Kohli seals RCB win after Salt leads onslaught

Phil Salt (in pic) and Jofra Archer know each other from their early years in Barbados but interestingly have never played against each other. Matchups suggested Archer would be a handful, and he was.

- Somshuvra Laha

KOLKATA: Phil Salt (in pic) and Jofra Archer know each other from their early years in Barbados but interestingly have never played against each other. Matchups suggested Archer would be a handful, and he was. First ball to Salt, who was born in Wales but raised in Barbados, Archer got the ball to shape back in to almost cut him into half, brush his back thigh to miss everything and fly wide of Sanju Samson's dive for four. Two balls later, Salt was beaten for pace but the top-edge still had enough power to send the ball over fine-leg for six.

Next over, Shimron Hetmyer scampered across midwicket and almost took a scintillating catch but Salt got away with a boundary. Next over, Salt finally connected, and the ball was deposited in the stands beyond deep square-leg.