Match 54 LSG vs KKR : Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) who impressed with their all-round performance registered their eighth win in the IPL tournament. In the match against Lucknow Super Giants on Sunday, the Kolkata team won by 98 runs. Former two-time IPL champions Kolkata jumped to the top of the points table with the latest win. Although Rajasthan and Kolkata teams are equal with 16 points… Kolkata got the top rank with a better performance
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Match 54 LSG vs KKR.
The Lucknow team won the toss and chose to field… Kolkata Nirinatha, who batted first, scored 235 runs for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Opener Sunil Narine (81 off 39 balls; 6 fours, 7 sixes) was brilliant. Phil Salt (32 off 14 balls: 5 fours, 1 six) and Raman Deep Singh (25 not out off 6 balls: 1 four, 3 sixes) also played aggressively. Later, the Lucknow team, who came into the ring to chase down the target of 236 runs, collapsed for 137 runs in 16.1 overs. The other batsmen failed except for Stilius (36 off 21 balls; 4 fours, 2 sixes). Match 54 LSG vs KKR.
Phil Salt and Sunil Narine in excellent form this season once again gave a good start to the Kolkata team. From the first ball, both of them attacked Lucknow’s bowlers, Mosin Khan bowled in the fourth over of the innings. 20 runs were scored in this over by hitting three fours and a six in a row. After getting out in the fifth over, Kolkata scored 70 runs at the end of the powerplay. Match 54 LSG vs KKR.
Right after the power play, he continued his momentum. He completed his half century in 27 balls. Narine hit three sixes in the 11th over of the inners bowled by Diluus. Sarin hit a six in the 12th over bowled by Ravi Bishnoi and then tried another big one and got out. After Narine turned back… Shreyas and Ramanp continued to attack and Kolkata’s score crossed 230. Match 54 LSG vs KKR.
Score details.
Kolkata Knight Riders Innings: Salt (c) Rahul (b) Naveenul 32: Narine (c) Sub-Edikkal (b) Lizjay 81: Raghuvanshi (c) Rahul (b) U.Dweer 32: Russell (c) Sub-Gautam (b) ) Naveenul 12, Rinku Singh (c) Sdainis (b) Naveenul 16; Shreyas. Iyer (c) Rahul (b) Yash Thakur 23: Ramanp Singh (not out) 25; Venkatesh Iyer (not out) 1; Extras 13: Total 120 20 62809) 235 226-50:1-61,2-140,3-167,4-171, 5-200, 6-224.
Bowling: Stoinis 2-0-29-0 Mosin Khan 2-0-28-0, Naveenul Haq 4-0-49-3. Yash Thakur 4-0-46-1, Krunal Pandya 2-0- 26-0,02 Man 4-0-33-1, -25 50fi-2-0-24-1
Lucknow Supergiants Innings: KL Rahul (c) Raman Deep (b) Parjit 25: Ordin (Pr) Raman Deep (b) Starc 9) Tillus (c) Harshit (D) Russell 36; Deepak Hooda (LCW) (b) Varun 5; Pooran (c) Salt (b) Russell 10, Badoni (c) Starc (b) Narine 15) Turner (c&b) Varun 16; Xanal Pandya (c) Salt (b) Harjit 5: Yudwar (c) Russell (b) Varun 7: Byflow lbw Harshita 2, Naveenul (not out) Extras 7 Total (all out in 16.1 overs) 137. Fall of wickets: 1-20, 2 -70, 3-77,4-85,5-101,6-109, 7-125, 8-129, 9-137, 10-137
Bowling: Vaibhav 2-0-21-0, Starc 2-0-22-1, Soharin 4-0-22-1, Harjit Rana 3.1-0-24-3, Varun Chakraborty 3-0-30-3, Russell 2-0- 17-2 , More ,Match 54 LSG vs KKR.
