KKR vs RCB HIGHLIGHTS, IPL 2025: Virat Kohli guides RCB to 7-wicket win in Kolkata
IPL 2025 HIGHLIGHTS: Virat Kohli scored a 36-ball 59 as RCB got an opening win at Eden gardens.
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Royal Challengers Bengaluru pick up a decent opening 7-wicket win against Kolkata Knight Riders as they chased down 175 within 17 overs on the night at the iconic Eden gardens in Kolkata on March 22. Virat Kohli's 36-ball 59* runs were crucial as he gyuided the side to a comfortable victory in the end. Earlier, the hosts KKR setting a 175-run target for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru in the opener at the iconic Eden Gardens in Kolkata. Despite of a 100-run partnership between Sunil Narine and skipper Ajinkya Rahane, it was a quick RCB turn around that saw the hosts lose quick wickets and eventually fail to produce the first 200+ total of the season. Krunal Pandya proved to be crucial with the ball as his 3 wickets in the middle overs broke the momentum for KKR and put the visitors on top again. Josh Hazlewood made a great return to action as he too picked up 2 wickets at either ends of the innings.
KKR 1st innings scorecard:
RCB 2nd innings scorecard:
The opening ceremony at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata began with superstar Shah Rukh Khan announcing the start of the cricket carnival in front of a packed stadium. The show began with the Queen of melody Shreya Ghoshal taking the stage and singing multiple songs and finally ending with 'Vande Mataram' where the crowd joined as well. RCB skipper Rajat Patidar won the toss and decided to bowl first against Kolkata Knight Riders. Bollywood actress Disha Patani continued from there as she displayed her dance moves on the famous songs from her movies. She was also then joined by famous Punjabi singer Karan Aujla who made the crowd dance to his tunes. At the end of the ceremony, SRK called the 'GOAT' Virat Kohli on stage and asked him about the new generation of players who are ready to take on the world by storm. Shah Rukh Khan also called one of the youngsters, KKR's RInku Singh to get his thoughts on the same.
| Kolkata Knight Riders | ||||||||||||||||
| Inning174-8 (20 ov) CRR:8.70 | ||||||||||||||||
| Batter | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||||||||||
| Quinton de Kock (WK) | c J Sharma b J Hazlewood | 4 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 80 | ||||||||||
| Sunil Narine | c J Sharma b RD Salam | 44 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 169.23 | ||||||||||
| Ajinkya Rahane (C) | c RD Salam b K Pandya | 56 | 31 | 6 | 4 | 180.65 | ||||||||||
| Venkatesh Iyer | b K Pandya | 6 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 85.71 | ||||||||||
| Angkrish Raghuvanshi | c J Sharma b Yash Dayal | 30 | 22 | 2 | 1 | 136.36 | ||||||||||
| Rinku Singh | b K Pandya | 12 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 120 | ||||||||||
| Andre Russell | b S Sharma | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 133.33 | ||||||||||
| Ramandeep Singh | Not out | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 66.67 | ||||||||||
| Harshit Rana | c J Sharma b J Hazlewood | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 83.33 | ||||||||||
| Spencer Johnson | Not out | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100 | ||||||||||
| Extras | 6 (b 0, Ib 2, w 4, nb 0, p 0) | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 174 (8 wkts, 20 Ov) | |||||||||||||||
| Yet to Bat | Varun Chakaravarthy | |||||||||||||||
| Fall of Wickets | ||||||||||||||||
| 4-1(Quinton de Kock 0.5),107-2(Sunil Narine 9.6),109-3(Ajinkya Rahane 10.3),125-4(Venkatesh Iyer 12.1),145-5(Rinku Singh 14.6),150-6(Andre Russell 15.4),168-7(Angkrish Raghuvanshi 18.5),173-8(Harshit Rana 19.5) | ||||||||||||||||
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | NB | WD | ECO | |||||||||
| Josh Hazlewood | 4 | 0 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5.5 | |||||||||
| Yash Dayal | 3 | 0 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8.33 | |||||||||
| Rasikh Dar | 3 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11.67 | |||||||||
| Krunal Pandya | 4 | 0 | 29 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 7.25 | |||||||||
| Suyash Sharma | 4 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 11.75 | |||||||||
| Liam Livingstone | 2 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | |||||||||
| Royal Challengers Bengaluru | ||||||||||||||||
| Inning177-3 (16.2 ov) CRR:10.84 | ||||||||||||||||
| Batter | R | B | 4s | 6s | SR | |||||||||||
| Phil Salt | c SH Johnson b V Chakaravarthy | 56 | 31 | 9 | 2 | 180.65 | ||||||||||
| Virat Kohli | Not out | 59 | 36 | 4 | 3 | 163.89 | ||||||||||
| Devdutt Padikkal | c R Singh b S Narine | 10 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 100 | ||||||||||
