new delhi sunil narine slammed a quickfire fifty to help kolkata knight riders beat royal challengers bangalore by four wickets in their opening match of indian premier league season 11 at the eden gardens in kolkata on sundayhosts kkr chased down the 177run target in 185 overs skipper dinesh karthik 35 not out off 29 balls took the team home with seven balls to spare chris woakes 336 and umesh yadav 227 shared five kkr wicketsscorecard as it happenednarine gave the hosts a blazing start in their chase as he clobbered yuzvendra chahal for a four and a six in first two balls of the innings but his opening partner chris lynn was dismissed in the second over by woakes narine though kept the scoringrate high and smacked woakes for 20 runs in the fourth over by hitting couple of sixes and foursnarine then hit consecutive sixes off washington sundar in the fifth over as he raced to fifty in just 17 balls but the west indian dragged one to his stumps in the next over bowled by firedup umesh yadav narine hit five sixes and four boundaries in his 19ball 50 and set a perfect platform for kkr as they reached 682 in six powerplay oversnitish rana then made sure that runrate remained high as he hit a six and a four off kulwant khejroliya in the seventh over umesh though kept the pressure on and dismissed robin uthappa 13 in the eighth rana and karthik then took kkr closer to the target as they added 55 runs for the fourth wicket when rana was trapped lbw by sundar in the 15th over kkr were on 1384 needing 39 more off 33 balls rana hit couple of sixes and fours in his 25ball 34 innings andre russell smacked two fours and a six off umesh in the 17th over to make the equation 15 off 18 balls before becoming the third victim of woakesearlier parttime spinner rana struck twice in a sensational oneover spell before mandeep singh smashed a whirlwind 18ball 37 to take rcb to 1767 opener brendon mccullum set it up for rcb with a fine 27ball 43 6x4 2x6 while ab de villiers made the eden gardens crowd cheer for them with his scintillating 23ball 44 which was studded with five mouthwatering sixes and one boundary indian captain virat kohli 31 off 33 played the second fiddle and after rcbs star batsmen left the crease it was a blazing cameo by mandeep which ensured rcb post a challenging total on boardalso read srks presence enthuses packed eden crowdwith de villiers blazing all guns at one point their run graph was looking past 200 but parttime offspinner rana produced twin dismissals in two balls de villiers and kohli to reduce rcb to 1274 in 142 oversde villiers top edged while rana yorked kohli to break the quickfire 64 runs partnership off 36 balls as kkr pulled things back but mandeep produced a scintillating 18ball