KKR vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2021: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 9 wickets

Wanindu Hasaranga has come into the attack for RCB. Can he provide a big breakthrough on his IPL debut?

Chasing 93 to win and KKR have knocked off 20 off the first two. Surely, there is no pressure of a big target and it's visible in the way Gill and Iyer have started this innings.

And the tall New Zealander is welcomed with a handsome six from Gill. The batsman gives himself room, does a little shimmy down the wicket and absolutely whacks it for four. Almost carried the distance.

Width on offer and the debutant crashes the ball through off side for a four. Follows it with another bullet cover drive. His IPL career is up and running and in some style. 10 from the first over from Mohammed Siraj.

Shubman Gill and debutant Venkatesh Iyer have walked out to open. RCB need something special to pull this one off, and if that doesn't come, it should be smooth sailing for KKR.

Lowest totals for RCB in IPL

49 v KKR Kolkata 2017

70 v RR Abu Dhabi 2014

70 v CSK Chennai 2019

82 v KKR Bengaluru 2008

87 v CSK Port Elizabeth 2009

92 v KKR Abu Dhabi 2021 *

Varun Chakravarthy - Kudos to the whole bowling unit, it was a very disciplined bowling performance. I'm happy to do whatever the coach and the captain want me to do, be it bowling the first over or come back later. We did work a lot even during the last phase, credit goes to the team management. The plan was to attack the stumps, the ball was doing a bit initially, now it has flattened, so we just stuck to our plans

Royal Challengers Bangalore bowled out for 92 in 19 overs. It has been a perfect bowling performance from KKR - and good day for players in purple.

GONE! Ferguson cleans up Harshal with a beauty of a yorker. RCB are nine wickets down for 83.

RUN OUT! Harshal Patel hits a ball from Varun Chakravarthy straight, bowler got a hand on it – and ball hit stumps. Kyle Jamieson was outside his crease. He is gone. RCB 76/8

FOUR! Harshal Patel cut on a full delivery to get a welcome boundary for RCB. IT has come after a long long time.

Sachin Baby's painful stay comes to an end. RCB are seven wickets down. Easy catch for Nitish Rana. Soft dismissal. RCB 66/7

GONE! FIrst ball duck for Wanindu Hasaranga and Chakravarthy is on a hat-trick.

GONE! Varun Chakravarthy gets rid of Glenn Maxwell, who was frustrate and tried to get into the shot, but goes way too early. RCB 63/5

Nothign comes off the freebie. RCB 60/4 in 11 over

We are halfway through RCB's innings - and they have reached 54/4 after 10 overs. Need to fire in the final 10 overs now.

GONE! Andre Russell has cleaned up ABD with a perfect yorker. What a beauty of a delivery this is! RCB 52/4

Glenn Maxwell has not been timing the ball well early on. He was almost caugth in the previous ball, and there was another catch attempt at backward point.

GONE! Padikkal nicks one to Karthik and Ferguson gets the big wicket. RCB 4½ at end of powerplay.

FOUR! Slacked away, using the pace of the ball, minimal movement, using the ground. What a beautiful wristy shot from Padikkal.

FOUR! Bharat goes aerial - and that will race to the boundary. Found the gap, and lovely wrist work. RCB 35/1 in 5 overs.

Time for a bowling change. Sunil Narine comes into the attack for KKR.

FOUR! Devdutt Padikkal gets one on his leg, and he has flung his bat for a boundary towards deep backward square leg.

CAUGHT! But that may have been a NO BALL as well. So Praisdh Krishna has to bowl another FREE HIT.

Prasidh Krishna goes away with four dot balls in the over – but NO – the last one was a NO BALL. So that means a FREE HIT to RCB!

FOUR! Wow, that os some cracking shot. Padikkal bowls it on the pads, and Padikkal lifted it over bowler's head - and cracks for a boundary. 

GONE! Prasidha Krishna has trapped RCB captain Virat Kohli. UMpire has given him out. Virat Kohli has asked for a review. Three reds. Kohli is GONE!

Varun Chakravarthy gave just four runs in the first over. Here comes Prasidha Krishna on the other end. KKR going for youngsters to get early wickets.

Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal coming out to bat for Royal Challengers Bangalore. Varun Chakravarthy starts the attack for KKR.

AB de Villiers: The humidity is right up there. The sun is about to set, that helps a lot. Gets someone like me excited. I am super excited just to join the guys, with Virat's 200th game today, we are looking forward to get there on the park. We have a nice feel for each other, the top five really enjoy batting together. We've got Dev (Devdutt Padikkal) there as well, very talented youngster and coming through the ranks. I think there's more than enough talent. It's a matter of getting out there and getting the job done and getting some runs on the board. I wouldn't say I didn't do anything. No competitive cricket, no international cricket, you get to a certain age or stage in your career where it becomes a lot more mental and there's hard work behind closed doors which no one knows of. Some gym work, some treadmill work, it's fun to get ready for a tournament like this. You can't just arrive here not doing anything, you got to be 100% ready and try and be as good as you can.

Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat, Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers(w), Wanindu Hasaranga, Sachin Baby, Kyle Jamieson, Mohammed Siraj, Harshal Patel, Yuzvendra Chahal

Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi,  Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna

KKR captain Eoin Morgan - Looks really good, it should stay pretty similar for the entire length of the game. Hoping that the performances will change in this phase of the tournament. It's been challenging, but we are happy to be back here.

"Grass covering is to hold the surface together. We think it is going to slow down as the game progresses. More special than the 200th game is this uniform: we promised that we would be playing for the Covid warriors, with these jerseys being auctioned for people."

He also confirmed two debutants for RCB: KS Bharat and Hasaranga

Virat Kohli wins toss, RCB bat first against KKR.

RCB are sporting blue jerseys as they are paying tributes to warriors worldwide.

We have some team news and it's from the KKR camp - Venkatesh Iyer has been handed out his maiden cap and will slot in the middle-order probably.

“It is very very hot, around 40 degrees. Lovely lush green grass at the outfield. There is a little bit of grass, it's even - so, it will have a tennis ball bounce, little bit of movement and will assist the pacers for a while. The average score batting first is 165. There is a lot of wind coming from one side of the ground.”

– Nick Knight and Matthew Hayden on broadcasting show

KKR's Andre Russell: "We need to win games for sure, but we're not stressing ourselves, taking it one game at a time. Once we keep going through each hurdle, we will think about the other one. There is pressure, but you can't put too much on yourself. You can do whatever is in my control, be it with the bat, ball or the field. I just want to contribute to the team. Definitely, I would want to contribute (even if I miss out with either bat or ball), sometimes you will have good games with both bat and ball, but that doesn't happen everyday. It's very hot and humid. We're trying to get accustomed to the heat, we did have some day games in the Caribbean (Premier League), but it wasn't as hot as it is here."

Wondering what the pitch is like from yesterday? We will have all the answers for you in just about 5 minutes – stay tuned!