KKR vs RCB Highlights, IPL 2023: Varun, Shardul power Kolkata Knight Riders to 81-run win vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

A short delivery by Harshal, from outside off. Shardul pulls it with much aplomb over midwicket for a one-bounce four! ALSO GETS HIS MAIDEN IPL FIFTY!

A flat delivery by Bracewell and Shardul takes it on aggresively to hammer it over long-on for a six! Then, he follows it up with a smack over deep midwicket for another six! BACK-TO-BACK!

A legbreak delivery by Karn, and Shardul slams it into the ground and it goes past the deep midwicket fielder for a four!

Akash tried to go for the yorker but falls short. Shardul tells him thanks and then launches it over wide long on for a six!

KKR: 113/5 (13)

First, Akash sends a short of a length delivery, into the pads. Shardul flicks it beautifuly, and gets it fine, past the outfield fielder and fine leg for a four! Then he smacks him over extra cover for another four!

A legbreak delivery by Karn and Shardul inside edges it for a four!

A short delivery by karn, and Russell tries to go for a six but can only send it for an easy catch to long-off!

HATTRICK CHANCE!

Russell c Kohli b Karn 0 (1)

A length delivery by Harshal, down leg side. Rinku teaches him a lesson and slams it over short fine for a four!

A legbreak delivery by Karn, middle and leg. Rinku guides it to short fine for a single.

KKR: 79/3 (9.5)

Gurbaz sweeps this delivery by Ten Doeschate from outside off, and it flies for a six to bring up his fifty! WHAT A KNOCK!

Bracewell overpitches it and Gurbaz is there to punish him! He clobbers it over wide long on for a smashing six!

A poor delivery by Shahbaz and Gurbaz sees it coming wide outside off. He sweeps it with much aplomb between deep square and deep midwicket for a four!

A short delivery by Akash Deep, Gurbaz pulls it fine with ease and does what he does best to send it for a six! Also a no-ball! 7 runs!

A good delivery, and Mandeep goes for the swing, but misses as it lands on middle and off. It seams away to hit the off stump! HAT-TRICK CHANCE!

ANOTHER ONE FOR WILLEY! HATTRICK CHANCE!

Mandeep b Willey 0 (1)

A length delivery by Willey, towards middle. Iyer goes on the backfoot, but is beaten and it hits the middle stump! OUT!

OUT! EARLY BREAKTHROUGH FOR RCB!

Iyer b Willey 3 (7)

In the third delivery, Siraj sends a short ball, wide. Gurbaz hammers it through point for a four! Then he nicks it over the stumps for another, followed by hammering it past short third to make it three fours in three balls!

14 off this over in total!

Back of a length delivery by Willey, and Iyer guides it off the hip to deep square leg for a single.

WHAT WAS THIS! After two cracking deliveries, Siraj sends this down the leg side and even the wicketkeeper can't do anything! 5 wides!

Gurbaz and Iyer to open for KKR. Meanwhile, Siraj to bowl the first over for RCB!

After winning the toss, Du Plessis said, "Going to have a bowl. Bit of a misunderstanding with the accent there (confusion at the toss). Was dew last night. Hoping it will get skiddy in the second innings. That's a long way away. Today is a completely new game. Really motivated to put in a good performance. Forced change with Topley being injured. Willey comes in."

Meanwhile, Rana stated, "Was looking to bowl as well because of the dew factor. Anukul is replaced by Suyash."

KKR: Mandeep Singh, Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Tim Southee, Umesh Yadav, Varun Chakaravarthy

RCB: Virat Kohli, Faf du Plessis(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Glenn Maxwell, Michael Bracewell, Shahbaz Ahmed, David Willey, Karn Sharma, Harshal Patel, Akash Deep, Mohammed Siraj

RCB have won the toss and opted to field vs KKR!

Kohli was in hot form in RCB's opening win vs MI, smacking an unbeaten knock of 82 run soff 49 balls, packed with six fours and five sixes.

Toss is upcoming and is scheduled for 7:00 PM IST! STAY TUNED FOLKS!

GT is currently on top, followed by PBKS in second place with the same number of points off two games, but lower net run rate.

RCB are third, followed by RR in fourth. LSG are fifth, with CSK in sixth, KKR in seventh place. Meanwhile, DC are eighth, MI are ninth and SRH are tenth.