Twitter world upset with RCB’s defeat against KKR at home

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB), riding on opener Chris Lynn’s 62 and Robin Uthappa’s 36, with 5 balls to spare, at the M.Chinnaswamy stadium on Sunday.

The win, which came after two straight losses, took KKR to the fourth spot with eight points while RCB is at seventh spot with four points.

Chasing 176, the visitors got off to a perfect start as Lynn and Sunil Narine (27) forged 59-run partnership in 7.1 overs before the West Indian departed by Murugan Ashwin.

New batsman Uthappa and Lynn then played sensibly and punished the bad balls. The duo managed to take Kolkata past 100-run mark. But just when things seemed good in the middle, Uthappa was dismissed by Ashwin in the 13th over.

New batsman Nitish Rana (15), who was looking good at the crease, got retired hurt.

All-rounder Andre Russel (0) and Dinesh Karthik (23) were also sent packing soon but at that time Lynn has already put his team on the front foot and then went on to complete the proceeding in the last over with Shubman Gill (5 not out).

For RCB, Ashwin and Mohammed Siraj took two wickets each.

Earlier, put into bat, Bangalore started on a cautious note as openers Quinton de Kock (29 off 27) and Brendon McCullum (38 off 28) shared a 67-run partnership for the first wicket.

Later, skipper Virat Kohli’s unbeaten 68-run knock off 44 balls helped the home side to post a respectable total of 175/4.

For Kolkata, Russel was the pick of the bowlers with figures of 3/31 while Kuldeep scalped a wicket for 20 runs.

Here’s how Twitter reacted to the RCB’s loss against KKR:

https://twitter.com/AlexHartley93/status/990661473906159617

As always it is only Virat Kohli who wants to do everything to win the game for his side.
— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 29, 2018

https://twitter.com/danevn81/status/990660993721274371

Very Well Played @lynny50 & @imVkohli !! Congratulations @KKRiders on the Victory #RCBvKKR
— Rajeev Shukla (@ShuklaRajiv) April 29, 2018

Forget everything – match after match after match, @imVkohli gets his A game to the field. Not at all easy when the team isn’t really firing! You do feel sorry for Virat! #RCBvsKKR #RCB #IPL2018
— RK (@RK_sports) April 29, 2018

.@RCBtweets can still qualify to the last four. Need to win at least six from the remaining seven!
Remember they had won seven consecutive games in 2011 (22 Apr to 14 May) after winning just one from their first four! Went on to reach final!
Time to #ReinventYourGame #RCBvKKR
— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) April 29, 2018

Fee bad for Kohli every time I see him speak at the post match presentation. Very strong words from him today. Team has to realize one man cannot win you all the games, it has to be a collective effort. #RCBvsKKR
— Hemang Badani (@hemangkbadani) April 29, 2018

Brilliant catch by Kohli, but in a lost cause at this stage. @RCBTweets let down by bowling again. And fielding below par too
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 29, 2018

Hey You.. Yes You.. listen :
Virat Kohli's Cover Drive is more beautiful than Your Crush.#RCBvKKR
— sudhanshu' (@whoshud) April 29, 2018

RCB win or lose anushka getting trolled all the time its kind "Bakra" on twitter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👊👊 #RCBvKKR
— PAPZZZ (@pappumaxcool) April 29, 2018

RCB should change #PlayBold to #KhelnaChhod #IPL2018
— Manya (@CSKian716) April 29, 2018

Virat Kohli scoring runs and bowlers leaking runs is like Dad earns hard money and kids spending lavishly…
— Broken Cricket (@BrokenCricket) April 29, 2018

Virat Kohli looks dejected. Gotta feel for him. Batted brilliantly again, played a much better team without AB and still the same story. #IPL2018
— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak) April 29, 2018

https://twitter.com/James_Beyond/status/990661482860961792

https://twitter.com/TiimesHow/status/990661431887478784

Anushka's reaction on kohli catch 😍 Waah dude is unbelievable 😂 @imVkohli @AnushkaSharma pic.twitter.com/hQlmYfnQEK
— Akash 🇮🇳 (@ViratBomB) April 29, 2018

People who troll & blame @AnushkaSharma for #RCB defeats are the biggest losers ever. For god sake take out your frustration on players or elsewhere but not on someone’s family😡😡😡😡 #RCBvsKKR
— Sumit Kadel (@SumitkadeI) April 29, 2018