Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders played the IPL 36th match on the home ground of RCB. However, RCB won the toss and elected to bowl first. With the ball RCB failed to stop KKR at a low target. In 20 overs KKR scored 200 runs with the fall of 5 wickets. Moreover, while chasing the target RCB scored 179 runs with the fall of 8 wickets. Even though Virat Kohli scored fifty in this match RCB failed to reach the target. Below you will get the summary of the match.
Kolkata Knight Riders Innings In IPL 36th Match
Jason Roy and Narayan Jagadeesan opened thw innings for the team. However, both the players tried to give a good start to the team. Jason Roy scored fifty in this IPL 36th match. He scored 56 runs in 29 balls. Vijaykumar Vyshak bowled him.
Moreover, Narayan Jagadeesan scored 27 runs in 29 balls. DJ Willey bowled him. Furthermore, Venkatesh Iyer came to bat at number three. He scored 31 runs in 26 balls. Maxwell caught him on the ball of W Hasaranga.
Nitish Rana came to bat at number four. He also played a good inning for the team. He scored 48 runs in 21 balls. Vijaykumar Vyshak caught him on the ball of W Hasaranga.
Andree Russell came to bat at number five. He got out on 1 run. M Siraj bowled him. Moreover, despite having a good bowling attack RCB failed to stop KKR at a low score. In 20 overs KKR scored 200 runs with the fall of 5 wickets.
With a good batting attack this score is not too big to chase. However, RCB batters didn’t play well in the IPL 36th match.
Kolkata Knight Riders Bowling Scorecard
| Bowlers | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| Vaibhav Arora | 2 | 0 | 22 | 0 |
| Umesh Yadav | 1 | 0 | 19 | 0 |
| Suyash Sharma | 4 | 0 | 30 | 2 |
| Varun Chakravarthy | 4 | 0 | 27 | 3 |
| Andre Russell | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 41 | 0 |
| Nitish Rana | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
Royal Challengers Bangalore Innings In IPL 36th Match
Virat Kohli and Faf du Plessis started the innings for the team. In this match also, Virat Kohli scored fifty. He scored 54 runs in 37 balls. It was a good start for the team. On the other end Faf du Plessis scored 17 runs in 7 balls. RK caught him on the ball of Suyash Sharma.
Moreover, VR Iyer caught Virat Kohli on the ball of Andree Russell. Shahbaz Ahmed came to bat at number three. He is consistently scoring low runs since the start of the season. He got out on 2 runs. Suyash Sharma bowled him.
Glenn Maxwell came to bat at number four. He also got out on 5 runs. This time there was a need for a big inning from the middle order but RCBs batting line up failed in this match. Mahipal Lemror came to bat at number five. He scored 34 runs in 18 balls. D Wiese caught Glenn Maxwell on the ball of Varun Chakravarty and AD Russell caught Mahipal on the ball of Varun Chakravarty.
Dinesh Kartik came to bat at number six. He scored 22 runs in 18 balls. RK Singh caught him on the ball of Varun Chakravarty.
While chasing the target RCB scored 179 runs with the fall of 8 wickets. The middle order of RCB failed to score big runs. KKRs bowling attack was strong and they defended the target very well.
Royal Challengers Banglore Bowling Scorecard
| Bowlers | Overs | Maiden | Runs | Wickets |
| Mohammed Siraj | 4 | 0 | 33 | 1 |
| David Willey | 3 | 0 | 31 | 0 |
| Wanindu Hasaranga | 4 | 0 | 24 | 2 |
| Shahbaz Ahmed | 1 | 0 | 25 | 0 |
| Vijaykumar Vyshak | 4 | 0 | 41 | 2 |
| Harshal Patel | 4 | 0 | 44 | 0 |
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI
Jason Roy
Narayan Jagadeesan(WK)
Venkatesh Iyer
Nitish Rana(C)
Rinku Singh
Andre Russell
Sunil Narine
David Wiese
Vaibhav Arora
Umesh Yadav
Varun Chakravarthy
Suyash Sharma
Royal Challengers Bangalore Playing XI
Virat Kohli(C)
Faf du Plessis
Shahbaz Ahmed
Glenn Maxwell
Mahipal Lomror
Dinesh Karthik(WK)
Suyash Prabhudessai
Wanindu Hasaranga
David Willey
Harshal Patel
Vijaykumar Vyshak
Mohammed Siraj
