The Kolkata Knight Riders-Royal Challengers Bangalore rivalry is a cricket rivalry between the IPL teams of Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League (IPL) and the defunct Champions League Twenty20 (CLT20).

KKR batting first, posted a mammoth total of 222 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs due to a marvellous inning played by Brendon McCullum who scored 158* in 73 balls and became the first centurion of the tournament.

Batting second, the Royal Challengers started steadily with a 58-run opening stand between Jesse Ryder and Jacques Kallis.

[8][9] During the second innings of the match between both the teams in the 2013 Indian Premier League at Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore, Virat Kohli was dismissed and sledged by Lakshmipathy Balaji, which led to a heating exchange between them.

Gautam Gambhir also stepped in the matter in defence of his KKR teammate which led to a verbal spat between him and Kohli.

That's the kind of player he was when we saw him early but what he's transformed into, I think from a fitness point of view and the way he's worked on his skills is tremendous.

Both teams played against each other on 23 April 2017 at Eden Gardens, Kolkata where the Royal Challengers won the toss and elected to bowl.

[12] Although it initially seemed like the Royal Challengers were set for an easy win, the KKR pacers dismissed the top order within the first three overs, resulting in a significant setback for the team as their backbone had gone to the pavilion.

Like the previous fixture, the KKR bowlers departed the top-order trio (Gayle, Kohli and de Villiers) early within the powerplay.

The partnership between Mandeep Singh (52) and Travis Head (75*) brought them back into the game and the Royal Challengers finished the innings at 158 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs.

Batting second, the Knight Riders went off to a flying start the opening pair of Chris Lynn and Sunil Narine scoring a century-partnership of 105 runs.

The Royal Challengers went off to a great start with Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal building a solid 49-run partnership, which was ultimately broken by Lockie Ferguson within the powerplay.

The Knight Riders started on a good note, scoring a partnership of 41 runs between Shubman Gill (29) and Venkatesh Iyer (26).

This match was played at DY Patil Stadium, Navi Mumbai to comply with COVID-19 safety protocols during the whole tournament.

Sam Billings (14) and Andre Russell (25) were trying to bring the situation under control but they were dismissed by Harshal Patel (2-11), who picked up 2 wickets.

While it seemed to be an easy chase for the Challengers, the Knights pacers Umesh (2-16) and Southee (3-20) made it quite difficult as they dismissed the top-order batters back to the pavilion for just 17 runs.

Rahmanullah Gurbaz opened the innings and scored a steady 57 runs, despite the Knights losing wickets at regular intervals.

But after the loss of the openers (Kohli and du Plessis) in quick succession by the spinning duo of Knights, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakravarthy, the Challengers were reduced to 61/5 within 9 overs.

A blistering bowling by the Impact player and debutant Suyash Sharma ended the Challengers' winning hopes by picking up 3 wickets.

But the 55-run partnership between Virat Kohli and Mahipal Lomror was guiding the team to victory, until both of them lost their wickets in quick successions to Andre Russell and Varun Chakravarthy respectively, scoring 54 and 34 runs individually.

The Knight Riders got off to a great start, with the partnership between Phil Salt (30) and Sunil Narine (47) contributing 86 runs and putting the Royal Challengers at a disadvantage.

This strong performance helped the team comfortably chase the target, winning by 7 wickets with 19 balls to spare.

Vyshak Vijay Kumar was the most economical bowler of the innings, claiming one wicket while conceding just 23 runs in his 4 overs.

Shreyas Iyer tried to stabilize the innings with Rinku Singh and Andre Russell who built partnerships of 40 and 42 runs respectively, with the captain scoring a half-century.

Ramandeep Singh hit some quick shots towards the end and the partnership between him and Russell led the Knight Riders to a total of 222 runs with the loss of 6 wickets.

Will Jacks and Rajat Patidar formed a partnership, scoring a century to keep the team on track for the chase, which was ultimately broken by Russell who picked up both of their wickets in the same over.

But the throw by Ramandeep towards the keeper ensured the victory for the Knight Riders by the slightest margin of just 1 run.

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