New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore in their home ground on Thursday. Royal Challengers Bangalore had a target of 205 runs to win, but the the team led by Faf du Plessis was reduced to just 123 runs in 17.4 overs.

Kolkata Knight Riders won the match by 81 runs. Nonetheless, this is the first win of the season for Kolkata Knight Riders. While Royal Challengers Bangalore suffered their first defeat in the season

Royal Challengers Bangalore openers Faf du Plessis and Virat Kohli added 44 in 4.5 overs, but the course of the match changed as soon as both players were out.

After this, wickets continued to fall. Captain Faf du Plessis scored the highest 23 runs for Royal Challengers Bangalore.

Apart from this, Virat Kohli, David Willey and Michael Bracewell contributed 23, 20 and 19 runs respectively. At the same time, talking about the bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders, Varun Chakravarthy took the most 4 wickets. While Suyash Sharma got 3 successes. Sunil Narine took 2 wickets.

Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore captain Faf du Plessis won the toss and decided to bowl. Batting first, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 204 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs.

In this way, Royal Challengers Bangalore got a target of 205 runs to win the match. Shardul Thakur scored the most runs for Kolkata Knight Riders. He scored 68 runs in just 29 balls. He hit 9 fours and 3 sixes in his innings.

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