Kolkata's third consecutive win in IPL-2024: Beat Delhi by 106 runs; Naren-Raghuvanshi's half-centuries, Varun-Vaibhav's 3-3 wickets
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Sunil Narine was chosen player of the match.
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have achieved their third consecutive win in the Indian Premier League-2024 (IPL). The team defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) by 106 runs in the 16th match of the current season. With this victory, Kolkata has come on top of the points table. In the second over, Delhi has reached ninth position.
Batting after winning the toss, Kolkata scored 272 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs at the Dr. YS Rajasekhara Reddy Cricket Stadium in Visakhapatnam. The team made the second highest score of IPL. This is Kolkata's biggest score in this league. In the reply innings, Delhi team was all out for 166 runs in 17.2 overs. Sunil Narine was the player of the match. He played an innings of 85 runs on 39 balls.
Interesting facts about the match
- Kolkata has defeated Delhi in this league after 3 years. The team's last win was in 2021.
- Kolkata has won its first three matches for the first time in IPL history.
- Andre Russell has completed 200 sixes for KKR.
Players' performance: Narine-Raghuvanshi's fifty, Russell's 41 runs on 19 balls
Sunil Narine (85 runs on 39 balls) from Kolkata played a half-century. He hit 7 fours and 7 sixes. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 54 runs on 27 balls. Andre Russell played an inning of 41 runs on 19 balls. Rinku Singh scored 26 runs on 8 balls. Enrique Nortya took three wickets. Ishant Sharma got 2 wickets.
For Delhi, captain Rishabh Pant (55 runs) and Tristan Stubbs (54 runs) scored half-centuries. Varun Vakravarthy and Vaibhav Arora took 3 wickets each. Kolkata's match winners in graphics…
Reasons for Delhi's defeat…
- Dropped catches on important occasions Delhi dropped catches on important occasions. After getting a lease of life, Sunil Narine and Phil Salt gave a fast start to Kolkata. Both made an opening partnership of 60 runs. Then Angkrish played a half-century after being caught and Kolkata scored 88/1 for one wicket in 6 overs of powerplay.
- Could not create pressure after Salt was out Delhi bowlers could not create pressure after Phil Salt's wicket fell on 60 runs and taking advantage of this, Narine made a century partnership of 104 runs on 48 balls with Angkrish Raghuvansh for the second wicket.
- Top order scattered in run chase Delhi's top order disintegrated while chasing the target of 273 runs. The top-4 batsmen of the team could not play big innings. The team lost four wickets at the score of 33 in the 5th over of the powerplay. In such a situation, there was pressure on the middle order.
- Iyer's captaincy Shreyas Iyer brought in young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi in place of Venkatesh Iyer. Then after the century partnership of Narine-Raghuvanshi was broken, Andre Russell was brought in. Russell scored 41 runs on 19 balls. He took the wicket of Pant by introducing Varun Chakraborty in the 13th over of the second innings. Here Varun broke the 93-run partnership of Stubbs and Pant. He also took the wicket of Akshar Patel in the same over and dashed Delhi's hopes of a comeback.
Fifty partnership of openers, Narine-Angkrish added 104 runs
Kolkata, who came to bat first, made three big partnerships. First, Sunil Narine and Phil Salt made an opening partnership of 60 runs on 27 balls. Then Sunil along with young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi added 104 runs on 48 balls for the second wicket. In the end, Shreyas Iyer made a partnership of 56 runs with Andre Russell on 24 balls.
Narine-Angkrish made a partnership of 103 runs for the second wicket.
No big partnership from Delhi on top-4
Delhi had a bad start to chase the target of 273 runs. There was no major partnership in the top order for the team. Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs added 93 runs in the middle, but it was not enough to win.
Points Table: Kolkata came on top, Delhi reached number-9
Kolkata team has achieved its third consecutive win. Whereas Delhi has lost 3 out of 4 matches. After this match, Kolkata team has come on top of the points table with 6 points, while Delhi is at ninth position with 2 points.
Cap race in the current season…
Orange Cap: Kohli leads, Pant comes in top-4
Delhi captain Rishabh Pant scored his second consecutive fifty. He played an inning of 55 runs. Pant has come to number-4 position in the race for Orange Cap. He has 152 runs in his name in 4 matches. Whereas David Warner joined the top-5 with 148 runs after playing the same number of matches. Virat Kohli of Bengaluru is at the top of this list. He has scored 203 runs with the help of two fifties in 4 matches.
Purple Cap: Khalil Ahmed at number 5
Khalil Ahmed took one wicket against Kolkata. He is fifth in the race for Purple Cap. He has 6 wickets in his name in 4 matches. In this race, CSK's Mustafizur Rahman is at first place with 7 wickets.
Playing-11 of both the teams
Kolkata Knight Riders: Shreyas Iyer (Captain), Phil Salt, Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty. Substitutes: Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Arora and Gurbaz.
Delhi Capitals: Rishabh Pant (captain and wicketkeeper), David Warner, Prithvi Shaw, Mitchell Marsh, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sumit Kumar, Rasikh Salaam, Anrich Nortya, Ishant Sharma and Khaleel Ahmed.
Substitutes: Abhishek Porel, Kushagra, Dubey, Lalit, Jack Fraser.
