3rd Match of IPL 2018 is playing between Kohli’s led Royal Challengers Bangalore and Karthik’s lead two-time champion Kolkata Knight Riders. At first, KKR won the toss and elected to bowl first. Narine vs Kohli: Kohli has scored only 52 runs off 51 balls from Narine since 2013 – the strike-rate of 101.96 is the lowest for Kohli against a bowler in IPL (30+balls). He has crossed 50 only once in seven innings at the Eden Gardens. For LIVE Commentary and updates, get in touch with us. AB de Villiers vs Piyush Chawla: Chawla has dismissed de Villiers four times – the joint-most he has gotten out to any bowler. Since 2013, Chawla has got de Villiers out twice in 14 balls.
8:52 PM IST- Johnson to de Villiers, SIX, to long-off
8:51 PM IST- Johnson to de Villiers, FOUR, to backward square leg
8:47 PM IST- Narine to Kohli, FOUR, he’s so good with those cover-drives. Full delivery outside off stump, Kohli waits and lofts the drive over the infield and the timing was great
8:46 PM IST- Narine to de Villiers, SIX, this is what he does so well. Those small movements in the crease before the bowler delivers and that puts many bowlers off.
8:45 PM IST- Kuldeep Yadav to de Villiers, SIX, straight down the ground
8:43 PM IST- Kuldeep Yadav to de Villiers, SIX, that’s not a bad ball at all from Kuldeep Yadav. Not easy to time the away-spinning ball
8:35 PM IST- Narine to Brendon McCullum, out Bowled!! It’s turned and gone through the gate. Came slowly than McCullum expected and he was through his pull shot early. Brendon McCullum b Narine 43(27) [4s-6 6s-2]
8:33 PM IST- Johnson to Brendon McCullum, FOUR
8:31 PM IST- Johnson to Brendon McCullum, FOUR, oh he’s bludgeoned this very hard. Full and outside off stump,
8:30 PM IST- Narine to Brendon McCullum, 1 run, very full and outside off stump, McCullum drives it to long-off
8:29 PM IST- Narine to Kohli, 1 run, to deep mid-wicket
8:27 PM IST- Kohli has been dismissed by spinners only 7 times in the last 5 years of the IPL. He averages 146.29 against spinners in the last five years with an SR of 138.”
8:26 PM IST- Chawla to Brendon McCullum, SIX, to long-on
8:21 PM IST- Chawla to Brendon McCullum, no run
8:20 PM IST- Kuldeep Yadav to Brendon McCullum, FOUR, that’s completely mistimed, yet McCullum will get a boundary, this game is so cruel for the bowlers.
8:17 PM IST- Chawla to Brendon McCullum, 1 run, fullish and on the leg stump, softly glanced to short fine leg
8:16 PM IST- Chawla to Brendon McCullum, FOUR, to deep backward point
CHAWLA GOT HIS 127TH IPL WICKET, WILL HE BREAKS MALINGA’S RECORD–I54 WICKETS IN IPL
8:13 PM IST- Kuldeep Yadav to Kohli, 1 run, to long-on
8:12 PM IST- Kuldeep Yadav to Kohli, 1 run, to long-on
8:11 PM IST- Kuldeep Yadav to Kohli, 1 run, flighted delivery on the leg stump, Kohli flicks it to deep mid-wicket
8:10 PM IST- Chawla to Kohli, 1 run, shortish and on the stumps, Kohli nudges to deep mid-wicket
8:08 PM IST- Chawla to de Kock, out Caught by Vinay Kumar!! That’s a soft dismissal and Chawla blows a kiss de Kock c Vinay Kumar b Chawla 4(4) [4s-1]
8:05 PM IST- Chawla to de Kock, FOUR
8:02 PM IST- Vinay Kumar to Brendon McCullum, SIX
8:01 PM IST- Vinay Kumar to Brendon McCullum, FOUR
8:00 PM IST- Brendon McCullum and de Kock are at the crease. Brendon McCullum is on strike. Vinay Kumar will open the attack
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Brendon McCullum, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers, Sarfaraz Khan, Mandeep Singh, Washington Sundar, Chris Woakes, Kulwant Khejroliya, Umesh Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Nitish Rana, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Vinay Kumar, Mitchell Johnson, Kuldeep Yadav