Kkr innings highlights: In the first match of the IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders, batting first, have given Royal Challengers Bangalore a target of 175 runs to win. Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narayan shared a brilliant partnership of 103 runs and gave KKR a good start. But Krunal Pandya took 3 wickets and made RCB a good comeback and stopped KKR for 174 runs. KKR has scored at least 30-40 runs less than the initial start.

Kolkata Knight Riders scored 107 runs in the first 10 overs but in the last 10 overs, RCB bowlers made a good comeback. KKR was able to score just 67 runs in the last 10 overs. The team’s explosive batsman Andre Russell, Rinku Singh flopped.

Krunal Pandya took 3 wickets

Krunal Pandya took 3 important wickets for 29 runs in 4 overs. He made Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer and Rinku Singh their victims. Josh Hazlewood took the first wicket of the innings as Quinton Dickock. He took 2 wickets for 22 runs in his 4 overs spell. Yash Dayal and Rasik Salam got 1-1 wickets. Suyash Sharma’s name was also 1 wicket.

Shatak partnership between Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narayan

After Quinton Dickock’s first wicket fell for 4 runs, Ajinkya Rahane had a brilliant century partnership with Sunil Narayan. Rahane scored the first half -century of IPL 2025, for this he played only 25 balls. Rahane scored 56 runs in 31 balls, in which he hit 6 fours and 4 sixes. He was dismissed by Krunal Pandya. Sunil Narayan scored 44 runs in 26 balls. In this innings, he hit 3 sixes and 5 fours. He was dismissed by Rasik Salaam.

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