2024-04-23 09:46:03
The target, however, was big. But Royal Challengers Bangalore put up a great fight to chase that target. Chasing 222 runs, they finally stopped at 221 runs. They lost by only 1 run after a tight fight.
After losing the wickets of Virat Kohli (18) and Faf du Plessis (7) within 35 runs, Bangalore turned around with the bat of Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar. For the third wicket they both added 102 runs off just 48 balls. Jacques Feren scored 55 runs in 32 balls with 4 fours and 5 sixes in the head of 137 runs. Patidar also returned in the same over. He played an innings of 52 runs off just 23 balls with 3 fours and 5 sixes.
After that, Bengaluru reached 202 after losing 8 wickets in 19 overs with the bat of Suyash Prabhudesai (24) and Dinesh Karthik (25).
21 runs were needed to win in the last over. Karn Sharma hit three sixes off Mitchell Starc’s first four balls to reach the target. Bengaluru needed 3 runs to win the last two balls. But Karn got out on the fifth ball scoring 20 runs off 7 balls with 3 sixes. 3 runs were needed from the last ball to win it. Super over if 2 runs. But Kolkata won by 1 run when Mohammad Siraj and Loki Ferguson were run out while taking 2 runs.
Andre Russell took 3 wickets with 25 runs in 3 overs with the ball. This all-rounder who scored 27 runs unbeaten with the bat was also Man of the Match. Harshit Rana and Sunil Narine took 2 wickets each.