Kohli played 59* runs for RCB
IPL 2025, KKR vs RCB: The first match of the 18th season of IPL was played on 22 March today between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore. Let us know that in the opening match played at the historic Eden Gardens ground, RCB defeated KKR by 7 wickets in a one -sided manner.
At first, RCB bowled brilliantly and stopped KKR for just 174 runs, and then easily achieved the target by losing three wickets in 16.2 overs. For RCB, Virat Kohli played a match winning innings of 59* runs in 36 balls.
IPL 2025 KKR vs RCB, match condition
If you tell you in detail about the match, RCB decided to win the toss and bowl. After this, while batting first, KKR got the first blow in the first over. Josh Hazlewood showed the path of the pavilion at a score of 4 runs to opener Quinton Discuke.
But after this, Sunil Narayan (44) and Ajinkya Rahane (56) gave a strong start of 103 runs for KKR for the second wicket, but after the two were dismissed, the team could not score a big score. Venkatesh Iyer 6, Rinku Singh 12 and Andre Russell were dismissed for 4 runs. The entire team scored a total of 174 runs in 20 overs at the loss of 8 wickets.
On the other hand, after talking about the bowling of the RCB team, after losing 60 runs in the powerplay, the bowlers returned in a brilliant manner. Veteran Krunal Pandya took 3 wickets by giving 29 wickets, while Josh Hazlewood got 2 wickets. Apart from this, Yash Dayal, Rasikh Dar and Suyash Sharma got 1-1 wickets.
Subsequently, when RCB came out to chase the target of 175 runs from KKR, he easily achieved the target by losing three wickets in 16.2 overs. For the team, Phil Salat played a brilliant innings of 56 runs, while Devdutt Padikkal contributed 10 and Rajat Patidar contributed 34 runs. So at the same time, Virat Kohli in the end remained unbeaten after scoring 59* and Liam Livingstone 15*.
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Rajat Patidar Sprinkled His Elegant Touch to the Chase With a Quick-Fire 34 (16) 💥@Rcbtweets Moving closer to the target 🎯
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