KKR’s Jason Roy plays a shot during the Indian Premier League 2023 (IPL 2023) match between Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) and Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium, in Bengaluru on April 26, 2023.
| Photo Credit: K. Murali Kumar
Jason Roy top-scored with 56 as Kolkata Knight Riders produced a unified batting show to make 200 for five against Royal Challengers Bangalore in their Indian Premier League match, on Wednesday.
Roy scored his second fifty in three matches this IPL, making 56 from 29 balls with five sixes and four fours. He added 83 runs for the first wicket with KKR opener N Jagadeesan, who made 27 from 29 balls.
KKR captain Nitish Rana made 21-ball 48, Venkatesh Iyer scored 31, Rinku Singh hit a 10-ball 18 not out, and David Weise made 12 not out off three balls with two sixes towards the end of the innings.
This is the third game in this IPL where Virat Kohli is stepping in for RCB regular skipper Faf du Plessis, who will be available only as a batter in this contest.
KKR, who have lost four matches on the trot, dropped Kulwant Khejroliya to bring in right-arm pacer Vaibhav Arora.
Brief scores:
KKR 200 for 5 in 20 overs (Jason Roy 56, N Jagadeesan 27, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana 48; Vijaykumar Vyshak 2/41, Wanindu Hasaranga 2/24) vs RCB.
Teams:
Royal Challengers Bangalore: Virat Kohli (c), Shahbaz Ahmed, Glenn Maxwell, Mahipal Lomror, Dinesh Karthik (wk), Suyash Prabhudessai, Wanindu Hasaranga, David Willey, Vijaykumar Vyshak, Harshal Patel and Mohammed Siraj.
Kolkata Knight Riders: N. Jagadeesan (wk), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (c), Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, David Wiese, Vaibhav Arora, Umesh Yadav and Varun Chakaravarthy.