RCB vs KKR IPL 2024 Highlights: Kolkata thrash Bengaluru by 7 wickets

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Dagar bowling the 17th and Iyer smashes the fifth ball over square leg. That's the winning runs and KKR have won this with 19 balls remaining. A first win for any team away from home in this IPL and it has come in the most emphatic fashion. RCB will now probably see that 182 was far from being par today, Kohli could have scored a few more runs than 83 in the 59 balls he faced, ending up with a strike rate of 140.67. To make matters worse, KKR's openers came in and practically took the game away in the powerplay. We saw a role reversal today for KKR's West Indies legends. Andre Russell did nothing with the bat but his four overs was as important as anything for KKR in this game. Sunil Narine went at 10 an over but smashed 47 off 22 in an innings that flattened RCB. KKR would also be very happy with the fact that Venkatesh Iyer fought his way to 50 off 30 balls despite a back issues. They would also be hoping that said back issues doesn't hinder his season in any way now. That's it from us for today, join us tomorrow with LSG hosting PBKS.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: There are 24 balls remaining and KKR need... seven to win. Shreyas Iyer hits a four off the fifth ball of that over and then a single. Iyer moves to 32 off 22, Rinku Singh on two off as many.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 176/3 in 16 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: What an extraordinary innings this has been from Venkatesh Iyer. He reaches his fifty in just 29 balls, Shreyas finishes off the 15th over with a six. Then Venkatesh holes out at cow corner off the first ball of the 16th from Yash Dayal.

Venkatesh c Kohli b Yash Dayal 50 (30)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 167/3 in 15.1 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And well, this game is pretty much over as a contest, unless RCB take a wicket of almost every alternate ball for the next five overs.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Just five runs off the 12th over but who cares about that, KKR need just 46 to win off 48 balls. RCB have been completely blown out of the park here, they need wickets and they need them fast.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 137/2 in 12 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer smashes 16 runs off the first five balls of the 11th but the last shot has caused him some trouble. Alzarri Joseph at the receiving end, the first ball is a dot, then Venkatesh pulls the second ball, which short, over cow corner. Then he guides the next delivery to Dayal at deep third man but the ball goes right through his feet! A dot ball after that and Venkatesh pulls Joseph over fine leg. But he then goes down clutching his back. Physio runs out to check on him. The batter picks himself up eventually and the last ball is another bouncer. Venkatesh pulls and it takes a top edge, flies over the wicketkeeper to the boundary for another four. That is 20 runs off the 11th over, Venkatesh on 32 off 15, Shreyas on 11 off 9.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 132/2 in 11 overs, need 51 to win from 54

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer with some luck off the fourth ball of the 10th over, with Yash Dayal unable to get to his shot in time running in from fine leg. Then some more luck as Cam Green's knees hits the ropes while he retrieves the ball and it becomes a four. Two runs off the last ball and that makes it eight rtuns off the over, Shreyas on 11 off nine, Venkatesh on 12 off 9.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 112/2 in 10 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Green was placed there by Du Plessis just before this delivery and he ends up taking the catch. Prophetic field placement there from the RCB captain. Impact player Vijaykumar Vyshak gets the wicket. Fifth ball of the eighth is short and angling into him and Salt goes for the pull, it is hit straight to Green at deep square leg. Now it will be the struggling Iyers - Shreyas and Venkatesh, for KKR.

Salt c Green b Vyshak 30 (20)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 92/2 in 7.2 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Mayank Dagar bowls the first over of spin in the seventh and he strikes straightaway. Yorks Narine on off stump third ball and the West Indian is cleaned up. Dagar celebrates but then KKR won't be too unhappy, Narine has done the job and more.

Narine b Dagar 47 (22)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 86/1 in 6.3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Oh Yash Dayal and Mohammed Sirah have been handed a hiding here. Salt gets off strike first ball and then Narine gets away with a thick edge second ball which races past the short third man fielder. Then Dayal goes short for the third ball and Narine was totally taken by surprise. However, he pulls it eyes closed and it soars into the stands! Another six off the next ball, this time straight down the ground and Narine with his eyes wide open, he knew exactly what he was doing. The fifth ball goes for four leg byes and then finally a dot. Narine is on 47 off 20 balls, Salt on 28 off 16.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: The ploy to send Narine up top has worked today. He smashes the fifth ball of the fifth from Siraj over square leg and then takes two off the last ball to get to 31 off just 15 balls. Salt on 27 off 15.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 64/0 in 5 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Narine hits a couple of big ones off fellow West Indian Alzarri Joseph. He runs two off the first ball, lets go the second expecting it to be called wide but the umpire keeps his hands down. Narine then misses the third ball and then deposits the fourth over long on into the second tier. Then he clears long-on again off the last ball and Narine has raced to 22 off 11 balls. Salt on 17 off 7. This is a good start for KKR.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: KKR 46/0 in 3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Phil Salt makes an aggressive start, smashing two sixes and a four against Siraj in the first over as Kohli watched the proceedings from the dugout. 18 runs were scored in the opening over.

