Check out some of the best photos from the Kolkata Knight Riders’ four-wicket win over the Royal Challengers Bangalore in the first eliminator of the IPL 2021 playoffs.
The Kolkata Knight Riders beat the Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets as Virat Kohli played his final match as RCB captain.
Devdutt Padikkal and Kohli got RCB off to a pretty good start with a partnership of 49.
Some excellent bowling from Sunil Narine then saw him completely dismantle the RCB batting line-up, as he took 4 wickets, including those of Kohli, Glenn Maxwell, and AB de Villiers.
KKR was ultimately given a target of 139 to chase down, and they got started on the right note, as Venkatesh Iyer and Shubman Gill came up with a partnership of 41.
RCB’s bowlers did well to pull it back a little, taking important wickets. One of the standout performers was Harshal Patel, whose two wickets meant he tied for most wickets in a season with Bravo on 32.
Yuzvendra Chahal and Mohammed Siraj also picked up a couple of wickets apiece, and for a while, it looked like RCB might have done enough to restrict KKR.
However Sunil Narine then added to his wickets with an explosive knock, in which he hit three sixes in a single over to give KKR the push they needed to get across the finish line.