IPL 7 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore Report

49th match of IPL season 7 has been played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata. Sunil Narines's 4 wickets in his 4 overs followed by RV Uthappa's superb inning of 83* runs led Kolkata to win over Bangalore by 30 runs.

Earlier, Bangalore won the toss put Kolkata into bat first. Kolkata started inning with RV Uthappa and skipper G Gambhir. Gambhir departed early scoring just 4 runs. Next batsman MK Pandey also could not stood in middle for long and went back to pavillion for 13 runs. YK PAthan unfortunately run out scoring 22 runs of 13 balls. Byu, RV Uthappa and Shakib Al Hasan took the charge and played fabulous innings for Kolkata. Shakib played super quick inning of 60 runs of just 38 balls with 3 massive sixes and 5 fantastic fours. RV Uthappa on other end also played very good inning of 83 runs and remained not out till end. During his inning he lifted Purple Cap fron GJ Maxwell as he score highest runs in this season. Kolkata put huge totals of 195 runs for Bangalore at the end of 20 overs.

Following huge totals of 196 runs, Bangalore could not made batter start and lost CH Gayle early scoring just 6 runs. YV Takwale and skipper took the charge and played good cricket inntially. But, both of them got out in Narine's over and Bangalore were in trouble. Takawale made 45 runs and skipper contributed 38 runs of 31 balls. Yuvraj Singh and Ab de Villiers came in middle to shaped up Bangalore inning. Narine again strikes and sent back both of them in very next over. Other lower order batsmen could not bared the higher required run rates and Bangalore lost the match by 30 runs.

Thus, Kolkata registered well needed win and got important 2 points and Bangalore dis-appointed with bad form of batsmen and got 0 point.