Currently, the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) are facing the Mumbai Indians (MI) at the iconic Eden Gardens in Delhi in the 47th match of the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). After winning the toss, the MI skipper, Rohit Sharm asked the hosts to bat first and his decision cost him a lot as the Kolkata lost no wicket in the powerplay.

During the toss, the KKR skipper, Dinesh Karthik revealed that they have made as many as three changes in the squad as Prithvi Raj, Carlos Brathwaite, Prasidh Krishna made way for Robin Uthappa, Sandeep Warrier, and Harry Gurney. On the other hand, MI made just one change as Anukul Roy has been replaced by Barinder Sran.

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The KKR openers, Shubman Gill and Chris Lynn started all guns blazing for the hosts as they amassed as many as 96 runs for the opening wicket under the first 10 overs itself, before the latter getting dismissed by Rahul Chahar after scoring a fifty. Surprisingly, Andre Russell started building a partnership with Gill and they added as many as 62 runs for the second wicket before the latter getting out to Hardik Pandya in the 16th over.

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During their partnership, in the 14th over of Chahar, Gill and Russell smashed 20 runs with the help of three sixes out of which the first one was smashed by Gill and the last two were smashed the DreRuss. Gill started the over by smashing the length over the mid-wicket boundary for a maximum. However, Russell finished the over with a couple of sixes, with the first one going over mid-wiicket and the last one going over the long-off boundary.

Here are the videos of the shots:

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