2024-04-16 22:54:35
Sunil Narine stormed the high-voltage match against the points table-topping Rajasthan Royals. He brought up his first career century at the Eden Gardens on Tuesday night. Calcutta Knight Riders made a huge collection of 223 runs by losing 6 wickets based on his excellent innings of 109 runs. Rajasthan will have to overcome this run hill to win.
After losing the toss, KKR lost the wicket of Phil Salt for 21 runs. From there, Narine and Angakrish Raghuvanshi added 85 runs to the team’s collection in 43 balls. Raghuvanshi returned to Sajghar playing an innings of 30 runs with 5 fours off 18 balls after the team scored 109 runs.
Skipper Shreyas Iyer could not facilitate today. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 11 runs with 1 four and 1 six. Andre Russell, however, gave great company to Narine. At this time, they added 51 runs in just 19 balls. Among them, Narin scored 29 with 9 balls! He touched the magical figure of three with 11 fours and 6 sixes in just 49 balls. It was the first of his T20 career and the first century by any KKR player at the Eden Gardens.
Russell returns with 13 runs after 184 runs. Then in the 18th over, Narine was bowled by Trent Boult after the team scored 195 runs. However, before returning, he scored 109 runs off 56 balls with 13 fours and 6 sixes at a strike rate of 194.64 and laid the foundation for Kolkata’s big collection. In the end Rinku Singh played an unbeaten innings of 20 runs off 9 balls with 2 sixes and 1 four to take the team’s total to 223.
Abesh Khan of Rajasthan with the ball took 2 wickets with 35 runs in 4 overs. Kuldeep Sen also took 2 wickets with 46 runs in 4 overs. Bolt took 1 wicket with 31 runs in 4 overs. Yuzvendra Chahal took 1 wicket for 54 runs in 4 overs.
If Kolkata win today, they will overtake Rajasthan and go top of the points table. And if Rajasthan wins, it will secure the top spot.