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IPL 2026 KKR vs RCB Match Highlight: The 57th match of IPL 2026 was played between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Kolkata Knight Riders at the Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium, Raipur. In this match, Bengaluru defeated Kolkata by 6 wickets. After this victory, RCB has come to the first position in the points table of IPL 2026. Earlier, RCB captain Rajat Pajidar won the toss. After winning the toss, he invited KKR to bat. After which KKR, while batting, set a target of 193 runs for RCB to win. RCB achieved this target given by Kolkata at the loss of 4 wickets with 5 balls remaining.

Virat Kohli’s century was heavy on KKR

Virat Kohli single-handedly led his RCB to victory against Kolkata Knight Riders in Raipur. He remained on the field from the beginning till the end of the innings. He started his innings with Jacob Baithal and remained on the field till he got the win with Jitesh Sharma. In this match, Virat Kohli played an unbeaten century of 105 runs in 60 balls.

Played at a strike rate of 175 Virat Kohli This century innings included 11 fours and 3 sixes. Apart from Virat Kohli, Devdutt Padikkal scored 39, Jacob Baithal scored 15 and captain Rajat Patidar scored 11 runs. Whereas, wicketkeeper batsman Jitesh Sharma remained unbeaten after scoring 8 runs. Karthik Tyagi got the maximum 3 wickets for Kolkata. Whereas, Sunil Narine took 1 wicket.

KKR’s batting condition

Finn Allen scored runs in a fast manner in the beginning for Kolkata Knight Riders, but he could not extend his innings. Allen was out after scoring 18 runs in 8 balls when the team’s score was only 23 runs. After KKR suffered the first blow in the third over, captain Ajinkya Rahane also became the victim of Josh Heddlewood after scoring 19 runs in the fifth over.

After this for the third wicket Angkrish Raghuvanshi Together with Cameron Green, they completed a partnership of 68 runs in 46 balls. KKR got its third blow at the score of 116 runs in the 13th over. Green scored 32 runs in 24 balls, but Angkrish Raghuvanshi, on the other hand, remained steadfast and kept showing his shorts on the field. Raghuvanshi played a half-century inning of 71 runs on 46 balls with the help of 7 fours and 3 sixes. In the end he was run out while trying to complete two runs.

At the same time, Rinku Singh played an unbeaten inning of 49 runs with the help of 3 fours and 1 six in 29 balls. There was a partnership of 76 runs in 46 balls between Rinku Singh and Angkrish Raghuvanshi for the fourth wicket. Talking about bowling in this match for Royal Challengers Bangalore, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Josh Heddlewood and Rasik Salam Dal got 1 wicket each.