Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has made a strong comeback after suffering a demoralizing loss against RCB as they defeated the Delhi Capitals (DC) by 59 runs which also to get a massive kick to their net run-rate. With their sixth win, KKR has managed to retain its fourth-place owing to some brilliant performances of Nitish Rana, Varuna Chakravarthy, and Sunil Narine. Chakravarthy and Pat Cummins joined hands to leave the Capitals reeling in the steep chase.
Earlier, KKR managed to register a huge score owing to flamboyant half-centuries from Rana and Narine as they smashed the DC bowlers all-over the park in trying circumstances for the team as they were reeling at 42/3 in the 8th over of the innings. At this stage, nothing was going the KKR way, but, Rana was looking determined and he started smashing the DC bowlers along with Narine. The latter first took on Tushar Deshpande followed by Ravi Ashwin.
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While Narine was at his brutal best smacking sixes and fours at will, Rana was timing the ball brilliantly and they added 115 runs for the fourth wicket stand in just 56 deliveries. DC skipper Shreyas Iyer didn’t bring back his wicket-taker Kagiso Rabada, who eventually broke the partnership in the 17th over. Rana was dismissed by Marcus Stoinis in the final over after smashing 81 runs off 53 balls with 13 fours and a six. KKR ended the innings on 194/6 after 20 overs.
The 195-run chase required a good start but, Pat Cummins dismissed Ajinkya Rahane on a golden duck followed by Shikhar Dhawan was also castled in the next over by the same bowler, and hence, DC was reeling at 13/2, the Capitals were already way behind.
Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant stitched a decent partnership, but the required rate kept on increasing, and the partnership was eventually broken at the score of 63 and then, it was all one-way traffic. Rishabh Pant struggled for his 27 and took 33 deliveries to score those runs and eventually threw his wicket away in quest of quick runs. Varun Chakravarthy then ran through the Capitals’ middle-order.
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The spinner bowled extremely well enticing the batsmen with his flighted deliveries and all of them got out to him one after the other. DC collapsed from being 76/2 to 112/7 in a matter of 3.3 overs and the result of the game was only formality then. Chakravarthy registered the best figures of IPL 2020 with his 5/20 while Cummins ended with an economical spell apart from three wickets as the Capitals ended scoring only 135 runs for the loss of 9 wickets.
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Varun Chakravarthy
Varun Chakravarthy ran through the Capitals’ middle-order. The spinner bowled extremely well enticing the batsmen with his flighted deliveries and all of them got out to him one after the other. DC collapsed from being 76/2 to 112/7 in a matter of 3.3 overs and the result of the game was only formality then.
Nitish Rana and Sunil Narine
Nitish Rana was looking determined and he started smashing the DC bowlers along with Narine. The latter first took on Tushar Deshpande followed by Ravi Ashwin. While Narine was at his brutal best smacking sixes and fours at will, Rana was timing the ball brilliantly and they added 115 runs for the fourth wicket stand in just 56 deliveries.
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Shubman Gill
In IPL 2020, Shubman Gill has been consistently been failing to perform with the bat as he is yet to unleash himself and that seems to be the reason behind most of the losses for KKR. He needs to get his batting form back for KKR to reach the playoffs.
