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Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, Indian Premier League 2020 Match 39: As it happened
Boosted by the heroics of Lockie Ferguson, a recharged Kolkata Knight Riders will take on Virat Kohli`s Royal Challengers Bangalore at Abu Dhabi.
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RCB have brushed aside KKR by 8 wickets. The match was lost in the first half of KKR innings itself. 84 was too low a total for any team. Virat Kohli and Gurkeerat Mann wrap it up quickly in the end with the latter scoring two consecutive fours afainst Varun Chakravarthy in the penultimate over. RCB: 85/2 (13.3 Overs)
Kohli and Gurkeerat are making sure that they don't lose their wickets by playing any risky strokes. Just 18 needed from 54 balls now. RCB: 67/2 (11 Overs)
RCB just need to stick around in there. Kohli an Mann are now at the crease. They must not try any rash shots with only 31 needed from 66 balls. RCB: 54/2 (9 overs)
OUT!! Two wickets in three balls!! Devdutt Padikkal is run-out after a terrible mix-up with Gurkeerat Mann. Mann defended the ball and Padikkal came too far down the pitch to go back. RCB: 46/2 (7 Overs)
OUT!! WICKET!! Ferguson removes Aaron Finch. It was an angling in delivery from the Kiwi pacer which took the outside edge from Finch's bat and goes straight to Karthik. RCB: 46/1 (6.2 Overs)
Now this is poor captaincy from Morgan. It's already the end of the first powerplay and we have not seen Lockie Ferguson into the attack. He was the hero in their Super Over victory against SRH and should have been handed the new ball. Meanwhile, Padikkal and Finch are crusing towards the small target. RCB: 44/0 (6 Overs)
13 runs come from Prasidh Krishna's second over. Devdutt Padikkal is elegance personified as he hits a beautiful inside out shot over the top for four. RCB will look for a 10 wicket victory here. RCB: 28/0 (4 Overs)
This is a difficult pitch to bat and even the RCB openers are finding it tough. The good thing is that they are respecting the wicket and not playing any rash shots. 4 runs apiece come from the first two overs bowled by Cummins and Prasidh Krishna. RCB: 8/0 ( 2 Overs)
Aaron Finch, Devdutt Padikkal will open the RCB innings. Pat Cummins to start for KKR. RCB: 0/0 (0 Overs)
KKR have posted just 84/8 from their 20 overs. It was just one way traffic right from the get go. 10 runs come from the final over bowled by Morris, which was the most expensive over the innings. KKR: 84/8 (20 Overs)
KKR are just making sure that they don't lose wickets every over form here. Forget the runs. The result of the match is already a foregone conclusion. Kuldeep Yadav and Lockie Ferguson are now at the crease. Can Lockie Ferguson repeat his heroics with the bat ? Morris and Siraj are operating now. KKR: 68/7 (18 Overs)
OUT!! WICKET!! Eoin Morgan is gone. He was fighting the lone battle and is finally dismissed as he tried to go big against Washington Sundar. It's already game set and match to RCB. Gurkeerat Mann takes an easy catch deep midwicket. KKR: 58/7 (16 Overs)
OUT!! WICKET!! Chahal has his second. Pat Cummins tried to go over long-off but ends up hitting it straight to Padikkal. Cummins made 4 off 17 balls! Yes, you read that right. KKR: 41/6 (13 Overs)
There was another LBW shout against Pat Cummins and he was given out. He was again wrapped on the pads right on the next ball after Karthik's dismissal. Cummins took a review and umpire had to change his decision on the second consecutive ball. Sundar and Chahal are bowling as if they will take a wicket on every ball. KKR: 39/5 (11 Overs)
OUT!! Dinesh Karthik is gone. Chahal removes him LBW. It was a wrong one and wrapped Karthik on the pads. Original decision is not out but Kohli takes the review just in time and the umpire has to change his dicision. KKR: 33/5 (9 Overs)
