IPL 2024 Point Table After RCB vs KKR Match: With Venkatesh Iyer’s half-century and Sunil Narine’s stormy innings, Kolkata Knight Riders registered their second consecutive win of this season by defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore by seven wickets at their home in the Indian Premier League on Friday. With its victory, Kolkata has become the first team to win a match away from home in the current season. This is Kolkata’s sixth consecutive win on the home ground of Bengaluru. Since 2015, Kolkata Knight Riders have not lost any match at the Bengaluru M. Chinnaswamy Stadium. With this victory, Kolkata has come to second place in the points table. Whereas with this defeat, Bengaluru has dropped out of the top-4 and has reached the sixth position.
After the 10th match of IPL 2024, Chennai Super Kings is at the first position in the points table. While Rajasthan is at third place and Hyderabad is at fourth place. Chennai, Kolkata and Rajasthan have four points each, but Chennai Super Kings are at the forefront on the basis of better net run reach. After this, Punjab Kings are at fifth place and Gujarat Titans are at seventh place. Delhi is at eighth place, Mumbai is at ninth place and Lucknow is at the last place in the points table.
If we talk about the match, Kolkata won the toss and decided to bowl first. After this, Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 182 runs for six wickets thanks to Kohli’s unbeaten inning of 83 runs in 59 balls with four sixes and four fours. Kohli also made a partnership of 65 runs with Cameron Green (33) for the second wicket and 42 runs with Glenn Maxwell (28) for the third wicket. Dinesh Karthik finally scored 20 runs in eight balls with the help of three sixes.
Kolkata Knight Riders, who came to chase the target of 183 runs from Bengaluru, got a stormy start from the opening pair of Sunil Narine and Philip Salt. Salt started off Siraj with two sixes and a four in the first over while Narayan hit two sixes on Alzarri Joseph in the third over. Narayan and Phil Salt added 86 runs in 6.3 overs for the first wicket. Phil Salt scored 30 runs in 20 balls with the help of two sixes and two fours. Whereas Narayan played an inning of 47 runs in 22 balls with the help of two fours and five sixes.
Kolkata Knight Riders scored 85 runs without losing any wicket in the power play, which is the highest score of any team in the first six overs in the current season. Apart from this, for Kolkata Knight Riders, Venkatesh Iyer played an inning of 50 runs in 30 balls with the help of three fours and four sixes. Whereas Kolkata captain Shreyas Iyer scored unbeaten 39 runs in 24 balls with the help of two fours and two sixes. Kolkata Knight Riders have improved their run rate by winning the match in just 16.5 overs.