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Archiman Bhaduri | TNN

IPL 2025, KKR vs RCB: Opening act with a twist

Phil Salt IPL Sunil Narine RCB KKR Virat Kohli Kolkata Kolkata Knight Riders Royal Challengers Bengaluru De Villiers

KOLKATA: A good start is a job half done, and nobody knows it better than Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bengaluru. The former rode on some electric starts by their openers Sunil Narine and Phil Salt to lift the IPL trophy for the third time last season. It was such a different story just earlier.

Across the IPL editions from 2020 to 2023, KKR had the worst average (25.8) and strike rate (122.3) when it came to making an opening statement. They struggled to get a good start and tried out a number of combinations but with little success.

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