Who Won Yesterday IPL Match: In the 57th match of IPL 2026, RCB defeated KKR by 6 wickets. Virat Kohli led the team to victory by playing a stormy innings of 105 unbeaten runs. Know who won yesterday’s IPL match, complete details of match highlights, scorecard and player of the match.
In IPL 2026, Raipur ground was named after Virat Kohli on Wednesday night. After the flop in the last two matches, when the fans were waiting for a big innings from his bat, then King Kohli responded in his own style. Virat scored an unbeaten century against Kolkata Knight Riders and gave a spectacular victory to Royal Challengers Bangalore.
In the 57th match of IPL 2026, RCB created a big upset in the points table by defeating KKR by 6 wickets. With this win, Bengaluru reached the top of the table with 16 points. In this match played at Shaheed Veer Narayan Singh International Stadium in Raipur, Virat Kohli’s bat played in such a way that KKR bowlers just kept watching.
RCB vs KKR: Who won tomorrow’s IPL match?
In the 57th match of IPL 2026 played on 13 May 2026, Royal Challengers Bangalore defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 wickets. Batting first, KKR made a strong score of 192/4 in 20 overs, but on the basis of Virat Kohli’s century, RCB achieved the target in 19.1 overs.
match scorecard
- KKR: 192/4 (20 overs)
- RCB: 194/4 (19.1 overs)
Result: RCB won the match by 6 wickets
Virat Kohli played captaincy innings
RCB started aggressively to chase the target. Jacob Bethel was out early, but after this Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal completely changed the course of the match. Virat Kohli scored unbeaten 105 runs in just 60 balls. His innings included 11 fours and 3 brilliant sixes. The special thing was that he batted with utmost composure under pressure and persisted till the end. This was the 9th century of Virat Kohli’s IPL career. He completed his century in just 58 balls and once again proved why he is called a big player in big matches.
Devdutt Padikkal played an important role
Devdutt Padikkal made an important partnership of 92 runs with Kohli for the second wicket. Padikkal scored 39 runs in 27 balls and put RCB in a strong position. Although later Karthik Tyagi tried to get KKR back by dismissing him, but by then the match was largely in the control of RCB.
Angkrish Raghuvanshi shines for KKR
Earlier, young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi played a brilliant innings for the KKR team after winning the toss and coming to bat. He played an important role in taking the team to a big score by scoring 71 runs. KKR had posted a competitive score of 192/4 in 20 overs, but their bowling paled in comparison to the RCB batsmen.
Who did wonders in bowling?
Karthik Tyagi was the most successful bowler from KKR. He took 3 wickets, while Sunil Narayan got 1 wicket. However, KKR’s fielding caused a big loss to the team. Catches of both Virat Kohli and Devdutt Padikkal were dropped, due to which the team had to suffer defeat.
Virat Kohli made a big record
In this match, Virat Kohli made another historic achievement in his name. He became the batsman to complete 14,000 T20 runs in the fewest innings.
14,000 T20 runs in lowest innings
- 409 innings – Virat Kohli
- 423 innings – Chris Gayle
- 431 innings – David Warner
Apart from this, Virat also strengthened the record of scoring 400+ runs in most seasons in IPL.
Who became the player of the match?
RCB’s star batsman Virat Kohli was adjudged “Player of the Match” for his brilliant unbeaten inning of 105 runs. His innings was not just a century, but also proved to be a very important victory for RCB in the race for the playoffs.
RCB number-1 in points table
After this win, RCB has 16 points and on the basis of better net run rate, the team has reached the top in the points table. Gujarat Titans also have 16 points, but RCB is ahead in net run rate. Now the playoff race of IPL 2026 has become even more exciting.