Kolkata Knight Riders–Royal Challengers Bangalore rivalry

Kolkata Knight Riders–Royal Challengers Bangalore rivalry
Locale Kolkata
Bengaluru
Teams Kolkata Knight Riders
Royal Challengers Bangalore
First meeting 18 April 2008
KKR won by 140 runs at M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Latest meeting 29 April 2018
KKR won by 4 wickets at M. Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore
Next meeting TBD
Broadcasters Sony Six (2008-2017)
Star Sports (2018-till date)
Stadiums Eden Gardens
M. Chinnaswamy Stadium
Statistics
Meetings total 23
Most wins Kolkata Knight Riders (14)
All-time series KKR: 14
RCB: 9
No Result:0
Largest victory By runs:
KKR beat RCB by 140 runs at Bangalore, 18 April 2008.

The Kolkata Knight Riders–Royal Challengers Bangalore rivalry is a sports rivalry between the cricket teams of Kolkata Knight Riders representing West Bengal and Royal Challengers Bangalore representing Karnataka in the Indian Premier League (IPL).[1] The two teams have played each other in the IPL matches on 22 occasions with KKR winning 13 of them while RCB winning 9 of them and have played against each other in only one Champions League Twenty20 encounter.

Background

The rivalry is also considered as one of the hottest rivalries in the history of IPL with the very first match of the 2008 Indian Premier League tournament was contested between these two teams.[2] Kolkata Knight Riders wrapped a whopping 140 run victory over the RCB team in RCB's home soil with Brendon McCullum's supreme knock of unbeaten 158 runs off the very first match in the history of the tournament powered KKR to a heavy total of 222/3 in 20 overs while Royal Challengers Bangalore bowled out for 82 runs in 15.1 overs.[3] This rivalry is considered as the oldest rivalry in IPL history and also termed as the third biggest rivalry in the Indian Premier League.[4]

In the 2017 Indian Premier League, Royal Challengers Bangalore recorded the lowest ever total by any team in the history of IPL after folding for just 49 runs against the Kolkata Knight Riders when chasing a ease target of 132 runs.[5][6] At the 2018 Indian Premier League auction, Royal Challengers Bangalore bought former Kolkata Knight Riders team players such as Umesh Yadav, Chris Woakes, Colin de Grandhomme and Nathan Coulter-Nile who were all part of the KKR side where they combined to dismiss RCB for a score of 49 in a group league match in the 2017 season.

List of matches

No. Year Tournament Venue Winner Margin MoM
120082008 IPLBangalore
KKR
140 runsBrendon McCullum – KKR – 158* (73)
220082008 IPLKolkata
KKR
5 runsSourav Ganguly – KKR – 20 (22) & 1/7 (3 overs)
320092009 IPLDurban
RCB
5 wicketsMark Boucher – RCB – 25* (13)
420092009 IPLPretoria
RCB
6 wicketsRoss Taylor – RCB – 81* (33)
520102010 IPLKolkata
KKR
7 wicketsManoj Tiwary – KKR – 50 (29)
620102010 IPLBangalore
RCB
5 wicketsVinay Kumar – RCB – 3/23 (3 overs)
720112011 IPLKolkata
RCB
9 wicketsChris Gayle – RCB – 102* (55) & 0/9 (2 overs)
820112011 IPLBangalore
RCB
4 wickets (D/L)Chris Gayle – RCB – 38 (12) & 0/11 (1 over)

Statistics

Players who have played for both sides

References

  1. ↑ "Kolkata Knight Riders - Royal Challengers Bangalore Head to Head Records & Stats - Sportskeeda". m.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  2. ↑ "1st match (N), Indian Premier League at Bengaluru, Apr 18 2008 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  3. ↑ "1st match (N), Indian Premier League at Bengaluru, Apr 18 2008 | Match Report | ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  4. ↑ Arora, Rahul. "IPL: Top 5 rivalries in the history of the tournament". Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  5. ↑ "27th match (N), Indian Premier League at Kolkata, Apr 23 2017 | Match Summary | ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
  6. ↑ "27th match (N), Indian Premier League at Kolkata, Apr 23 2017 | Match Report | ESPNCricinfo". ESPNcricinfo. Retrieved 2018-04-29.
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