KKR 18/0 in 1 over vs RCB (182/6)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Sunil Narine will once again opener for KKR, alongside Phil Salt. Mohammed Siraj opens the attack for RCB.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: “Pretty happy with it (total), we saw how the pitch was playing, the off-cutters obviously working, hopefully it stays the same in the second innings. We have to wait and see. (Batting at three) I love playing there. You've got a bit more freedom in the last couple of overs in the powerplay. It's always nice to bat with Virat, he looked beautiful again today. There's certain bowlers in their team that I have never faced before. Obviously he has faced some 10 or 20 times, the experience is always amazing. They had a pretty good blueprint, cutters into the wicket - holding and not bouncing even, we have to wait and see if the dew comes in.”

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Virat Kohli has batted through the innings and finished with a score of 83 off 59. A strike rate of 140.67. He has done better than that in his career and he would know it. The batters run two off the first ball of that last over, then Kohli whips the second ball over cow corner for his fourth six of the innings. A single after that and then Karthik picks Starc over fine leg. Another single and then the batters try to run one more off the last ball. But Karthik couldn't make it back on time, he falls for 20 off eight balls, which is increasingly becoming his typical score in T20s. KKR need 183 to win.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: DK Manages to score off Russell and some death over goodies at last for RCB. Kohli gets off strike first ball, DK then manages to get under the fourth ball and goes over long off. Then he smashes the last one over long off for the second six of the over.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 166/5 in 19 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Five runs and a wicket, in fact. Excellent 18th over from Harshit Rana, it was his last of the spell. It has been exactly two overs now since RCB's last boundary. Russell to bowl the 19th, Kohli on strike, he has scored 74 in 65, Karthik has made one in one.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 153/5 in 18 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: RCB desperately need an impetus, they have been kept quiet and Kohli hasn't been able to find the boundary at all. Anuj Rawat perishes in the third ball of the 18th to Harshit Rana and that brings out Dinesh Karthik.

Rawat c Salt b Harshit Rana 3 (3)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 151/5 in 17.3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Russell takes all the pace off the from the third ball of the 17th, Patidar heaves across the line and gives Rinku Singh catching practice at deep midwicket. That's 100 IPL wickets for Russell.

Patidar c Singh b Russell 3 (4)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 144/4 in 16.3 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And Virat Kohli is still batting, which is never good news for any opposition side whether it be in the IPL or T20 cricket or even in ODIs. For he has a strike rate of 201.61 in the death overs. He has moved to 67 off 48 at the end of the 16th over, Patidar at the other end on two off two. Russell to bowl the 17th.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 141/3 in 16 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Kohli pieces the gap between between deep square leg and deep midwicket off the fourth ball of that over. Then runs a tight two, finished off with a desperate dive that saved him. A single off the last ball and Kohli will stay on strike for the 16th over which will be bowled by Starc. He is on 62 off 43, Patidar at the other end on one off one.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 134/3 in 15 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Rinku Singh doesn't drop 'em. Narine returns for the 15th over and Maxwell hits the first ball straight to backward point. He has done the damage though and this is a good platform for RCB to work on.

Maxwell c Rinku b Narine 28 (19)

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 124/3 in 14.1 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: And this is in an over where he is walloping the bowler! Oh Sunil Narine, KKR, what in the world is happening? Harshit Rana returns for the 14th, Maxwell smashes the third ball over long-on for a six. Then he loses his shape entirely as he swings across the line for the next one. It takes a top edge to short third where Narine runs back but the ball slips right through the gap between his hands and the body. He chases it to the boundary and the batters run two. Then Maxwell places the next one between backward point and short third and then a single moves him to 28 off 18. Kohli on 53 off 39.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 124/2 in 14 overs

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score 2024, Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Oh, KKR are going to regret this. Maxwell goes for a biggie off Narine second ball of the 13th, it flies high into the night sky above Bengaluru and seemed destined to fall into Ramandeep's hands. But he spills it and Maxwell, of all people, gets a life. The batters ran a single there, then four more singles and that makes it five off the over. Maxwell on 14 off 13, Kohli 52 off 38.

RCB vs KKR IPL Live Score: RCB 109/2 in 13 overs