IPL 2022, RCB vs KKR Live Cricket Score: Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders battle in Mumbai.IPL 2022, RCB vs KKR Live Cricket Score Streaming Online:Royal Challengers Bangalore bowled Kolkata Knight Riders out for 128 in their Indian Premier League match on Wednesday. Andre Russell top-scored for KKR with a 25 off 18 balls. For RCB, Wanindu Hasaranga took four wickets for 20 runs, while Akash Deep and Harshal Patel got three and two wickets respectively.
Royal Challengers Bangaloreย (Playing XI): Faf du Plessis(c), Anuj Rawat, Virat Kohli, Dinesh Karthik(w), Sherfane Rutherford, Shahbaz Ahmed, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj
Kolkata Knight Ridersย (Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana, Shreyas Iyer(c), Sam Billings, Sheldon Jackson(w), Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy
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Willey is gone. Caught by Rana after a ball off Narine. They are still in it. What a big big wicket for the Knight Riders. Can they seal this match? If only they had some more runs on the board. RCB 62/4 after 11 overs.
That's another boundary by Willey. RCB would like that. KKR wouldn't. It's short and Varun gets punished again. Is that a wicket?? Referral for stumping now. No. Not out. Wiley is comfortably inside. 6 off this over. RCB 59/3 after 10 overs.
Umesh Yadav had just taken out an opener with a cracker of a delivery that burst up from back of a length to take the edge when Virat Kohli got ready to face him. It was almost a reprise of the wicket-taking delivery, kicking up outside off stump but Kohli pressed across to punch it so sweetly through covers. On air, in the Kannada commentary, former India player Vijay Bharadwaj oozed “Bennay! Bennay!” (Butter!), perfectly summing up the timing on that shot as the ball slipped away ever so smoothly. Next ball was fuller and straighter, hoping for an lbw, but Kohli wristed it through midwicket for another four.Two balls later, in the first ball of his next over, Yadav went for a screamer from hard length and got to kick it up again outside off stump. This time around though, Kohli seemed more tentative and had a poke at it. Edge and gone. A cracker of a delivery to terminate his former captain’s promising start.
- Sriram Veera
Great timing by Willey to hit a four off Varun. That's slapped through extra cover for four. And that's a 6 to follow. Absolutely pounced on the delivery. One heck of a hit, that one. This time by Rutherford. KKR had a good start but if they only had a few more runs to defend. 12 off this over. RCB 52/3 after 8 overs.
Russell to bowl the last over of the powerplay. Was going good but that's 5 wides. Not the runs you want to give away while defending a low total like this. Willey hits another four to put the pressure right on the KKR bowlers. 11 off this over. RCB 36/3 after 6 overs.
And what do you have here???? That's number 3 down. Umesh Yadav strikes for Kolkata. He is caught behind by Jackson. What an absolutely roaring start from the KKR bowlers. They are not letting Bangalore breathe. RCB 17/3 after 2.1 overs!!!!
ANOTHER!!!! What a start by the KKR bowlers. Southee takes Faf. Opens him up with a bit of late swing, and the leading edge loops to backward point. RCB 17/2 after 2 overs.
“What do you like? Batting or Bowling?” ‘I like both but fielding is my favourite”. That was Wanindu Hasaranga in an interview with Living cricket, a magazine in Sri Lanka. The cricketing gods served him irony. He bowled superbly to take four wickets to turn the knife into KKR but near the end of the innings, he had two mishaps. First, he was at short third man when the ball was slashed towards him. He got a bit of bad bounce and turn and the ball shot right through him and the bowler Harshal Patel gave him an anguished look. An over later, he was at deep backward point when Umesh Yadav sliced a square drive towards him. He should have expected the ball to turn from that slice but he didn’t and over ran the ball which turned and plummeted to his left to the boundary.
- Sriram Veera
Kohli comes to the middle and starts like a house on fire. 2 back to back boundaries as he takes it to Umesh Yadav. Gorgeous shots. RCB 10/1 after 1 over.