| Rajat Patidar (C) | c R Singh b V Arora | 34 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 212.5 | ||||||||||
| Liam Livingstone | Not out | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 300 | ||||||||||
| Extras | 3 (b 0, Ib 2, w 1, nb 0, p 0) | |||||||||||||||
| Total | 177 (3 wkts, 16.2 Ov) | |||||||||||||||
| Yet to Bat | Jitesh Sharma,Tim David,Krunal Pandya,Rasikh Dar,Josh Hazlewood,Yash Dayal | |||||||||||||||
| Fall of Wickets | ||||||||||||||||
| 95-1(Phil Salt 8.3),118-2(Devdutt Padikkal 11.4),162-3(Rajat Patidar 15.3) | ||||||||||||||||
| Bowler | O | M | R | W | NB | WD | ECO | |||||||||
| Vaibhav Arora | 3 | 0 | 42 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 14 | |||||||||
| Spencer Johnson | 2.2 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.29 | |||||||||
| Varun Chakaravarthy | 4 | 0 | 43 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 10.75 | |||||||||
| Harshit Rana | 3 | 0 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10.67 | |||||||||
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6.75 | |||||||||
IPL 2025: KKR vs RCB playing 11:
KKR playing 11: Quinton de Kock(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy. Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia
RCB playing 11: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt(w), Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal. Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Subs: Devdutt Padikkal, Abhinandan Singh, Manoj Bhandage, Romario Shepherd, Swapnil Singh
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10:46 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: RCB get opening win!
RCB culdn't have asked for a better start as they get a 7-wicket win courtesy of a superb knock by Virat Kohli right from the start.
10:39 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Rajat Patidar departs!
Patidar loses his wicket as Vaibhav Arora gets his first of the night.
10:35 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 18 from 30 needed!
RCB running towards the target as they now need just 18 runs from the last 5 overs.
10:28 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 8 runs from the over!
Over Summary 0 0 2 1 4 1; RCB 127/2 after 13 overs; Virat Kohli 54 (31) Rajat Patidar 4 (6)
Harshit continues the attack and concedes 8 runs from his over.
10:18 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 10 runs from the over!
Over Summary 1 1 6 1 1 0; RCB 115/1 after 11 overs; Virat Kohli 47 (27) Devdutt Padikkal 9 (8)
Varun continues the attack and concedes 11 runs from his over.
10:15 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 7 runs from the over!
Over Summary 1 0 0 1 1 4; RCB 104/1 after 10 overs; Virat Kohli 38 (23) Devdutt Padikkal 7 (6)
Narine continues the attack and concedes 7 runs from his over.
10:12 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Partnership broken!
Over Summary 4 0 W 0 0 1; RCB 96/1 after 9 overs; Virat Kohli 36 (20) Devdutt Padikkal 1 (3)
Varun into the attack and concedes 5 runs from his over
10:09 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Salt departs!
Phil Salt loses his wicket as Varun takes him out after his fifty.
10:07 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 5 runs from the over!
Over Summary 1lb 0 1 1 1 1; RCB 91/0 after 8 overs; Virat Kohli 36 (20) Phil Salt 51 (28)
Narine into the attack and concedes 5 runs from his over.
10:03 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 50 for Salt!
Over Summary 0 4 1 0 1 0; RCB 86/0 after 7 overs; Virat Kohli 34 (17) Phil Salt 50 (25)
Varun continues the attack and concedes 6 runs from his over.
9:58 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 5 runs from the over!
Over Summary 0 1 0 1 2 1; RCB 80/0 after 6 overs; Virat Kohli 29 (13) Phil Salt 49 (23)
Harshit into the attack and concedes 5 runs from his over.
9:52 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 17 from the over!
Over Summary 6 6 0 1 0 4; RCB 75/0 after 5 overs; Virat Kohli 25 (9) Phil Salt 48 (20)
Johnson continues the attack and concedes 17 runs from his over.
9:47 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Salt goes berserk!
Over Summary 1 2 4 6 4 4; RCB 58/0 after 4 overs; Virat Kohli 11 (4) Phil Salt 44 (19)
Chakaravarthy into the attack and concedes 21 runs from his over.
9:43 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: Salt goes big!
Over Summary 4 6 1 4 1 6; RCB 37/0 after 3 overs; Virat Kohli 11 (4) Phil Salt 26 (14)
Vaibhav continues the attack and concedes 22 runs from his over
9:38 PM
IPL 2025 LIVE SCORE UPDATES: 5 runs from the over!
Over Summary 0 0 4 0 0 1; RCB 17/0 after 2 overs; Virat Kohli 6 (2) Phil Salt 9 (10)
Johnson into the attack and concedes 5 runs from his over.
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First Published: Mar 22 2025 | 5:12 PM IST
