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IPL 2017: Virat Kohli's RCB crack at Eden Gardens

Updated on: 24 April,2017 06:53 AM IST  | 
Arup Chatterjee | sports@mid-day.com

Kolkata Knight Riders send Kohli’s men crashing to 82-run defeat

IPL 2017: Virat Kohli's RCB crack at Eden Gardens

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Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli reacts during match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in Kolkata yesterday. Pic/AFP
Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Virat Kohli reacts during match against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in Kolkata yesterday. Pic/AFP


Kolkat: Put into bat, Kolkata Knight Riders set the formidable Royal Challengers Bangalore line-up a tame target of 132 despite another blitzkrieg from Sunil Narine. But the Knights, egged on by a capacity crowd of over 67,000, came back to show that it wasn't over yet, Nathan Coulter-Nile and Umesh Yadav producing fiery opening spells to reduce the visitors to 24 for four before the reply was five overs old with both Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers back in the pavilion and Chris Gayle in the midst of a sedate start.


When the burly West Indian fell, caught by Coulter-Nile off Chris Woakes as he tried to break the shackles just after the power play, the hosts were convinced they had their opponents by the scruff of their neck.KKR ended up winning by 82 runs.


Delayed start
The match delayed by half-an-hour after a Nor'wester, KKR lost a toss they would've been desperate to win for more reasons than one. In addition to the comfort of chasing and avoiding bowling under the dew, there was this small business of putting a total on board beyond the reach of a daunting batting line-up. That desperation did surface at times, never more blatantly in the pre-empted charge that saw Yusuf Pathan stumped down leg-side. Narine provided another ominous start, clobbering Samuel Badree for three boundaries and a six in the very first over.

Super Narine
Kohli promptly replaced the leg-spinner with the left-arm seam of Sreenath Aravind, but Narine lifted him over the infield for two more boundaries as the third over produced 14 runs. All that would fizzle out soon. Gautam Gambhir, ill at ease against the pace and disconcerting bounce of Mills, managed a six over third-man but was soon claimed by the left-arm seamer as he tickled one to the 'keeper. The early momentum did have KKR scoring 65 in the power-play but the tide was turning by then. Arvind had conceded just four runs in his second over and Narine had departed in the sixth, caught on the mid-wicket rope as he pulled Stuart Binny. Badree was back immediately, trapping Robin Uthappa and going on to bowl three impressive overs on-the-trot. Manish Pandey, Suryakumar Yadav and Chris Woakes held promises briefly before the RCB bowlers were all over them.

Wickets fell at regular intervals and the pressure to put a decent total on the board kept mounting.

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