Chasing 183 at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium on Friday evening, Sunil Narine, playing his 500th T20 match, starred with a blazing 47 off 22 balls at the top, while Phil Salt breezed to 30 off 20 balls as KKR amassed 85\/0 from their first six overs of the chase.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
That set the base for KKR to complete the chase in 16.5 overs, with Venkatesh Iyer hitting a 30-ball fifty and captain Shreyas Iyer making 39 not out for the two-time IPL winners to become the first team winning an away match in the ongoing season.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cYou can always know after the game, we can say perhaps try one or two things but the way the two of them (Narine and Salt) were striking the ball, some really good batting there, they put pressure on our bowlers,\u201d du Plessis said on Friday night. \u201cThey hit strong cricket shots and pretty much took the game away. With Narine there, you can't really go to spin, you want to use pace upfront. That's also a really good match-up for Salt and the way he plays. They were excellent, really broke the game in the first six overs,\u201d said du Plessis after the match ended.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Du Plessis also spoke about how he couldn\u2019t use off-spin of Glenn Maxwell as there was no help for him from the pitch. \u201cWe've tried the spinning options with Maxi (Glenn Maxwell), the finger-spinners seem to be effective here, but at night there wasn't too much spin, with left-hand, right-hand combination, it's one of those things, you can bowl a spinner.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cBut as you saw when Venky was playing against the left-arm spinner (Mayank Dagar), you feel like it's an easy hit on a small boundary to hit with the spin. Ideally, you want someone who can spin the ball both ways but with the set-up of our team tonight, we didn't have that option,\u201d the RCB skipper said.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Speaking about RCB\u2019s batting, where Virat Kohli top-scored with 83 not out off 59 balls, du Plessis felt 182 was a decent score while pointing out the two-paced nature of the pitch. \u201cStrange one, first innings we thought that the wicket was very two-paced, you could see that when the guys bowled the cutters, back of a length, the guys really struggled.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\u201cWe thought it was a decent score knowing that it gets a little bit easier in the evening, there was a little bit of dew that came in. Looking at the way we batted in the first innings, even if you have someone in there, Virat was struggling to hit the ball just because there was a lack of pace and the two-pacedness.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The lone positive for RCB in a wayward bowling show was pacer Vyshak Vijaykumar, who took 1-23 in his four overs, where he mixed his variations and lines to good effect. \u201c(Vyshak was) very good, he hasn't had opportunities. We had a look in the first innings, and we thought about bringing in Karn Sharma.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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