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RCB vs KKR Scorecard, Match 31, IPL 2021
Result · Sep 20 2021, Mon - 07:30 PM (IST)
RCB92
KKR94/1
Kolkata Knight Riders won by 9 wickets
CRR:9.4
Player Of The Match
Match Info
| Series: | IPL |
| Date: | Sep 20 2021, Mon - 07:30 PM (IST) |
| Country: | United Arab Emirates |
| City: | Abu Dhabi |
| Venue: | Sheikh Zayed Stadium |
| Toss: | Royal Challengers Bangalore won the toss and elected to bat. |
| KKR Playing XI: | Venkatesh Iyer, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan (c), Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Sunil Narine, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna |
| RCB Playing XI: | AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli (c), Glenn Maxwell, Yuzvendra Chahal, Harshal Patel, Sachin Baby, Kyle Jamieson, Srikar Bharat (wk), Wanindu Hasaranga, Mohammed Siraj, Devdutt Padikkal |
- ● Kolkata Knight Riders have lost their last four matches against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the IPL, their longest such run against this opponent; however, KKR did enjoy a five-match winning streak prior to this.
- ● Kolkata Knight Riders have registered just one victory in their last six IPL matches, with that solitary win coming against Punjab Kings on April 26th in a game where Rahul Tripathi (41) and Eoin Morgan (47*) starred with the bat.
- ● Royal Challengers Bangalore are currently on a five-match losing run in IPL games held in the UAE, their longest such streak there; the last time they won an IPL game in the UAE however was against KKR (October 2020).
- ● AB de Villiers (RCB) hit a competition high 146 runs in the death overs (16-20) before the 2021 IPL was suspended, 73% of those runs coming from boundaries; of the 17 players to score 50+ runs at the death only Ambati Rayudu (287) had a better strike rate than de Villiers (243).
- ● Before the 2021 IPL season was suspended in May, Andre Russell (KKR) had the best bowling strike-rate of any bowler to have bowled a minimum of 10 overs (8.6); he also induced the highest false shot rate (42%) of any such bowler, but also had the worst economy rate (11.4).