and he dismissed very quickly just for 6 runs as second wicket in last ball of the seventh over, the team score was 53 runs, followed by Nitish Rana came to bat, and played well with Venkatesh Iyer, the third wicket has gone for 79 runs in last ball of the 11th over, Venkatesh Iyer dismissed after scoring 26 runs in 30 balls, next batsman Sunil Narine came to bat, and handled the inning with Nitish Rana, the fourth wicket has gone for 110 runs in 14.2 over, Nitish Rana out after scoring 23 runs in 25 balls, followed by Dinesh Karthik came to bat, and played well with Sunil Narine, the fifth wicket has out for 125 runs in 17.2 over, Sunil Narine dismissed after playing a brilliant quick inning of 26 runs in 15 balls, next batsman Eoin Morgan came to bat, menwhile Dinesh Karthik also dismissed for 10 runs in 12 balls as sixth wicket in 17.4 over, the team score was 126 runs, after that Shakib Al Hasan came to bat, and took the match to the victory with Eoin Morgan, Eoin Morgan remains unbeaten for 5 runs in 7 balls, and Shakib Al Hasan also remains unbeaten for 9 runs in 6 balls. In this way, Kolkata Knight Riders chasing 139 runs in the second inning achieved the target for the loss of 6 wickets in 19.4 overs and won the match by 4 wickets to reach the 2nd Qualifier match which will be played on 13 Oct with Delhi Capitals.
Royal Challengers Bangalore bowlers, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, and Yuzvendra Chahal took 2-2 wickets.
Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Sunil Narine was selected for the Man Of The Match, he performed brilliant bowling as well also in batting, took 4 wickets just for 21 runs in his spell, and played a quick inning of 26 runs in just 15 balls.
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