IPL: Good Knight RCB
IPL: Good Knight RCB: Sunil Narine gave glimpses of his ‘old mystery’ with the ball and then topped it up with three monster sixes as Kolkata Knight Riders’ four-wicket victory in an exciting ‘Eliminator’ dashed Virat Kohli’s dream of winning an IPL trophy while leading Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Virat Kohli’s last game as Bangalore’s captain ended in heartbreak.
KKR will now meet Delhi Capitals in the second qualifier on Wednesday to decide Chennai Super Kings’ rivals for the title clash on October 15.
I have tried my best to create a culture here where youngsters could come in and play with freedom and belief, something I have done with India as well. I have given my best. I don’t know how the response has been, but I have given 120% to this franchise every time, which is something I will now do as a player. It is a great time to regroup and restructure for the next three years with people who will take this ahead. Virat Kohli, RCB Captain
Narine, who had to remodel his action after coming under the scanner due to a suspect action multiple times, singlehandedly eliminated Bangalore with bowling figures of 4/21. He then produced a crucial 26-run knock off 15 balls that made a tricky chase of 139 slightly easier in the end. KKR got home with two balls to spare.
Kohli, who was captaining RCB for the last time, did make a contentious decision by opting to bat on a sluggish surface which also offered turn.
Narine (4/21) sent RCB’s biggest guns back in the dug-out as Kohli, AB de Villiers and Glenn Maxwell had no answer to his turning deliveries under pressure situation.
IPL: Good Knight RCB
With Varun Chakravarthy (0/20) not conceding a single boundary and Shakib Al Hasan (0/24) also keeping the batsmen on a tight leash, the KKR’s spin troika gave away 65 runs with four boundaries in 12 overs.
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Brief Scores: RCB: 138/7 (V Kohli 39, D Padikkal 21; S Narine 4/21, L Ferguson 2/30); KKR: 139/6 (S Gill 29, V Iyer 26, S Narine 26, N Rana 23; Y Chahal 2/16, H Patel 2/19).
