Kolkata Knight Riders batters made merry on the M Chinnaswamy Stadium in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore in an IPL 2023 match on Wednesday. Fiery knocks from Jason Roy, Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh helped KKR notch an enormous whole of 200/5 in 20 overs. While the batters had a easy outing, the identical can’t be mentioned about RCB stars Mohammed Siraj (4-0-33-1) and Harshal Patel (4-0-44-0). While they had been expensive with the ball, they had been additionally poor of their fielding efforts. First, Siraj dropped KKR captain Nitish Rana, who was batting on 5, within the thirteenth over by Vijaykumar Vyshak. Then, Rana obtained yet one more reprieve as he was dropped by Harshal within the fifteenth over off Siraj.

The duo was trolled closely for the dropped possibilities.

while you understand each siraj and harshal actually dropped sitters pic.twitter.com/LBcZ17T0D8

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Jason Roy led the present with a fiery fifty as Kolkata Knight Riders obtained their mojo again to notch a preventing 200 for 5 in opposition to Royal Challengers Bangalore within the IPL on Wednesday. Having slipped to eighth spot after 4 losses on the trot, KKR lastly obtained into the act with Roy setting tempo up entrance when he smashed 5 sixes and 4 boundaries en path to his 29-ball 56 as he and Narayan Jagadeesan (27; 29b) gave KKR their greatest ever begin — 83 runs from 56 balls.

Harshal Patel plz retire man
U left the catch of Nitish Rana and conceded 2 sixes from him

Plz depart our workforce man#RCBvsKKR #KKRvsRCB#HarshalPatel

— kohlibhakt (@Pavancool06J) April 26, 2023

KKR’s batting got here on both facet of Sri Lankan legspin sensation Hasaranga’s two terrific bowling spells as he returned with 4-0-24-2 that precipitated sufficient flutter.

First, his miserly spell after the powerplay gave the impetus for Vyshak’s double blow when he dismissed Jagadeesan and Roy.

But Nitish Rana then ensured that they do not lose the momentum as he made full use of his two reprieves — on 5 and 19 — to race to his 21-ball 48 (3×4, 4×6).

KKR’s new-found hero Rinku Singh (18 not out; 10b) then took cost as he smashed two fours and one six to make sure that they attain the 200-mark.

David Wiese smacked two sixes to make an unbeaten 12.

Roy confirmed KKR the way it’s finished within the powerplay, blazing his approach to a 22-ball fifty, his second in a row handy KKR their greatest ever begin this season.

The Englishman confirmed his intent in opposition to the likes of RCB new ball bowlers and Mohammed Siraj and David Willey and unleashed his fury when leftarm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed was launched within the final over of the powerplay.

Roy smoked him for 4 sixes in 5 balls in a 25-run over as KKR cruised to their highest powerplay rating this season with 66 for no loss.

But all credit score to willy Lankan spinner Hasaranga for a tidy over after the powerplay the place he conceded simply two runs to mount stress on the duo.

Vyshak and Harshal Patel too tightened the noose as boundaries abruptly dried up and it was all of the extra evident on the duo.

Struggling to get massive hits, Jagadeesan was finished in by a Vyshak bouncer, whereas Roy obtained a peach of a supply from the uncapped Indian who obtained an ideal legstump yorker to scrub up the Englishman spherical his stump.