Young batter Rinku Singh received a valuable gift from Virat Kohli after Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) thrashed Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) by 7 wickets on Friday night at Chinnaswamy Stadium. The latter played a phenomenal knock of 83 not out off 59 deliveries as the hosts set Shreyas Iyer’s Kolkata a 183 target. But RCB’s toothless attack failed to defend the huge total. Blazing knocks by Sunil Narine and Venkatesh Iyer sailed the KKR ship safely to the shore, handing the team its second consecutive win this season.
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Following the conclusion of the game, the Knights and the Royal Challengers met and greeted each other and exchanged a few tips with each other. Meanwhile, Rinku had an opportunity to visit the RCB dressing room and catch up with Kohli and even received a bat from the maestro.
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Rinku took to Instagram and shared the picture with Kohli. “Thank you for the advice bhaiya and also for the bat,” he captioned the image on his story.
Besides Rinku, Kohli also had little interaction with the younger lot of KKR. After the game, the former RCB captain also met Ankrish Raghunshi before briefly chatting with fast bowler Harshit Rana who happens to be Kohli’s junior from Delhi.
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The match against Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday offered the latest and the largest footprint of this particular weakness as the RCB bowlers failed to check a set of free-hitting batters while defending 183.
The RCB bowlers bowled 19 balls under 120 kmph, but gave away 40 runs and could bag only a wicket. The primary reason for this contrast was the areas where the KKR and RCB bowlers pitched their slower balls as the latter set landed those deliveries predominantly well outside the off-stump or on the leg-side for comfortable pick-ups for batters.
It reflected in their cumulative figures on the night too. The three RCB pacers — Siraj, Joseph and Yash Dayal — leaked 126 runs from nine overs, while KKR’s Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana and Andre Russell conceded 115 runs from 12 overs for four wickets in return.
(With Agency Inputs)
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