Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) beat Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 7 wickets in the first match of the IPL. KKR gave the RCB a target of 175 runs with the help of captain Ajinkya Rahane's fifty runs on Saturday. In reply, Virat Kohli scored an unbeaten 59 off 22 balls, giving his team a victory.
Many Moments and Records were seen at Eden Gardens Stadium. With this match, Kohli completed 400 matches in his T20 career. For this, the BCCI honored Kohli with Momento.
In the first over of the match, Suyash left D Kock's catch. Later a fan entered the field and Kohli felt on his feet
Read the best moments and records of RCB VS KKR match …
1. Shah Rukh, Kohli and Rinku danced in the opening serum
Virat Kohli dancing with Shah Rukh Khan.
Bollywood stars danced with Shah Rukh Khan, Virat Kohli and Rinku Singh in the opening Ceremony. Kohli danced on the song “Main robbery …” with Zoom Jo Pathan … and Rinku Singh Shah Rukh.
Shreya Ghoshal gave the first performance of Seremon. Bollywood actress Disha Patani danced on the Malang-Mallang song. Punjabi singer Karan Ajla sang the song of the mahole pirate. Disha Patani also performed on Ajla's song.
In the Opening Ceremony, singer Shreya Ghoshal sang Bollywood songs. Actress Disha Patani performed.
Punjabi singer Karan Ajla sang.
2. BCCI gave Momento to Kohli
BCCI President Roger Binny honored Virat Kohli by giving 'IPL 18' Momento. Virat has played for 18 seasons from 18 seasons of IPL for RCB.
3. Jay Shah started the match by playing the bell
ICC Chief Jay Shah and former cricketer Sourav Ganguly started the match by playing the bell.
At the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata, ICC Chief Jay Shah started the match by playing a bell. Josh Hazelwood scored the first over from Bangalore.
4. Four in the first over, catch drops and wickets In the first over of IPL-18, 3 Moments were seen, including a four, a drop catch and one wicket.
- Quinton de Kock opened the team's account by hitting a ball on Josh Hazelwood.
- On the second ball, Suyash Sharma left his catch on a short midwicket.
Suyash Sharma left De Cock's catch on 4 runs.
- Then D Cock was also out on the 5th ball of the over. Wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma was caught.
After missing the catch, De Cock was out on the second ball.
5. Bells adjacent to Naren's bat fell, a hit wicket was not given
Sunil Narayan's bats fell.
Rasik Salam threw a bouncer on the fourth ball of the 8th over. Which the umpire declared a wide ball. Here wicketkeeper Jitesh Sharma appealed for a hit wicket. At the time of playing the ball, Naren's bat fell off the stumps. The Bengaluru team made an appeal for a hit wicket, causing the umpire to declare it not out.
6. A fan entered the field and Virat Kohli felt on foot
Fan Virat Kohli felt on foot
Kohli completed his half -century by scoring fours on the last ball of the 13th over. Here a fan entered the field and touched Virat Kohli's feet. In Harshit's over, Kohli hit the cover on the cover. After which a fan entered the field.
Security guards carrying fans out of the field.
Records now …
Facts:
- Sunil Narayan completed his 100 sixes in the IPL. He became the third player to achieve this record for Kolkata. Andre Russell has hit the highest 206 six for the team, followed by Nitish Rana's number which has hit 107 sixes.
1. The third Indian to play Kohli 400 T20 matches Virat Kohli became the third Indian to play 400 T20 matches. Earlier, Rohit Sharma (448 matches) and Dinesh Karthik (412 matches) have achieved this. Kohli has scored 12925 runs in 400 matches.
2. Bangalore scored their second largest powerplay score Chasing the target of 175 runs, Bengaluru scored 80 runs without losing any wickets in 6 overs of Powerplay. This is their second largest powerplay score in the history of IPL. This is also the second largest powerplay score made by any team against KKR. In Kolkata in 2024, Punjab scored 93 runs after losing one wicket to 262 runs.
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