Poor show from RCB once again, failed to break the chain of defeat

The match no.17 of IPL 2019 played between KOLKATA NIGHT RIDERS and ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE was a must win match for boys of Bangalore.

Kolkata won the toss and decided to ball first.

RCB once again started with Kohli and Parthiv and made the intentions clear from the very first over by smashing 3 classical boundaries on Prasidha Krishna.

After seeing no help from the pitch, Kartik very smartly brought his spinners into the attack.

But in the 4th over, ball was once again into the hands of a seamer, L Ferguson. Virat smashed 13 runs with 3 boundaries in that very over.

Parthiv on the other side also contibuted well with Virat by smashing boundaries on Chawla.

With the end of first poweplay, RCB stood at 53 for none.

Story in the middle overs (7-15) :

Nitish Rana took the first wicket for RCB in the 8th over by sending Parthiv Patel back to pavilion with a straight ball LBW.

Kohli completed his fifty by smashing a delicate cut shot on P Chawla in the 11th over.

In the 12th over, ABD tried to hit a ball hard but the ball went high up in the air without covering the distance, luckily the catch was dropped by Ferguson.

Bouncing back, ABD hit two boundaries on Naraine in the 13th over and two sixes on Russel in the 14th over.

Nitish Rana was welcomed by Virat with a 4 & 6 in the 15th over and the over was packed up by DE Villiers with a maximum.

Story of the end of first half (16-20):

ABD completed his half century on just 28 balls by smashing a boundary on Prasidha in the 16th over.

Virat smashed a beautiful 6 & 4 on the first two balls of 17th over and thereon completed the 100 runs partnership with ABD.

Kuldeep took the 2nd wicket for KKR by sending Virat back to the pavilion with a fine catch on his own ball in the 18th over.

Virat scored 84 of 49 balls with two 6s and nine 4s.

The 19th over went well from the view of KKR as the off spinner Naraine gave just 6 runs and also took the wicket of the dabgerous AB De Villiers.

De Villiers made 63 out of 32 balls for RCB [5-4s & 4-6s].

The last over was a show from Stoinis with two fours and a six and the scores summed upto 205-3.

All the three wickets down in the first innings were taken by the spinners.

And here the chase begins :

Chris Lynn and Naraine to start for KKR, ball in the hand of Tim Southee.

Lynn was dropped on the 4th ball of the innings by N Saini, though the catch was hard but it touched the hands of Saini and should had been taken.

Start for RCB was once again not good with the ball as the first over gave 17 runs to KKR.

Sunil Naraine, after hitting some fabulous bondaries, gave the catch to Negi in the 2nd over. [10runs 8balls 2-4s]

Uthappa and Lynn played aggressively by smashing boundaries all through the ground  and led the team's total to 59-1 with the end of powerplay.

Between the mid overs (7-15) :

The fire from both the batsman continued and the scores raced upto 92-1 after the end of 9th over.

The 10th over brought something to cheer for RCB as Pawan Negi took the wicket of Uthappa on the 5th ball.

Uthappa scored 33 on 25 balls with six boundaries all round the ground.

Pawan Negi once again striked in the 12th over by sending Chris Lynn back to the pavilion on an individual score of 43 in 31 balls.

KKR reached upto 111-3 after the end of 12 overs.

Nitish Rana continued to hit for KKR and smashed a boundary and a six in the 15th over leading the score to 134-3 after 15.

Decisive last 5 over :

The 4th ball of 16th over brought the wicket of Rana for RCB and then came the muscle man, Russell into the ground.

In the 17th over, Kartik smashed a four and a six on N Saini but later gave the catch to Yuzi Chahal on the boundary line.

Russell smashed three consecutive sixes in the 18th over.

Now, just 30 required from 12 balls.

Score line of 19th over
1 6 6 6 4 6 scores level

Finally KKR won the match with five balls remaining.

Poor show from RCB with the ball, couldn't break the chain of defeat once again.

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