IPL 2022 RCB vs KKR Highlights: Hasaranga shines in tense 3 wkt win for RCB

Royal Challengers Bangalore vs Kolkata Knight Riders: 129 was not easy to get for RCB. It required contributions from Willey, Rutherford, Shahbaz, and Dinesh Karthik to overpower Southee and Umesh

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RCB vs KKR Live | Navi Mumbai Weather Report

 

There would be relatively less humidity in Navi Mumbai as compared to Mumbai where the humidity was almost touching 80%. Here, it is predicted to range between 46-66% during the match hours of 07:30 pm to 11:00 pm IST. A lot of dew is expected and the temperature would remain in the early 30s. A captain winning the toss would look to field first without any doubt.

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RCB vs KKR Live | Pitch Report

 

The pitch at the DY Patil Stadium is heaven for batters as was seen in the match between RCB and Punjab Kings. There are plenty of runs to be made and it needs a batter who could spank the balls out of the ground. Even if bowlers tried, they are going to go for runs no matter what.

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RCB vs KKR Live | Ajinkya Rahane all focussed

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Key players for KKR

 

Shreyas Iyer

 

The captain of the Kolkata Knight Riders, Shreyas Iyer holds the key in batting as he has been in terrific form leading up to the IPL 2022. He hit three back to back fifties against Sri Lanka in the T20s and then also scored fifties in the Test series against the same opponent and was unbeaten against CSK in the first match of the IPL. Thus he would be a great asset to his team. 

 

Venkatesh Iyer

 

Find of IPL 2021, Venkatesh Iyer has seen never before heights in the last 8 months and although he did get out early against Chennai Super Kings, the left-hander still has in him the strength and the skills to become the pure match-winner for KKR this season. 

 

Andre Russell

 

Russell the muscleman was unhappy after he was taken to the cleaners by MS Dhoni in the game against CSK. But it is a known fact that whenever he gets angry, he gets fired up to perform better in the next game. 

 

Sunil Narine

 

In four overs against CSK, the magician with the ball, Sunil Narine gave away only 15 runs and did not let the yellow brigade batters get away easily. He would be in a similar role against the RCB and would be tempted to get the wickets of Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohi as soon as possible 

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Big farewell to the legend that was Shane Warne

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Rohan Gavaskar with his Calvin has reached Dy Patil Comm Box

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Key players for RCB

 

Faf du Plessis

The captain of the team, du Plessis led from the front in the previous game scoring a thunderous 88 and taking his side a great total. In this match too, the onus would be on him only be it while batting first or while chasing. 

 

Virat Kohli

 

The other main player will be the former player Virat Kohli who also played well in the last game, scoring in the 40s. He was more than overshadowed by Faf in a more than 100 run stand between the two. In this game too, Kohli needs to take the responsibility of taking two off-spinners of the Kolkata Knight Riders who are more top spinners than off-spinners 

 

David Willey 

 

Willey in The hundred as well as in the T20 Blast of domestic English cricket has batted up the order and is a proven big hitter. He is more of a swing bowler upfront. Thus he should focus on his strengths and bowl with full swing g in his first two overs and then get the keeper up and bowl full wicket t o wicket in middle overs and at the death. 

 

Dinesh Karthik

 

And last but not the least, Karthik struck with a strike rate of more than 200 in the previous game against Punjab Kings and was one of the main reasons for his team reaching 205 instead of 190. In the wicket-keeping, he was fast, but not super quick and that is where he needs to improve so that no chance goes begging 

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Umesh Yadav and Rahane surprise match winners for KKR

 

Two players, Umesh Yadav and Ajnikya Rahane who were discarded as non-white ball payers even in the Indian domestic circuit, forget about international matches, have suddenly sprung up as match-winners for Kolkata Knight Riders and it is now upon the management of the KKR to look after then, their needs, their strengths and weaknesses. 

 

It is certain that these players can win matches in the future too, especially those matches that are going to be crucial from the point of view of qualification and thus they need to be taken care of 

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Let's play bold with this prediction about Kohli

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | What RCB needs to change to win this one

 

First of all, the Royals Challengers Bangalore should ask Anuj Rawat to get going right from the word go as Faf du Plessis would be the person to play the anchor role and play throughout the innings. Then, Virat Kohli also needs to get going right from the word go as there has been a trend where he gets stuck in the middle against spinners. 

 

In the bowling department, Ff need to express what roles have Akash Deep and Shahbaz Ahmed been given in the Playing 11 and how are they going to play those roles because they both looked clueless with their bowling approach, much like fish in a pond which was not aware of its role and getting lost every now and then. 

 

These are the major issues that must be solved for RCB to bounce back

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | ICYMI-The pace of Prasidh Krishna and Trent Boult was on fire yesterday

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Ajinkya Rahane's form solves many problems for KKR

 

The unavailability of Alex Hales and Aaron Finch also not being available initially with Ajinkya Rahane given the opportunity to bat at the opening spot alongside Venkatesh Iyer has loved many problems of Kolkata Knight Riders and Shreyas Iyer. Playing Rahane at the opening spot gave them the freedom to bat Nitish Rana in the middle and thereby minimise the mandatory-ness of playing four foreigners till the time Pat Cummins is not available they can go with three foreign players only 

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | The problems for RCB

 

The Royal Challengers Bangalore lost the match even after scoring 205 runs and it is scary in the sense that their bowlers were just not able to get the balls in the right areas. Mohammad Siraj, Akash Deep and David Willey were all taken for runs initially by Mayank Agarwal and letter by Sri Lankan Rajapakse and West Indian Odean Smith. 

 

Wanindu Hasaranga, the number one ranked T20I bowler was also seen tattering against the left-hander Rajapaksa and Knight Riders have Nitish Rana and Venkatesh Iyer just for that. So it might be yet another tough day for the RCB bowlers if they have not learned from the mistakes that they committed against Punjab Kings

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | The Knights march ahead

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RCB vs KKR Live Updates | Sky Rocketing excitement level