During their last meeting, KKR thrashed Bangalore by 82 runs after bowling them out for 49 – the lowest score in Indian Premier League history.
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Expectation: Clear skies have been forecast on the match and better environment will be work in favor of the game in this Chinnaswamy Stadium and tonight the match is going to be an interesting one.
RCB is now on a five-match losing streak and Gavaskar felt Kohli as their captain has not been able to inspire them.
For Kings XI Punjab, a win will keep them in contention with another four matches after tomorrow. RCB is in the last place with 5 points and KXIP is in 5th place with 8 points.
RCB under Virat Kohli will, however, be only playing for pride with an aim to finish on a winning note in their remaining three matches.
“We started off very well but unfortunately lost some matches in the middle”.
Sunil Narine is having his poorest IPL with the ball. It is Last trip for KXIP to Bangalore for this Season. Needing only 68 runs for a win, Punjab crossed the line in barely 7.5 overs with a half-century in quick time by New Zealand star Martin Guptill.
Vohra played a slog-sweep off Negi effectively, hitting him for a six before trying to repeat the same shot off Yuzvendra Chahal (2 for 21 in 4 overs).
“We got 158 runs on the board and it was on us to take advantage of it, but they put us out of the contest by getting 105 runs in six or seven overs”, he said. They took the game away from Bangalore in the first six overs itself. Now with impending overhaul in sight next year, and with Chris Gayle’s plummeting stocks now, today might just have been the last time Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle – perhaps cricket’s most intimidating T20 triumvirate ever – donned the RCB jersey together at the Chinnaswamy. Will he be able to work his magic against the RCB top three?
However, believe it or not, RCB still have a faint chance of making it to the IPL 2017 playoff stages.
Gavaskar also criticized the way other RCB batsmen got out in the KXIP match. That’s a total of 441 runs at an average of 74 and a strike-rate of 187! Then, Kolkata’s batsmen gave their bowlers a hiding, the kind the Chinnaswamy crowd had witnessed from their own batsmen previous year.
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Kings XI Punjab: The visitors arrive at the contest with a 10-wicket by which it can thrash the Delhi Daredevils in Mohali.
