RCB get bowled out for record low IPL score of 49 vs KKR on Apr 23, 2017; watch video

Thursday marked 3rd anniversary of  IPL seeing one of its greatest batting collapses when Royal Challengers Bangalore were castled by Kolkata Knight Riders for just 49 runs on board. RCB's 49 is lowest score that has ever been made in a full team innings in IPL history. Let us take a look back at what happened to Virat Kohli's team on that fateful day of April 23, 2017.

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RCB's hopes get destroyed by Gautam Gambhir's KKR

Kolkata Knight Riders were hosting Royal Challengers Bangalore at Eden Gardens for Match 27 of IPL 2017. Virat Kohli won toss and asked KKR to bat first. Sunil Narine and captain Gautam Gambhir came out to bat and went all guns blazing against RCB bowling lineup. However, RCB scripted mselves a recovery and made KKR go from 1-64 in 5.3 overs to 6-93 in a span of 5 overs. KKR tail-enders tried ir hardest and eventually helped team reach a low total of 131. match was n RCB's to win but here is where Knight Riders had or plans for m.

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KKR's first hit on match was when y took out Virat Kohli for a first-ball duck in third ball of RCB innings. Soon eugh, RCB were reduced to 4-40 in 6.1 overs with likes of Mandeep Singh, AB de Villiers and Kedar Jadhav already back in dugout. Chris Gayle had somehow mand to survive this collapse on or end but on his 17th ball, he too, fell and went back for just 7.

RCB were 5-40 in ir 7th over and somehow a KKR victory looked more than plausible. After that, it was just easy picking for n KKR's overseas players, Colin De Grandhomme and Chris Woakes, who took it on mselves to get rid of Stuart Binny and remaining tail-enders. On fourth ball of tenth over, Yuzvendra Chahal knicked one to Manish Pandey in slips and it was all over. KKR had just destroyed RCB in under 10 overs for lowest total ever posted in IPL. Here highlights of historic match.

(Foot courtesy: BCCI)

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RCB had a very poor record in IPL 2017 and ended up at bottom of table. y won only three of ir fourteen matches. KKR made playoffs at .4. BCCI currently has IPL 2020 postponed in wake of Coronavirus pandemic.

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