The 18th season of IPL 2025 has started in which the first match was played between KKR vs RCB, this match was played at the Kolkata ground in which RCB registered a spectacular victory in this game by 7 wickets, while Virat contributed a brilliant 59 runs, along with this Salt scored 56 runs.
The first match of the 18th season of IPL was played between KKR vs RCB which was held at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. In this match, RCB won the toss and invited KKR to bat first where KKR team scored 174 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs, chasing which RCB team scored 177 runs for 3 wickets in just 16.2 overs and won the match by 7 wickets.
Explosive batting by Virat Kohli and Phil Salt
In this match played between KKR vs RCB, Virat Kohli and Phil Salt batted brilliantly, Phil Salt is the star batsman of England who shared a 95-run partnership with Virat Kohli and contributed an excellent 56 runs, he was dismissed by Varun Chakraborty while Virat Kohli remained unbeaten after scoring 59 runs.
KKR batted first
Quinton de Kock, who came to bat first for Kolkata in the KKR vs RCB match, could not show anything special and returned to the pavilion after scoring just four runs, after this Sunil Narendra and Ajinkya Rahane made a partnership of 103 runs in 55 balls. Where captain Ajink Rahane scored 56 runs and Sunil Narine scored 44 runs.
After this, the KKR team could not do anything special and their wickets kept falling one after the other, in which Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 30 runs, Venkatesh Iyer scored four runs, Andre Russell scored four runs and Harshit Rana scored five runs, while Ramandeep Singh scored 6 runs and Spencer Johnson could score only one run.
The target was of 175 runs
In the KKR vs RCB match, RCB got a target of 175 runs in which opener batsmen Phil Salt and Virat Kohli came on the field from RCB’s side and made a brilliant partnership of 95 runs in 8.3 overs, where Phil Salt scored 56 runs in 31 balls with the help of nine fours and two sixes, while Virat Kohli scored 59 runs in 36 balls.
Virat Kohli’s 56th 50 of his IPL career
Virat Kohli batted brilliantly in the KKR vs RCB match and with this he contributed 59 runs and remained unbeaten, he completed the 56th 50 of his IPL career.
KKR vs RCB team players
KKR players– Quinton de Kock (wicketkeeper), Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty
RCB players: Virat Kohli, Philip Salt (wicketkeeper), Rajat Patidar (captain), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal
