In the 36th match of IPL 2023, Kolkata Knight Riders player Venkatesh Iyer ended Virat Kohli’s innings with a splendid catch while he was captaining Royal Challengers Bangalore. Meanwhile, Andre Russell was bowling.
Virat played a half-century innings of 54 runs with the help of 6 fours in just 37 balls. Bangalore had won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match. In the first ball of the 13th over, Russell bowled a short ball outside the off-stump and Kohli pulled it.
Meanwhile, Venkatesh Iyer who was fielding in that direction, ran towards the ball and slid down while catching the ball with both hands to take a spectacular catch of Kohli, thus ending his innings. During this, Kolkata’s head coach Chandrakant Pandit, who was giving an interview, said, “In the past few matches, Venkatesh Iyer has been telling me that he is good in the outfield and should be fielding there, today he proved it with Virat’s catch.”
In this match, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 200 runs after losing 5 wickets in 20 overs while batting first. Jason Roy scored the most runs for the team. He played a half-century innings of 56 runs with the help of 4 fours and 5 sixes in just 29 balls. Roy started the innings with Narayan Jagadeesan (27 runs off 29 balls) and together they shared a partnership of 83 runs for the first wicket to give the team a great start.
In addition to Roy, captain Nitish Rana played a 48-run innings in just 21 balls with the help of 3 fours and 4 sixes. Along with him, Venkatesh Iyer contributed 31 runs off 26 balls with the help of 3 fours. From RCB’s side, the most wickets were taken by Wanindu Hasaranga and Vijay Kumar who took 2 wickets each. Mohammed Siraj took one wicket.
