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Last Matches Summary

Match 8 - Rajasthan Royals vs Punjab Kings

As expected it was a high scoring game, went down to the last ball of the game and Punjab came out on top in the end. Punjab set a big target with Prabhsimran’s explosive batting and Gabbar’s well managed steer to stay til the end.

RR started the chase with a surprise opener Ashwin and Jos came one down, chase continued on a brisk pace, game was still in RR’s grasp with Hetmyer and debut ‘Impact Player’ Dhruv Jurel’s fearless batting at the death but RR fell short a bit.

Brief Score: Gujrat Titans (Shikhar Dhawan 86*, Prabhsimran Singh 60; Jason Holder 2/29) beat Rajasthan Royals (Sanju Samson 42, Shimron Hetmyer 36; Nathan Ellis 4/30) by 5 runs

Impact Player: Dhruv Jurel replaced Yuzi Chahal (RR) and Rishi Dhawan replaced Prabhsimran Singh (PBKS)

Player of the Match: Nathan Ellis

Today’s Match Preview

Match 8 - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Royal Challengers Bangalore

First home game for KKR in Kolkata.

Team form IPL2023

Kolkata Knight Riders - L

Probable XI: 1 N Jagadeesan, 2 Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), 3 Venkatesh Iyer, 4 Nitish Rana (capt), 5 Rinku Singh, 6 Andre Russell, 7 Sunil Narine, 8 Shardul Thakur 9 Lockie Ferguson, 10 Umesh Yadav, 11 Varun Chakravarthy/ Suyash Sharma

Royal Challengers Bangalore - W

Probable XI: 1 Faf du Plessis (capt), 2 Virat Kohli, 3 Mahipal Lomror, 4 Glenn Maxwell, 5 Michael Bracewell, 6 Dinesh Karthik (wk), 7 Shahbaz Ahmed, 8 Harshal Patel, 9 Akash Deep, 10 Reece Topley, 11 Mohammed Siraj

A Tweet

A Picture

Once a royal, always a royal 🫡 

A fun fact

Why did the cricket team go to see a movie?

Because they heard it was a good pitch!

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