2024-04-04 01:58:30
Sunil Narine once again explained why there is so much demand for West Indies players in the world of T20. Andre Russell once again proved the meaning of the name with him. Kolkata Knight Riders have climbed the run hill in the match against Delhi in the IPL match between the two Caribbeans. At the end of 20 overs, they lost 7 wickets and collected 272 runs.
Losing the toss and coming down to bat, Kolkata Knight Riders’ two openers Sunil Narine and Phil Salt attacked the Delhi bowlers from the beginning of the innings. 17 runs came in the first two overs. In the third over, Narine started the game a little higher. In this over, Narine and Salt hit Khalil with 3 fours for 15 runs.
Narine once again realized how ruthless the Caribbean can be with the bat. Along with salt. In the fourth over, Kolkata crossed the 50 mark. When Ishant Sharma came to bowl in the fourth over, he was bowled by Narine. He scored 26 runs in one over with 3 sixes and 2 fours.
This storm stopped for a while when Phil Salt was dismissed for 18 off 12 balls. Salt was caught by David Warner in the second ball of the fifth over. 2 runs on that ball. But on the very next ball, Salt was caught by Stubbs after being defeated by the pace of Enrique Norcia. English Raghuvanshi came to the crease instead.
Raghuvanshi came down and hit Narakia for two consecutive fours. Then Narin started storming again. He stormed to a 21-ball half-century. He has 4 sixes and 6 fours in this innings. The Knights’ collection in the power play stood at 88 for the loss of 1 wicket. Keeping this trend, Kolkata crossed 100 in the eighth over of the match.
Narine and Raghu’s storm was so strong that Kolkata’s total was 135 in 10 overs. From there, the team owned by Shah Rukh Khan stepped into the house of 150 in the next over. Narine’s rampage looked like he would score a century. But that didn’t happen. Norkia stopped him when he was 15 runs away. This Caribbean played a stormy innings of 85 runs off 39 balls.
Then another Caribbean star Andre Russell came to the crease. Meanwhile, Raghuvanshi scored a half century. The young batsman scored fifty runs in 25 balls. Finally, Raghuvanshi returned to Sajghar with 54 off 27 balls. His innings had 5 fours and 3 sixes. Despite the fall of the wicket, Russell continued the rampage. Kolkata also crossed the 200-run mark in the 16th over.
Russell and Rinku Singh tornadoed the Delhi bowlers the rest of the way. Russell scored 41 runs off just 19 balls with 4 fours and 3 sixes. Rinku scored 26 runs with 3 sixes and 1 four. And that’s Kolkata’s second highest score in the history of IPL.