Video: Bollywood to cricket fraternity, social media goes gaga after Andre Russell showdown

From Bollywood to cricket fraternity, social media went into a complete frenzy last night after Andre Russell’s power-hitting performance. Ranveer Singh, Angad Bedi, Shah Rukh Khan were all praise for Andre Russell. While from the cricket fraternity Harbhajan Singh, Sam Billings, Ian Bell, Chris Morris, Boria Majumdar also took to their official Twitter handle to applaud Russell.

Andre Russell powered Kolkata Knight Riders to a fantastic win as they beat Royal Challengers Bangalore by 5 wickets. This is not the first time that Russell won a match for KKR by his power-hitting performance.

Earlier, Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bowl first against Royal Challengers Bangalore at M Chinnaswamy Stadium.

Royal Challengers Bangalore finally opened up their hat tonight as they scored 205-3 in 20 overs. The superstars of RCB, Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers both scored a fantastic half-century. Opener Parthiv Patel was not timing the shot well as he was dismissed for 25 off 24 by part-timer Nitish Rana that is when Kohli and de Villiers took KKR bowlers by storm.

Virat Kohli scored an amazing 49-ball 84 before he was bowled and caught by Kuldeep Yadav. Kohli also became the highest run-scorer in the IPL as he has 5,110 runs to his name. AB de Villiers hit an important 32-ball 63 before he was dismissed by Sunil Narine. De Villiers’ knock included 5 fours and 4 sixes. Marcus Stoinis came in and took the matters into his own hands as he took RCB past 200. Stoinis scored a fantastic 13-ball 28.

Nitish Rana, Kuldeep Yadav and Sunil Narine all took one wicket each to their name. Prasidh Krishna was the most expensive bowler for KKR as he went for 41 runs from three overs.

Chris Lynn and Sunil Narine opened the innings for Kolkata Knight Riders. Sunil Narine was dismissed by Navdeed Saini for 10 off 8 balls. Robin Uthappa came in and held the innings for Kolkata before he was dismissed by Pawan Negi for 25-ball 37. Chris Lynn was then dismissed by Pawan Negi for 31-ball 43.

Nitish Rana was looking good before he was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal for 23-ball 37. Skipper Dinesh Karthik scored 15-ball 19 before he was dismissed by Navdeep Saini. Andre Russell once again finished the game for Kolkata as he smashed 48 off just 13 balls.

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