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Both the teams played the inaugural match of the Indian Premier League.RCB won the first toss of the tournament and elected to bowl. KKR batting first, posted a mammoth total of 222 runs for 3 wickets in 20 overs due to a marvellous inning played by Brendon McCullum who scored 158* in 73 balls and became the first centurion of the tournament.
He also holds the record for most 50-plus scores and wicket instances in an IPL match (9 times). [ 21 ] Heinrich Klassen (Sunrisers Hyderabad) scored his 4,000th run in T20s , [ 22 ] and broke the record for most sixes (8) in an IPL innings without registering a four.
Cricbuzz is one of the most popular mobile apps for cricket news and scores. [4] The site was the seventh most searched for site in India in 2014. [ 5 ] The mobile app has over 100 million downloads as of February 2022 and the website is used by more than 50 million users worldwide, generating 2.6 billion page views in Jan 2015.
In the 2017 IPL edition, Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore again faced each other twice. In the first match between them, RCB got KKR out for a score of 131 after KKR had made a strong start of 0–48 in 3.3 overs. However, KKR dismissed RCB for 49, the lowest team score in the history of IPL.
The first time a match was tied in the league was during the 2009 season when Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals played in a match at Newlands in South Africa. The most recent tie occurred during the 2021 season when Delhi Capitals and Sunrisers Hyderabad played at Chennai. [8] All tied matches in the IPL are resolved by using a super over.
The 2023 cricket season was the 16th season for the Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR). The franchise had won the IPL title twice in 2012 and 2014 . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The franchise had also qualified for the playoffs for three consecutive years in 2016 , 2017 and 2018 as well as in 2021 , when they were the runners up .
KKR had a good start to the seventh edition in UAE, defeating defending champions Mumbai Indians in the inaugural match. However, their performance dipped and they won only 1 out of their next 4 games played there, including a super over tie against Rajasthan Royals, which they ultimately lost on a boundary count.
Rohit Sharma 80 off 54 balls and Suryakumar Yadav 47 off 28 balls, contributed to a score of 195. Chasing a target of 196, the team had lost two wickets in a five overs. Shivam Mavi 9 off 10 balls was stumped on the final ball of the match and Knight Riders could only score 146/9 in 20 overs, losing the match by 49 runs. [18]