IPL 2025 - Match 1 - KKR vs RCB - Threads

Cricket
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Teams:

Royal Challengers Bengaluru (Playing XI): Virat Kohli, Philip Salt(w), Rajat Patidar(c), Liam Livingstone, Jitesh Sharma, Tim David, Krunal Pandya, Rasikh Dar Salam, Suyash Sharma, Josh Hazlewood, Yash Dayal

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock(w), Venkatesh Iyer, Ajinkya Rahane(c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Spencer Johnson, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Kolkata Knight Riders Impact Subs: Anrich Nortje, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Anukul Roy, Luvnith Sisodia

Royal Challengers Bengaluru Impact Subs: Devdutt Padikkal, Abhinandan Singh, Manoj Bhandage, Romario Shepherd, Swapnil Singh

Royal Challengers Bengaluru have won the toss and have opted to field

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After the wide (7.4) Sunil Narine’s toe end of the bat hit the stumps (one of the bails came off as well) as he finished his half-hearted bat swing, is it an out?

This is what the rule says:

35.2 Not out Hit wicket

The striker is not out under this Law should his/her wicket be put down in any of the ways referred to in 35.1 if any of the following applies:

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Rahane vs Krunal in the IPL
Runs: 61
Balls: 53
Dismissals: 4
Avg: 15.25
SR: 115.09

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Highest PP scores for RCB in the IPL
92/1 vs GT, Bengaluru, 2024
80/0 vs KKR, Kolkata, 2025
79/1 vs KTK, Bangaluru, 2011
79/0 vs SRH, Bengaluru, 2024