2024-04-30 05:40:10
Kolkata Knight Riders picked up their sixth win in their ninth match. They beat Delhi Capitals by 7 wickets at Eden Gardens on Monday night.
On this day, Delhi scored 153 runs for 9 wickets by batting first. In response, Phil Salt’s fifty took 7 wickets and 21 balls in hand, Kolkata won.
Chasing runs, Salt and Narine laid the foundation for the victory by picking up 79 runs in 6 overs in the opening pair. In this run, Narine returns with 15 runs in 3 fours. From there, Rinku Singh and Salt continued to advance the party collection. Kolkata scored 96 in 8 overs with the bat of both of them. After that, however, Salt returned to the dressing room. He played a stormy innings of 68 runs off 33 balls with 7 fours and 5 sixes. Rinku also left after 100 runs. He scored 11 runs in 1 four.
From there, captain Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer made an unbroken partnership of 57 runs and left the field winning the team. Shreyas remained unbeaten on 33 with 3 fours and 1 six and Venkatesh with 26 runs with 2 fours and 1 six.
Delhi’s Akshar Patel took 2 wickets with 25 runs in 4 overs with the ball. Lizard Williams took 1 wicket with 38 runs in 3 overs.
Before that, Delhi lost wickets at regular intervals in the face of Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers who won the toss and went to bat. They lost 5 wickets before the century. They could not stand the big collection to handle that shock.
Kuldeep Yadav scored an unbeaten maximum of 35 runs with the bat. He scored this run in 26 balls with 5 fours and 1 six. The second highest 27 runs came from Rishabh Pant’s bat. He scored this run with 2 fours and 1 six off 20 balls. Besides, Abhishek Porel scored 18, Akshar Patel scored 15, Prithvi’s scored 13 and Jack Fraser-McGurk scored 12 runs.
Calcutta’s Varun Chakraborty was the best with the ball. He was man of the match with 3 wickets for just 16 runs off 4 overs. Harshit Rana took 2 wickets with 28 runs in 4 overs and Vaibhav Arora took 2 wickets with 29 runs in 4 overs.
In this win, KKR has collected 12 points from 9 matches and has taken the second place in the points table. Delhi is sixth in the table with 10 points from a draw.