An authoritative Kolkata Knight Riders bossed Royal Challengers Bangalore from the beginning to the end to record a convincing nine-wicket win in their IPL match on Monday. Showing serious intent after their mediocre outing in the first phase of the league earlier this year, the Knight Riders bowlers fired in unison to bundle out Royal Challengers Bangalore for a paltry 92. Then, the opening duo of Shubman Gill and debutant Venkatesh Iyer played some breathtaking shots and made light work of the chase of 93, completing the formality with as many as 10 overs to spare. Shubman Gill was dismissed for 48, but the damage was already done. Venkatesh Iyer finished things off in style. Varun Chakravarthy starred for KKR with the ball after RCB captain Virat Kohli won the toss and elected to bat. Chakravarthy picked up three wickets for 13 in his four overs. Andre Russell also picked up three wickets, while Lockie Ferguson picked up two wickets. Prasidh Krishna also picked the all-important wicket of Kohli.
Chennai beat Mumbai by 20 runs
Chennai Super Kings (156/6) beat Mumbai Indians (136/8) by 20 runs to once again become table-toppers in the ongoing edition of the Indian Premier League. Chasing 157 to win, MI lost the plot when Kieron Pollard and Krunal Pandya were dismissed in quick succession to leave them at 94/6. Before that, Deepak Chahar had Quinton de Kock out LBW for 17 to give CSK their first breakthrough and followed it with with wicket of Anmolpreet Singh, whom he clean bowled. Shardul Thakur then struck in his first over getting the big wicket of Suryakumar Yadav. In the first innings, Ruturaj Gaikwad hit his 6th IPL 50 and finished on 88 off 58 balls as CSK posted 156/6. Jasprit Bumrah, Trent Boult and Adam Milne picked up two wickets each. Gaikwad added 81 runs with Ravindra Jadeja before Bumrah broke the partnership with Jadeja's wicket. MI struck in the first over of the innings with Boult dismissing Faf du Plessis for a duck. Then, Milne and Boult dismissed Moeen Ali and Suresh Raina in the next two overs to reduce CSK to 7/3. It later became 24/4 in the Powerplay with Milne getting MS Dhoni's wicket. Ambati Rayudu had to retire hurt after getting hit on the elbow.
