Royal Challengers Bangalore yet again fall short of an IPL trophy and the difference was due to a fabulous bowling effort by Sunil Narine.
Sunil Narine
The day belonged to Sunil Narine as he ended up with figures for 4/21. RCB won the toss and started well with Kohli and Padikkal scoring at a brisk rate scoring more than 50 in the first 5 overs. The first wicket to fall was Padikkal at 59 and then on the brakes were well put by the KKR bowlers, especially Narine.
Narine had a field day with none of the RCB batsman able to have a go at him. Kohli was clean bowled attempting a slog of Narine with the score at 88/3 and RCB lost their way from there. Narine’s wickets included Virat Kohli, AB deVilliers, and Glenn Maxwell. That tells the story of the struggle by the Royal Challengers Batters and in the end, RCB couldn’t put up enough runs on the board to defend as they could manage only 138 in the 20 overs.
Kolkata Knight Riders Chase
KKR also started strongly with Shubman Gill and Venkatsh Iyer adding 41 for the first wicket before Shubman got out. Even though runs were hard to get by , KKR were still in the run chase. Sunil Narine again showed why he is the best allrounder in the business by scoring a brisk 26 off 15 balls. KKR got a slight scare when Mohd, Siraj took 2 wickets in the 17th over but the asking run rate was hovering around six and the experience of Morgan and Shakib ensured that KKR move on to the next eliminator where they face Delhi Capitals.
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KKR Top Players in IPL 2021
| Player | Inns | Runs | TS | 100s | 50s | Avg | SR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rahul Tripathi | 14 | 383 | 74 | 0 | 2 | 29.46 | 142.37 |
| Shubman Gill | 15 | 381 | 57 | 0 | 2 | 25.40 | 121.72 |
| Nitish Rana | 14 | 370 | 80* | 0 | 2 | 33.63 | 122.92 |
| Venkatesh Iyer | 8 | 265 | 67 | 0 | 2 | 37.85 | 123.25 |
| Dinesh Karthik | 13 | 214 | 40 | 0 | 0 | 26.75 | 133.75 |
| Andre Russell | 9 | 183 | 54 | 0 | 1 | 26.14 | 152.50 |
| Eoin Morgan | 14 | 129 | 47 | 0 | 0 | 12.90 | 100.78 |
| Pat Cummins | 5 | 93 | 66 | 0 | 1 | 31.00 | 166.07 |
| Sunil Narine | 8 | 60 | 26* | 0 | 0 | 10.00 | 136.36 |
| Player | Inns | Overs | Wks | BBI | 4W | Avg | Econ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varun Chakravarthy | 15 | 60.0 | 16 | 3/13 | 0 | 24.00 | 6.40 |
| Sunil Narine | 12 | 48.0 | 14 | 4/21 | 1 | 22.00 | 6.41 |
| Lockie Ferguson | 6 | 22.0 | 12 | 3/18 | 0 | 11.83 | 6.45 |
| Prasidh Krishna | 10 | 38.3 | 12 | 3/30 | 0 | 29.25 | 9.11 |
| Andre Russell | 8 | 19.0 | 11 | 5/15 | 0 | 17.09 | 9.89 |
| Shivam Mavi | 7 | 24.1 | 9 | 4/21 | 1 | 19.33 | 7.20 |
| Pat Cummins | 7 | 26.5 | 9 | 3/24 | 0 | 26.33 | 8.83 |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 6 | 19.0 | 4 | 1/1 | 0 | 31.50 | 6.63 |
| Tim Southee | 3 | 12.0 | 3 | 2/26 | 0 | 31.66 | 7.91 |
| Venkatesh Iyer | 3 | 7.3 | 3 | 2/29 | 0 | 21.33 | 8.53 |
Harshal Patel
Harshal Patel, who is the leading wicket-taker in this year’s IPL ended up with 32 wickets matching Dwayne Bravo’s record of most wickets in a single edition of the IPL. Bravo had also picked up 32 wickets in 2013 while representing Chennai Super Kings.
Harshal had already broken the record for most wickets by an Indian in one IPL season. The seamer went past Jasprit Bumrah who had taken 27 wickets in the 2020 edition.
Brief Scores
RCB – 138/7 (Virat Kohli – 39, Devdutt Padikkal – 21; Harshal Patel 2/19, Chahal 2/19)
KKR – 139/6 (Shubman Gill -29, Sunil Narine – 29; Sunil Narine 4/21)
Kolkata Knight Riders won by 4 wickets