The experienced duo of Dinesh Karthik and skipper Eoin Morgan are now at the crease. Morgan was batting at 2 off 12 balls before finally freeing his hands against Isuru Udana. Karthik is playing similarly from the other end. KKR: 23/4 (7 Overs)
OUT!! WICKET!! Tom Banton is out caught behind and Mohammad Siraj has his third. Again a beautiful outswinger. Banton pokes at it and pays the price. Have KKR lost the match already ? Siraj has bowled two maidens and picked up three wickets. What a display from him. KKR: 14/4 (4 Overs)
OUT!! HUGE WICKET!! Another one bites the dust. What is going on. Shubman Gill is dismissed by Navdeep Saini. It was a poor shot from Gill. A half-pull it was. He mistimed it completely and the ball went straight up and Morris takes an easy catch. KKR: 13/3 ( 3 Overs)
Siraj cant complete his hat-trick. Still what an over. Two wickets and a maiden. KKR: 3/2 (2 Overs)
OUT!! WICKET!! Mohammed Siraj takes two wickets in two balls! He is on a hat-trick. He bowls out Nitish Rana with a tremendous in-swinger to the left hander. This is going to go down as one of the balls of the tournament. KKR: 3/2 (1.4 Overs)
OUT!! WICKET!! Rahul Tripathi is dismissed caught behind to Mohammad Siraj. It was a beautiful away swinger from Siraj and Tripathi tries to poke at it. The ball takes a thick edge and goes straight to keeper De Villiers. KKR: 3/1 (1.3 Overs)
Shubman Gill and Rahul Tripathi will open the KKR innings against RCB's Chris Morris. KKR: 0/0 (0 Overs)
Royal Challengers Bangalore XI: D Padikkal, A Finch, V Kohli (C), AB de Villiers, GM Singh, C Morris, W Sundar, I Udana, M Siraj, N Saini, Y Chahal
One change for RCB: Mohammad Siraj comes in for Shahbaz Ahmed
Kolkata Knight Riders playing XI: S Gill, R Tripathi, N Rana, T Banton, E Morgan, D Karthik (C), P Cummins, L Ferguson, K Yadav, P Krishna, V Chakravarthy
Two changes for KKR: Tom Banton and Prasidh Krishna come in for Andre Russell and Shivam Mavi respectively
Andre Russell is not playing today because of his injury!!
Kolkata Knight Riders have won the toss and will bat first against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
Hello an welcome to our live coverage of match number 39 of IPL 2020 between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore, that is all set to begin shortly from the Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday (October 21)
RCB have beaten KKR by 8 wickets.
Earlier, KKR won the toss and opted to bat first. KKR could only manage a paltry 84/8.
Lockie Ferguson was the hero for Kolkata, as they defeated SunRisers Hyderabad in a Super Over thriller on Sunday (October 18). Ferguson, playing just his first game of IPL 2020, bowled a magnificent spell, returning figures of 4-0-15-3 from the regular overs.
If that was not enough, he single-handedly won the game for KKR after SRH had levelled their total of 163. He finished the SRH innings in just three ball, picking-up two wickets and giving away as many runs. Chasing just 3 runs to win, KKR finally wrapped up the victory.
KKR were left to wonder as to why Ferguson was not played right from the onset. Also, he was not injured and was just sitting around the bench all this while.
These two sides have already met once this season - hardly ten days back. On that day, RCB thrashed KKR, brushing them aside by a huge 82-run margin. AB de Villiers was the man of the match that day for his brisk knock of 73 (from 33 balls).
However, a lot has happened since then in the KKR camp. It was announced that Dinesh Karthik had handed over the captaincy to Eoin Morgan and then Ferguson happened.
RCB on the other hand are looking like real contenders this season. While skipper Kohli has blown hot and cold so far, AB de Villiers has taken the stage in his absence. His 55 off just 22 balls had rescued a late victory for RCB from the jaws of defeat against Rajasthan Royals.
We expect KKR to come out all guns blazing in this one with a befitting reply to RCB for handing them their biggest loss of the season.
The match as it happened: