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Kolkata's second consecutive win in IPL-2024
Published - 29-MAR-2024 18:25 IST | Updated - 15-APR-2024 4:58 IST

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have achieved their second consecutive win in the Indian Premier League-2024 (IPL). The team defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 7 wickets in the 10th match of the current season. This is the host team's first defeat this season. Earlier, the hosts had won 9 consecutive matches.
Kolkata achieved the target of 183 runs for 3 wickets in 16.5 overs on Friday at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. Shreyas Iyer returned unbeaten after scoring 39 runs and Rinku Singh returned unbeaten after scoring 5 runs. While Venkatesh Iyer played important innings of 50 runs, Sunil Narine scored 47 runs and Phil Salt played 30 runs. Yash Dayal, Mayank Dagar and Vijaykumar Vaishakh got one wicket each.
Batting first, RCB scored 182 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Virat Kohli from RCB played an inning of 83 runs on 59 balls. He hit 4 fours and 4 sixes. Scored 52nd fifty in the league. Apart from him, Cameron Green contributed 33 runs and Glenn Maxwell contributed 28 runs. Andre Russell and Harshit Rana got 2-2 wickets for Kolkata.
KKR came second in the points table
With this victory, Kolkata Knight Riders team has come second in the points table of the current season. The team has 4 points in its account after two matches. Chennai is at the top of the table and Rajasthan is at third place. Both of them have also scored 4-4 points.
Kolkata Knight Riders won 19 balls earlier. KKR captain Shreyas Iyer hit a winning six on the fifth ball of the 17th over, with this the team registered its second consecutive win. Earlier the team had defeated SRH.
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