Kolkata Knight Riders got back to winning ways after Jason Roy's sterling fifty to help them snap their four-match losing streak with a 21-win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2023, in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The English opener led the show with a 29-ball 56 as Kolkata Knight Riders batters fired in unison to notch up a fighting 200/5 after RCB captain Virat Kohli opted to bowl at their home den. But the spin duo of Varun Chakravarthy (3/24) and rookie Suyash Sharma (2/30) created a top-order mayhem, before Andre Russell (2/29) broke Kohli's resistance to restrict RCB to 179 for eight. Leading the side in absence of Faf Du Plessis, Kohli struck a 34-ball 54 and kept their hopes up in the 201-run chase after du Plessis (17) Glenn Maxwell (5) fell cheaply. KKR thus did a double on RCB, having beaten them in their season-opener by 81 runs.
IPL 2023, RCB Vs KKR: Jason Roy, Varun Chakravarthy Help KKR Beat RCB By 21 Runs - In Pics
Kolkata Knight Riders got back to winning ways after Jason Roy's sterling fifty to help them snap their four-match losing streak with a 21-win over Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL 2023, in Bengaluru on Wednesday. The English opener led the show with a 29-ball 56 as Kolkata Knight Riders batters fired in unison to notch up a fighting 200/5 after RCB captain Virat Kohli opted to bowl at their home den. But the spin duo of Varun Chakravarthy (3/24) and rookie Suyash Sharma (2/30) created a top-order mayhem, before Andre Russell (2/29) broke Kohli's resistance to restrict RCB to 179 for eight. Leading the side in absence of Faf Du Plessis, Kohli struck a 34-ball 54 and kept their hopes up in the 201-run chase after du Plessis (17) Glenn Maxwell (5) fell cheaply. KKR thus did a double on RCB, having beaten them in their season-opener by 81 runs.
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