IPL 2020, RCB vs KKR: Mohammed Siraj Shines As Bangalore Thump Kolkata By 8 Wickets At Abu Dhabi

IPL 2020, Kolkata vs Bangalore match today in UAE: Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bat first against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Mohammed Siraj bowled a sensational spell to literally destroyed KKR's top-order her with wickets of Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana and Tom Banton without conceding a single run to become first bowler to bowl two maidens in an IPL game

Royal Challengers Bangalore attained a dominating 8-wicket victory over Kolkata Knight Riders at Abu Dhabi on Wednesday to reach second spot in the IPL 2020 points table. RCB won the match with 39 balls remaining. Coming down to chase KKR's paltry target of 85 runs, Aaron Finch and Devdutt Padikkal gave RCB a good start but the two departed in a quick succession before Virat Kohli joined Gurkeerat Mann, who was promoted at the number 3 position today. Virat Kohli and Gurkeerat Mann remained unbeaten and made sure their team secured a second spot in the points table. No one had expected KKR to score just 84/8 after winning their last game in a Super Over. Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bat first against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Mohammed Siraj bowled a sensational spell to literally destroyed KKR's top-order her with wickets of Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana and Tom Banton without conceding a single run to become first bowler to bowl two maidens in an IPL game and restrict Kolkata Knight Riders to 84/8 at Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. Today was the first time since April 2012 that Kolkata were playing with both Sunil Narine and Andre Russell missing in the Playing XI. No bowler apart from Siraj has attained this feat in IPL before. The RCB speedster also took 3 wickets in his first spell off his first 3 overs to literally destroyed KKR's top-order. Not only this, Siraj pushed the KKR team to the backfoot with 2 wickets in 2 consecutive balls in an over. Brief scores: KKR 84/8 wkts in 20 overs (Eoin Morgan 30, Lockie Ferguson 19; Mohammed Siraj 3/8) lost to RCB 85/2 in 13.3 overs (Devdutt Padikkal 25, Gurkeerat Mann Singh 21; Lockie Ferguson 1/17) by eigth wickets Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Devdutt Padikkal, Aaron Finch, Virat Kohli(c), AB de Villiers(w), Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Washington Sundar, Chris Morris, Mohammed Siraj, Isuru Udana, Navdeep Saini, Yuzvendra Chahal Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Shubman Gill, Tom Banton, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Rahul Tripathi, Pat Cummins, Lockie Ferguson, Kuldeep Yadav, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy