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RCB Remains Bottom Of The Table As KKR Beat Them By 5 Wickets

Mumbai: It was do or die game for for Royal Challengers Bangalore against KKR, losing the toss it was clear that RCB had to bat first.

Opening pairs Virat Kohli and Parthiv Patel played fearlessly as skipper was back in form scored 84 runs of just 49 balls, Patel was playing well but failed to show his class as he lost his wicket to part time bowler Nitish Rana.

Inform batsman Ab De Villiers came out and helped Kohli to set 200 par score against inform team KKR. Virat lost his wicket after an VIRAT performance, De Villiers played fabulous innings scored 63 of 32 balls buy couldn’t make it through as he lost his wicket in second last over of the innings to Sunil Narine.

It was small cameo by Marcus Stoinis as he scored 28 runs of 13 balls, and helped his team to set a huge target of 206 runs of 120 balls.

For KKR Narine took 1 wicket in his 4 over spell, following Piyush Chawla and Nitish Rana took 1 wicket each.

Chasing the target of KKR opener Sunil Narine failed to play well as he lost his wicket at early stage of the innings just scored 10 runs of 8 balls.

It was good partnership between Chris Lynn and Robin Uthappa of 65 runs, meantime Pawan Negi striked for his team and took Robin’s wicket.

The game was in RCB’s hand but, it was again power hitter game by Andre Russell scored 48 runs of just 13 balls with the strike rate of 300+ and KKR registered their third match of the season.

With this RCB remains bottom of the table without any match point as they lost 5 matches consistently.

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