Virat Kohli struck an unbeaten 105 to steer defending champions Royal Challengers Bengaluru to the highest of the IPL desk with a six-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders on Wednesday.
Kohli returned to kind after back-to-back geese as he steered his staff house in a chase of 193 in Raipur with a superb 60-ball innings.
The 37-year-old scored his ninth IPL hundred, hitting 11 fours and three sixes.
𝙑𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙑𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩 🍿
Luxurious strokes to thrill Raipur 🎆
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Bengaluru notched their eighth victory in 12 matches this season to usurp Gujarat Titans on the prime of the 10-team desk on web run-rate, transferring nearer to securing a playoff spot.
Three-time champions Kolkata suffered their sixth defeat in 11 matches as their slim probabilities of making the playoffs suffered a blow.
The highest 4 will make the playoffs, with the ultimate to be performed in Ahmedabad on Might 31.
Kohli bought off the mark with a single within the first over of the chase, punching the air in mock celebration after his successive geese.
He misplaced his opening companion Jacob Bethell for 15 however placed on 92 runs with Devdutt Padikkal, who made 39, for the second wicket.
Kohli was dropped on 21 and made Kolkata pay, citing his fifty in 32 balls.
Dropped probability adopted by a SIX 👊
🎥 Virat Kohli serves a simple most🔥
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Bengaluru misplaced Padikkal, skipper Ruturaj Gaikwad after which Tim David to a surprising one-handed diving catch at backward level by Manish Pandey.
However Kohli saved calm to succeed in his first hundred of the season, soaking within the applause earlier than wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma hitting the profitable runs.
Earlier, Kolkata posted 192-4 after a 46-ball 71 by Angkrish Raghuvanshi.
Raghuvanshi placed on robust partnerships together with with Cameron Inexperienced, who scored 32, and Rinku Singh, who completed with a flourish in his unbeaten, 29-ball 49.
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𝗥𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗥𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘂 𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗮𝗶𝗽𝘂𝗿 😎
A momentum-inducing 49*(29) from the left-hander 👏
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Tempo bowlers Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Hazlewood and Rasikh Salam took one wicket every.
#RCB checks in with early wickets ✅✅
🎥 Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Josh Hazlewood at it once more within the powerplay ❤️🔥
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