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Royal Challengers Bangalore, chasing a hat-trick of wins in the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, set a 205-run target against Kolkata Knight Riders in Chennai on Sunday. Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bat against the two-time champions in the 10th match. But they lost both Kohli and Rajat Patidar in the second over to Varun Chakravarthy. Glenn Maxwell (78 off 49) and Devdutt Padikkal (25 off 28) steadied the innings, before finishing touches from AB de Villiers (76 off 34) and Kyle Jamieson (11 off 4). Get here live cricket scores of RCB v KKR in Chennai.
3:05 PM IST: One change for RCB. Rajat Patidar comes in for Dan Christian as they rather bravely prefer to play with three foreigners instead of four. KKR are unchanged.
Playing XIs:
RCB: Virat Kohli (c), Devdutt Padikkal, Rajat Patidar, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers (wk), Washington Sundar, Shahbaz Ahmed, Kyle Jamieson, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.
KKR: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Shakib Al Hasan, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Harbhajan Singh, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy.
3:02 PM IST: Virat Kohli wins the toss, and Royal Challengers Bangalore bat first against Kolkata Knight Riders.
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