Virat Kohli's Royal Challengers Bangalore and Dinesh Karthik's Kolkata Knight Riders went head to head in Sharjah with an eye on the top of the Indian Premier League standings.
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Kohli won the toss and elected to bat first, with Pat Cummins leading the line for KKR.
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Aaron Finch seemed to rediscover his touch with the bat as he and Devdutt Padikkal got RCB off to a flying start.
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Finch eventually fell on 47 runs and Padikkal 32, bringing in Kohli and No. 3 and the big-hitting AB de Villiers.
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While they had plenty of wickets in hand, RCB were struggling to capitalise, with a fairly moderate run rate as they reached 15 overs.
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But De Villiers decided it was time to act and started smashing the ball to all corners of the ground, racking up 73 off 33 balls, including 5 fours and 6 sixes, as RCB posted 194-2. Kohli chipped in with 33.
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KKR's chase got off to a terrible start as debutant Tom Banton walked for only eight.
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Fellow opener Shubman Gill put up a fight (34) but Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan and Karthik all departed for single-figure scores.
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Kohli was in celebratory mode after Andre Russell (16) also went with KKR at 85-6 with six overs left, leaving them facing a required run rate of more than 22 per over.
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When Pat Cummins and Rahul Tripathi could only manage a single apiece, the writing was truly on the wall and KKR slumped to an 82-run defeat.
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