IPL 2021 Eliminator: KKR beat RCB by 4 wickets, to meet DC in Qualifier 2

Sunil Narines fourwicket haul and 26run knock helped Kolkata Knight Riders KKR defeat Royal Challengers Bangalore RCB by four wickets in their Eliminator encounter of the ongoing Indian Premier League IPL 2021 at the Sharjah Cricket StadiumWith this defeat Virat Kohlis road as captain in the cashrich league has ended as he had earlier announced that he would be stepping down as the leader of RCB after the ongoing edition KKR will now face Delhi Capitals in Qualifier 2 on Wednesday at the Sharjah Cricket StadiumChasing 139 KKR got off to a steady start as openers Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer put on 41 runs for the first wicket However this stand was finally broken by Purple Cap holder Harshal Patel in the sixth over of the innings Rahul Tripathi 6 was trapped in front by Yuzvendra Chahal and KKR was reduced to 532 in the 7th overRCB remained in the contest as the bowlers did not give many loose balls and as a result Harshal got his second wicket of the match as he dismissed Iyer 26 in the 12th over of the innings With this wicket Harshal equalled Dwayne Bravos record of taking most wickets in a single IPL seasonSunil Narine then came out to bat and he played a quickfire knock of 26 runs and it changed the game in KKRs favour RCB managed to dismiss Narine 26 Dinesh Karthik 10 and Nitish Rana 23 in quick succession but in the end KKR managed to register a winEarlier Sunil Narine returned with figures of 421 as Kolkata Knight Riders KKR restricted Royal Challengers Bangalore RCB to 1387 Opting to bat first RCB got off to a good start as openers Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal put on 49 runs inside the first six overs However KKR was able to get the breakthrough in the 6th over as Lockie Ferguson dismissed Padikkal 21Hero from the game against Delhi Capitals Srikar Bharat 9 failed to leave a mark with the bat and RCB was reduced to 692 in the 10th over Kohli and Glenn Maxwell put on 19 runs for the third wicket but to make matters worse for RCB Kohli 39 departed in the 13th over as he was bowled by Sunil Narine Soonafter AB de Villiers 11 was also bowled by Narine and RCB was left at 1024 in the 15th overNarine continued with his wickettaking spree as he went on to dismiss bighitting Maxwell 15 and RCB was left in all sorts of troubles in the backend In the final three overs RCB struggled to get some big hits and in the end the side had to settle with a score of under the 140run markBrief Scores RCB 1387 Virat Kohli 39 Devdutt Padikkal 21 Sunil Narine 421 vs KKR 1396 Sunil Narine 26 Shubman Gill 29 Harshal Patel 219Also Read IPL 2021 When focus is on just winning performance reaches another level says Virat KohliThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever