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Skipper Virat Kohli smashed 84 off 49 deliveries but his knock went in vain as Royal Challengers Bangalore slumped to their fifth successive defeat in the Indian Premier League on Friday.
Batsman Andre Russell with his 13-ball 48 stole Kohli’s thunder as Kolkata Knight Riders chased down their target of 206 with five balls to spare at Bangalore’s M Chinnaswamy Stadium. They won by five wickets.
The India captain, with 5,110 runs, surpassed Chennai Super Kings batsman Suresh Raina’s record of 5,086 runs to top the all-time batting chart in the Twenty20 tournament.
But his team are approaching the IPL’s most dismal record held by Delhi Capitals (earlier Delhi Daredevils) of six straight losses at the start of the 2013 edition.
The burly Russell, a top all-rounder from West Indies, took the game away from Bangalore with one four and seven sixes.
With KKR needing 66 from the last four overs, Russell hit the ball to all parts of the ground to take apart the Bangalore bowling.
“I am always confident. When I went out, DK (skipper Dinesh Karthik) was saying we need to watch a few balls,” said Russell. “We needed to get 68 from 28 balls, and that doesn’t happen everyday. We just had to put our bodies on the line. That’s the nature of T20 cricket.”
Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 206 for 5 (Russell 48*, Lynn 43, Negi 2-21) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 205 for 3 (Kohli 84, de Villiers 63) by five wickets.
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06/04/2019
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