Kolkata Knight Riders won the 36th game of IPL 2024 against RCB, which took place on April 21 at Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Notably, this loss almost knocked RCB out of the marquee event, as they had to work really hard to make it to the top four of the IPL 2024. Speaking about the game here, it was RCB skipper Faf du Plessis who won the toss and invited KKR to bat first in the game.
Notably, after being sent to bat first, KKR had an amazing start as Phil Salt hammered 48 runs from just 14 balls, featuring seven fours and three sixes and a solid strike rate of 342. However, after him, Shreyas Iyer, Rinku Singh, and Andre Russell went on to hammer runs to post a massive total of 222/6 in the given 20 overs.
Meanwhile, Virat Kohli was out for just 18 runs while Faf du Plessis hammered just 7 runs. However. Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar showed their form and scored over 100 runs to reach near the total. In addition, Dinesh Karthik and Karn Sharma tried extremely hard to chase down the total but suffered the loss by just one run, which also most likely kept them out of the tournament.
You don't feel that you have time to settle down and ball: Faf du Plessis
"It was crazy, rules are rules, Virat and I thought that the ball was higher than the waist (on Kohli's dismissal), I guess they measured from the popping crease, one team thinks it's high, the other doesn't. That's how the game goes at times. Then the partnership, it was magnificent (on the Jacks-Patidar partnership), but when you don't win too many games, some sort of panic sets in and the Narine over was game-changing, You don't feel that you have time to settle down and bat (on the evolution of the IPL this season),"Â Faf du Plessis said after the loss.
Here are the fan's reaction after the win:
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