Sunil Narine of Kolkata Knight Riders raises his bat after smashing the joint-fastest fifty in IPL history against Royal Challengers Bangalore in Bengaluru, on Sunday. With Royal Challengers not having clinched a win in their last five outings, Kings XI should see tonight's match as a good opportunity to collect another two points.
In the next two matches, KKR would be facing Kings XI Punjab, who registered a 19-run victory against RCB on Friday, and already qualified Mumbai Indians who have 16 points from 10 outings.
Predicting how RCB have gone from 2016 finalists to 2017 cellar-dwellers in the IPL, Ponting said although poor form of key players like Virat Kohli, AB de Villiers and Chris Gayle can be the obvious reason behind the team's downfall, he insisted that the absence of Rahul could not be avoided.
Kings XI Punjab batsman Martin Guptill, who scored a strokeful half-century in his last match, believes that Royal Challengers Bangalore remain a "dangerous side" despite being placed last in the points table of the IPL 2017. If RPS gets the better of Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday evening, then it will be the final nail in the coffin of RCB.
He got strong support from the other end from Chris Lynn who hammered 22-ball 50.
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Chahal grabbed the wickets of Manan Vohra (25) and Maxwell (6) before Choudhary returned and bowled a 19th over wicket-maiden by dismissing Mohit. In the last over, Head tonked Umesh Yadav (3/36) for two sixes and a four on the trot to take away 21 runs. "You know as I said you're trying your best but this is just not coming together as a whole and you know to win games of cricket you need good performances with the bat or with the ball".
Narine praised Lynn as he said, "Lynn has full control of his ability and he takes o the pressure from the non-striker".
At the Kings XI's home ground in Mohali, Amla continued his fine form to score 104 off 60 balls, hitting eight fours and five sixes in what looked to be a reasonable total of 189-3.
Travis Head (75 not out) and Mandeep Singh (52) rebuilt the innings with a 71-run fourth wicket stand. Bangalore scored an astonishing 43 runs off the last three overs to take the score to 158/6 in the allotted overs.
Choudary gets his 1st wicket.
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