Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Delhi Capitals by three wickets in the second match on Wednesday IPL To set up a title clash with qualifier Chennai Super Kings in Sharjah.
Chasing 136 on a sluggish wicket, Kolkata fell to 7 for 130 for 2 at 125 before Rahul Tripathi caught his nerve and needed as many runs off two balls in the final over as a six. Finished the game.
Ahead of a nerve-wracking finish, Venkatesh Iyer hits his third half-century of the season Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana contributed 46 and 13 respectively.
Earlier, Kolkata displayed clinical bowling on a slow pitch to restrict Delhi Capitals to 135 for 5 in their IPL Qualifier 2 here on Wednesday.
Sent in to bat, the DC batsmen struggled on a sluggish pitch with the KKR bowlers bowling a tight line and length. opener Shikhar Dhawan He scored 36 runs in 39 balls while Shreyas Iyer remained unbeaten on 30 off 27 balls.
Chakraborty took two wickets for 26 runs while Lockie Ferguson and Shivam Mavi took one wicket each. After seven dot balls in the first two overs, DC took 12 runs from the third, hoisting Shaw Shakib Al Hasan For a big six.
Dhawan joined the party by hitting two consecutive sixes in the fourth over. Sunil Narine As DC scored 14 runs off the experienced West Indian.
Chakraborty broke off the dangerous looking partnership by LBW to Shaw on his first ball of the day, with the batsman playing the wrong line in his googly.
Ferguson was impressive as he conceded just nine runs in his first two overs as DC Power reached 38 for 1 at the end of the play overs.
After a quiet period, during which Mavi, Naren and Chakraborty bowled a tight line and length, Dhawan hit a boundary in the 10th over and reached 65 for 1 at halfway point.
Odd ball skidding was making it difficult to score runs and DC suffered a setback when Mavi, who was bowling Sundar, was dismissed. Marcus Stoinis He was playing only his second match in the UAE leg.
Due to increasing pressure on the DC batsmen, Dhawan fell to hit a big shot in the 15th over.
He could only get an outside edge off Chakraborty to take a diving catch at backward point for Shakib Al Hasan.
DC were on 83 for 3 in the 15th over when skipper Rishabh Pant (6) came on and disappointed in a crucial match as he made Ferguson to take a regulation catch for Rahul Tripathi to hit a big shot in the next over. went to the ball.
there was no shortage of drama Shimron Hetmyer Shubman Gill was caught in the 17th over off Chakraborty’s ball but it turned out to be a no ball. DC managed to score 36 runs in the last three overs and put up a decent total in the end.
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