In the 39th match of IPL2020 , KKR faced of RCB who were at the 3rd place before the game for the second time in the group stage. KKR had made two changes as they brought in Tom Banton and Prasidh Krishna in place of Andre Russell while RCB made one change to their playing XI, picking Mohammed Siraj in place of all rounder Shahbaz Ahmed.
KKR won the toss and elected to bat first on a track with slight green patches.
MD Siraj immediately justified his selection as he struck twice in his first over of the match. It was Washington Sundar who was supposed to bowl the second over but skipper Virat Kohli went with his instincts of picking Siraj. First, he had Rahul Tripathi caught behind the wickets and then plumbed Nitish Rana on the front foot disturbing his furniture.
In the next over, Navdeep Saini picked his first wicket as KKR lost Shubman Gill who tried to pull a short of a lenght delivery and got caught around the incircle.
Siraj’s breath taking spells continued as he picked his third wicket of the match after Tom Banton edged one to AB de Villiers in his second over and became the first bowler in the IPL history to bowl two maidens in a match. Dinesh Karthik and skip Eoin Morgan were trying to build a walla against the fluent RCB attack.
RCB introduced spin in the ninth over and Yuzvendra Chahal trapped Dinesh Karthik before the wickets. The leg-spinner scalped his second wicket of the match in the 13th over after Pat Cummins was trapped in a flighted delivery wide outside off stump from Yuzi. KKR no where seemed at all taiyar.
Washington Sundar joined the party as he got Eoin Morgan out for 30 in the 16th over who tried to loft him between square leg and midwicket. Lockie Ferguson and Kuldeep Yadav added 27 runs together as KKR eventually posted 84/8 on the board.
Required 85 runs to win, RCB made a watchful start, scoring 15 runs in the first three overs before Devdutt Padikkal and Aaron Finch hit few boundaries each in the fourth over as RCB scored 13 runs in the over.
The two scored 16 runs in the next two overs of the next two overs as RCB moved to 44/0 at the end of the powerplay.
RCB lost both their openers in the seventh over. First, Lockie Ferguson, bowling his first over, dismissed Finch after the right-hander edged one to Dinesh Karthik , the wicketkeeper. Then, a mix-up between Gurkeerat Singh Mann and Padikkal saw the latter get run-out for 25.
Virat Kohli and Gurkeerat made sure that RCB did not lose any further wicket as the duo added 39 runs together to chase down a target of 85 in 13.3 overs.