GONE!!!! Anuj Rawat departs. Exactly what Kolkata needed. Lovely delivery by Umesh Yadav. Big blow for the Royal Challengers Bangalore. RCB 5/1 after 0.4 overs.
First there was Khaleel Ahmed breaking into the Cristiano Ronaldo pose after picking up a wicket. Now, Sri Lanka leg-spinner Wanindu Hasaranga channeled his inner Neymar. After winkling out Shreyas Iyer, he stood statue-like in his pose, his fists by the side of the face, like a boxer taking a guard, his middle and index fingers curled in like a rap artiste. It’s one from Neymar’s wide repertoire of post-goal celebrations. This one goes by the name Hang Loose celebration, a dance move from Brazilian song Tá Tranquilo, Tá Favorável”. The Brazilian forward first unfurled during the Barcelona days and it later went on to become his most iconic style of celebration. Like Neymar, Hasaranga has many ways to celebrate wickets—the fist pump, the fist punch, both accompanied by a roar of joy. He is no football fan, but sometime last year, he stumbled on Neymar’s Hang Loose and decided to give it a spin of his own. An ersatz version perhaps, but so full of joy and fervour. The big question now: Who is gonna do a Messi to complete the loop?
- Sandip G
Huge sixxx by Umesh Yadav. These two are taking it to the RCB bowlers. Who would have thought!!! Full-toss and Yadav mows this flat over long-on. That's another four to follow!!! And that's cleaned him up in the next ball. Yadav departs. KKR all out for 128 runs.
Even after 14 years of international cricket and a total of 458 international matches, Virat Kohli gets a few butterflies in his stomach while settling himself underneath a skier. Harshal Patel bowled a slower bouncer to Sam Billings, forcing the batsman to mistime his flat-batted pull. Kohli positioned himself at long-on, his eyes wide open and waiting for the ball to come down. Once the catch was completed, he let out an expulsion of relief, as Billings's contrite face captured frustration.
It was a relatively simple catch to start with. So why did Kohli still look a bit nervous? It happens to everyone actually, even the most experienced ones and the very best. The late ML Jaisimha, the former India opener who was considered a safe catcher in the deep, had a theory - "loneliness". "The ball does all sorts of things in the air. But when you position yourself underneath a skier, you are the loneliest man on the field, with thousands of people watching. It's not easy," he used to say.
Cricket, played with 11 players per side, can be a lonely game.
- Shamik Chakrabarty
Another fine edge and Varun has got a four for KKR. That's gone to third man. Oh no no no!! That's a rare misfield by the RCB fielder. That's raced to te boundary. KKR 118/9 after 18 overs.
17th over starts. Siraj back in the attack. Will this be the last over of this innings? A nick off the bat and good placement albeit unintentionally by Yadav for a 4. 17 overs gone. KKR 110/9.
Two fielders at short third man, no deep point, no deep cover and then denying him the length to bend the knee and slice for the easy boundary. Harshal managed to get Russell out of his comfort hitting space, dug the scrambled seam wide and into the surface, the ball held up and Russell edged a swish to the keeper. Not for the faint hearted this set-up from Harshal.
Hasaranga takes another one. That's his fourth. KKR are in a world of trouble. Southee holes one out to the Bangalore captain. The end is nigh for the KKR innings. KKR 101/9 after 14.3 overs.
EDGED AND GONE!!!! Russell is gone. Harshal strikes at the opportune moment. That's gobbled up by Karthik. Huge wicket!!! KKR 99/8 after 14 overs.
Even at seven-down, Russell has got RCB thinking hard. After the first slogged six off Shahbaz, they brought in deep square leg and sent cover back. The ball after that, they swapped the men again. Makes zero difference as Russell powers the next one over wide long off. 16 off this over. KKR 99/7 after 13 overs.
And now Billings departs. Harshal Patel strikes. Miscued the pull and that has landed right in the grasp of Virat Kohli. That's their 7th wicket down. Kolkata unravelling fast!!! KKR 83/7 after 11.4 overs.