West Indies Sunil Narine celebrates taking the wicket of Australia’s Aaron Finch throughout their One-Day Worldwide Cricket match in opposition to Australia in Sydney, Australia, Friday, Feb. 8, 2013.
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Man-of-the-Match Sunil Narine and Andre Russell supported with a brace of wickets, inspiring Kolkata Knight Riders victory in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets to stay unbeaten within the Indian Premier League on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium.
Selecting to bowl first, KKR restricted RCB to 182 for six off their 20 overs with opener Virat Kohli top-scoring with an unbeaten 83 from 59 balls and Cameron Inexperienced and Glenn Maxwell chipping in with 33 and 28 respectively.
Medium-fast bowler Russell took two for 29 from 4 overs, together with the important thing wicket of Inexperienced.
RCB suffered the early lack of Faf du Plessis for eight within the second over however Kohli got here in to get well his aspect, posting 65 for the second wicket with Inexperienced, 42 for the third wicket with Maxwell and 31 for the sixth wicket with Dinesh Karthik (20). Kohli struck 4 fours and 4 sixes, reaching his 50 off 36 deliveries.
In reply, KKR reached their goal with 19 balls to spare, with Venkatesh Iyer belting 50 off 30 deliveries and Narine putting 47 off 22 deliveries.
Captain Shreyas Iyer on 39 and Englishman Phil Salt with 30 additionally chipped in with key knocks as KKR received their second recreation, whereas RCB had their second defeat in three outings.
Narine, who completed with one for 40 from his 4 overs, lashed two fours and 5 sixes as he impressed an 86-run opening partnership off 39 balls with Salt.
Each gamers fell 9 balls aside with six solely runs added, however Venkatesh took management of the chase, placing on 75 for the third wicket with Shreyas, which put KKR on the road of victory.
