RCB suffers crushing defeat

Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru by seven wickets in the Indian Premier League 2024 match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday. Venkatesh Iyer scored a fifty while Phil Salt and Sunil Narine started Kolkata Knight Riders’s (KKR) on the right foot they defeated Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) by 7 wickets. Sunil Narine, POTM said, It’s a nice milestone (500 T20s). Hopefully 500 more to come. It’s just the self belief and the support staff giving the encouragement. Also the hard work. Powerplay over is the hardest over – just have to let that go and keep it tight. Helps when you win. Players have full freedom to do what they want to do. Shreyas, KKR captain, said, Coming here, getting those two sessions of practice, we were in a good shape from the previous game. Coming and hitting few balls, it felt comfortable from within. The way Russell came in and realised the wicket wasn’t giving much for bowlers, and went to slower ones, analysing the conditions on the spot was pleasing to the eye. The communication was brilliant. See when Narine comes in to open, he knows he has one job which is to clear the infield. Today we were contemplating whether to start with him or not but he did a brilliant job. From one end, it was good to bat on. From the other end it was two paced. That was the communication we had in the middle and we passed it onto others. Would be spending a day tomorrow in Bangalore, and then go to Vizag. I’m not expecting much at this point of time – it’s just the start of the tournament. Want to enjoy each other’s success – that’s the plan for now. KKR have now won five of their last six matches against RCB, they had lost four on the trot before this sequence. Venkatesh Iyer said, It’s just a little jacked up, have to go and have a scan. To be honest, it got better as the game went on, one end in particular, the Pavilion end and credit to Narine, the pressure was off and we h