Kolkata Knight Riders, playing the 12th match of the 16th Indian Premier League against Rajasthan Royals at Eden Gardens, scored 149 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs.
Both the teams have faced each other in 27 matches where Rajasthan have won 14 matches while Rajasthan have won 12 matches.
Earlier, Rajasthan Royals won the toss and decided to bowl first against the home team.
KKR innings:
Batting first, KKR openers Jason Roy (10) and Rahmanullah Gurbaz (18) could not do much and were dismissed by Trent Boult in the second and fifth overs.
Thereafter, KKR’s Venkatesh Iyer shouldered the responsibility of scoring in the match and tried to build a partnership with skipper Nitish Rana (22), who was dismissed by Yuzvendra Chahal in the 11th over.
After this, KKR sent power hitter Andre Russell (10), who was sent to the pavilion by KM Asif in the 14th over. Chahal also sent set batsman Venkatesh Iyer (57) to the pavilion in the 18th over. Due to this, wickets started falling like cards and KKR batsmen Rinku Singh (16), Shardul Thakur (1) and Sunil Narine (6) could not handle. By the end of 20 overs, KKR managed to set Royals a target of 150 runs to chase.
For RR, Yuzvendra Chahal took 4 wickets, Trent Boult took one wicket, while KM Asif and Sandeep Sharma took one wicket each.
After this innings, Yuzvendra Chahal has become the highest wicket-taker in the IPL, surpassing Dwayne Bravo. In Thursday’s match, Chahal claimed 4/25 in his four overs, taking his total to 187 wickets. He has become the highest wicket-taker in IPL by surpassing Dwayne Bravo.
RR innings:
Chasing 150 at Eden Gardens is not that easy considering the pitch condition. But, when RR openers – Yashasvi Jaiswal and Jos Buttler took the field, they looked very determined to win the match.
However, Butler could not open the account and was run out by Andre Russell in the second over itself.
After this, RR skipper Sanju Samson entered the field and suddenly everything changed. He stitched a formidable partnership with Jaiswal and it was raining boundaries all over the ground.
On one side Jaiswal was hitting fours and on the other side Samson was hitting the ball with sixes.
In just 47 balls, Jaiswal scored 98 runs at a strike rate of 208.51 with the help of 12 fours and 5 sixes, on the other hand, Samson scored 48 runs in 29 balls with the help of 2 fours and 5 sixes.
Both chased down the target of 150 runs in just 13.1 overs with 9 wickets in hand.
With this, RR moved to the 3rd spot in the IPL points table with 6 wins and 6 losses, while KKR slipped to the 7th spot with 5 wins and 7 losses.
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