In the 36th match of IPL 2024, on Sunday (April 21), Kolkata Knight Riders won by defeating Royal Challengers Bangalore by 1 run in a very thrilling match. In this match, KKR had set a target of 223 runs for RCB, chasing which RCB team scored 220 runs and lost the match on the last ball.

Chamke Salt and Shreyas

In this match, RCB won the toss and decided to bat first, after which Phil Salt and captain Shreyas Iyer played brilliant innings for the host team.

Phil Salt gave a stormy start to KKR and scored 48 runs in just 14 balls by hitting 7 fours and 3 sixes. At the same time, KKR captain Shreyas also showed a mirror to the RCB bowlers and played a half-century of 50 runs in 36 balls with the help of 7 fours and one six. Apart from Salt and Shreyas, Rinku Singh (24), Andre Russell (27), and Ramandeep Singh (24) also played good innings, on the basis of which KKR set a huge target of 223 runs in front of RCB.

Will Jacques and Rajat Patidar's hard work goes in vain

The RCB team, which came to chase the mountain-like target of KKR, did not have a special start and RCB suffered two big setbacks in the powerplay itself. Virat Kohli (18) and Faf du Plessis (07) were out cheaply. However, after this, Will Jacques and Rajat Patidar together took control of the team and made a century partnership.

Will Jacques scored 55 runs on 32 balls, while Rajat Patidar scored 52 runs on 23 balls. Both these players together added 102 runs for the third wicket, but after their dismissal, the RCB team disintegrated. Suyyash Prabhudesai (24) and Dinesh Karthik (25) scored some runs, but could not stay on the field till the end. However, despite this, the match went till the last over and there Karn Sharma made the match exciting by hitting three big sixes in Mitchell Starc's over. After this, Mitchell Starc took the wicket of Karn Sharma on the fifth ball of the over, after which RCB needed 3 runs on the last ball.

This match had become very exciting and Lockie Ferguson also hit a shot on Starc's ball, but in the end Ramandeep caught the ball and threw it straight towards the wicketkeeper. Phil Salt was agile behind the wicket and he blew away the stumps as soon as he caught the ball. In this way, KKR won this match by one run by running out Lockie Ferguson.

Also know that the most successful bowler for RCB was Cameron Green who took 2 wickets for 35 runs in 4 overs. Yash Dayal also got 2 wickets. Whereas Siraj and Ferguson took one wicket each. For Kolkata Knight Riders, Andre Russell took 3 wickets, Harshit Rana, Sunil Narayan took two wickets each and Varun Chakraborty and Mitchell Starc took one wicket each.