RCB crash to lowest IPL total as KKR win by 82 runs

Kolkata - Royal Challengers Bangalore were all out for 49

In a stunning collapse, Royal Challengers Bangalore were all out for 49, the lowest score in the history of IPL as Kolkata Knight Riders spanked them by 82 runs in Kolkata on Sunday night.
The hosts had put up a modest total on the board as they were all out for 131 with RCB leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal taking three wickets. However, the hosts defended the total despite facing one of the biggest hitters in the game in the rival camp.
Australian paceman Nathan Coulter-Nile ripped apart the Bangalore top-order by dismissing skipper Virat Kohli (0), AB de Villiers (8) and Kedar Jadhav (9). Pacemen Chris Woakes (3/6) and Colin de Grandhomme (3/4) also took three wickets each to bowl out RCB for 49 in just 9.4 overs.
Earlier, an excellent spell by leg-spinner Yuzvendra Chahal helped Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) bundle out Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) for 131.
Chahal returned figures of 3/16 while the other RCB bowlers also did well to restrict the hosts to the low total.
Tymal Mills - playing in place of Andre Milne - scalped 2/31 while Pawan Negi took two wickets conceding just 15 runs in three overs.
Playing in front of a packed stadium, Chahal - who in February returned best figures by an Indian in Twenty20 cricket with 6/25 against England - used the flat deck to his advantage, bowling with variations that flummoxed the home team batsmen.
Sunil Narine (34; 17b 6x4 1x6) was the top-scorer for KKR with the off-spinner continuing from where he had left off in the last match, spanking Samuel Badree for three consecutive fours and a six in the first over of the game.
The southpaw, who was catapulted up the order after Chris Lynn got injured, hit Sreenath Aravind for two back-to-back fours to get the crowd, mostly cheering for the away side, going.
At the other end, Gautam Gambhir's (14; 11b 1x4 1x6) stay at the crease was cut short by the returning Mills who caught the in-form left-hander's outside edge for a caught behind which was initially debated, but replays showed clear nick.
Narine's cameo - his third this season - ended when the Trinidadian holed out to Chahal at deep square leg.
Narine and Gambhir stitched together a 48-run opening partnership.
Robin Uthappa (11; 9b 2x4 0x6) did not last long, playing across the line to a fuller Badree delivery to be adjudged LBW by umpire C.K. Nandan. The hosts stared down the barrel from then on losing the next three three wickets for 27 runs.
Yusuf Pathan (8), Manish Pandey (15) and Colin de Grandhomme (0) were removed by Chahal as KKR were left reeling at 93/6.
Chris Woakes (18; 21b 3x4 0x6) and Suryakumar Yadav hung around for sometime for a 27-run seventh wicket stand before Mills got rid of Woakes and Nathan Coulter-Nile (2) followed suit without troubling the scorers much.
Suryakumar (15; 19b 1x4 0x6) fell to Pawan Negi while Kuldeep Yadav was taken by Aravind. Umesh Yadav remained not out for 2.
Earlier, rain delayed start of play for half an hour.
 SCOREBOARD
Kolkata Knight Riders
Narine c Chahal b Binny 34
Gambhir c Jadhav b Mills 14
Uthappa lbw b Badree 11
Pandey c Badree b Chahal 15
Pathan st Jadhav b Chahal 8
Yadav c Mills b Negi 15
De Grandhomme c Kohli b Chahal 0
Woakes c Mandeep b Mills 18
Coulter-Nile c De Villiers b Negi 2
Umesh not out 2
Kuldeep b Aravind 4
Extras (w 8) 8
Total (all out; 19.3 overs) 131
Fall: 1-48, 2-65, 3-66, 4-82, 5-93, 6-93, 7-120, 8-125, 9-125, 10-131.
Bowling: Badree 4-0-33-1, Mills 4-0-31-2, Aravind 3.3-0-27-1, Binny 1-0-9-1, Chahal 4-0-16-3, Negi 3-0-15-2.
Royal Challengers Bangalore
Gayle c Coulter-Nile b Woakes 7
Kohli c Pandey b Coulter-Nile 0
Mandeep c Pandey b UT Yadav 1
De Villiers c Uthappa b Coulter-Nile 8
Jadhav c Woakes b Coulter-Nile 9
Binny c Uthappa b Woakes 8
Negi lbw De Grandhomme 2
Badree lbw b Woakes 0
Mills c Kuldeep b De Grandhomme 2
Aravind not out 5
Chahal c Pandey b de Grandhomme 0
Extras (lb 3, w 2, nb 2) 7
Total (all out; 9.4 overs) 49.
Fall: 1-2, 2-3, 3-12, 4-24, 5-40, 6-40, 7-42, 8-44, 9-48, 10-49.
Bowling: Coulter-Nile 3-0-21-3, Umesh 3-0-15-1, Woakes 2-0-6-3, De Grandhomme 1.4-0-4-3.

• IPL 2019