Key Points
No IPL team had lost at home till Thursday but Royal Challengers Bengalurus bowlers grossly erred in their lengths and pace variation as Kolkata Knight Riders rode a fifty from Venkatesh Iyer and a stellar 22-ball 47 from Sunil Narineplaying his 500th T20 matchto coast to a seven-wicket victory at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday.I)..
Virat Kohli anchored RCBs innings with a 59-ball 83his second consecutive fifty this IPLalong with contributions from Cameron Green and Glenn Maxwell but it needed an eight-ball 20 from Dinesh Karthik to finish with a semblance of flourish..
KKR however came out guns blazing as openers Phil Salt and Sunil Narine put on a stand of 86 before Venkatesh steered them through the middle overs with a responsible fifty that allowed KKR to win with 19 balls to spare..
Six and a wicket seemed to be the recurrent theme at Chinnaswamy when RCB captain Faf du Plessis and Green fell in similar fashion but Kohli kept the innings together from one end with one of the more curious innings of his career where he missed more than usual..
Slow left-arm bowler Anukul Roy conceded just six off two suffocating overs before Varun Chakaravarthy put the brakes on RCB with a three-run over but it was Andre Russell who rubbed it in with the slower balls that Kohli just wasn't able to connect..
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