Sunil Narine top-scored with 85 (39b, 7×4, 7×6) as Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) took aside Delhi Capitals’ (DC) bowling like cotton sweet to submit 272 for seven earlier than occurring to win by 106 runs on the Dr. YSR ACA-VDCA cricket stadium right here on Wednesday.
Narine batted in stark distinction to his opening accomplice Phil Salt. With the nonchalance of, say, Deadpool or Han Solo, Narine swatted sixes and fours as if sadistically driving away mosquitoes.
On the opposite hand, Salt, one of many hardest hitters of the ball in fashionable cricket, clubbed the ball as laborious as Thor would hammer something.
While Salt hit two consecutive fours — a loft over covers and a slash previous the quick third man— in Ishant Sharma’s first over, Narine hit three sixes and two fours in his second. He launched a six over lengthy off, pulled one to the deep sq. leg boundary, and sliced one to the additional cowl boundary. Thereafter, he punished each single bowler who bowled at him.
Raghuvanshi delights
The 18-year-old Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who had begun his innings with a pull and a punch past the purpose fielder for back-to-back fours off Anrich Nortje, was methodically violent.
He was Virat Kohli-like along with his cowl drive and pull to the deep midwicket boundary. Yet, as if in a match of mood, he reverse-hit Rasikh Salam for six. He hit two extra sixes off Sumit Kumar and Rasikh to the deep midwicket boundary.
For the remainder of the innings, KKR was in a world of funhouse mirrors as Andre Russell and Rinku Singh burned the DC ‘house of hope’ right down to cinders.
In response, Capitals misplaced 4 wickets within the PowerPlay itself.
However, skipper Rishabh Pant resolutely braved on as did Sisyphus along with his seemingly daunting process of rolling a boulder up a hill.
Pant (55, 25b, 4×4, 5×6), who hit 4 fours and two sixes off a Venkatesh Iyer over, seemed like he was carrying a niggle.
Tristan Stubbs additionally got here good for Delhi, scoring 54 off 32 balls which included 4 fours and two sixes every off spinners Varun Chakaravarthy and Narine.
SCOREBOARD
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS
Phil Salt c Stubbs b Nortje 18 (12b, 4×4), Sunil Narine c Pant b Marsh 85 (39b, 7×4, 7×6), Angkrish Raghuvanshi c Ishant b Nortje 54 (27b, 5×4, 3×6), Andre Russell b Ishant 41 (19b, 4×4, 3×6), Shreyas Iyer c Stubbs b Khaleel 18 (11b, 2×6), Rinku Singh c Warner b Nortje 26 (8b, 1×4, 3×6), Venkatesh Iyer (not out) 5 (2b, 1×4), Ramandeep Singh c Shaw b Ishant 2 (2b), Mitchell Starc (not out) 1 (1b); Extras (b-4, lb-2, nb-1, w-15): 22; Total (for seven wkts. in 20 overs): 272.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-60 (Salt, 4.3 overs), 2-164 (Narine, 12.3), 3-176 (Raghuvanshi, 13.2), 4-232 (Shreyas, 17.2), 5-264 (Rinku, 18.6), 6-264 (Russell, 19.1), 7-266 (Ramandeep, 19.3).
CAPITALS BOWLING
Khaleel 4-0-43-1, Ishant 3-0-43-2, Nortje 4-0-59-3, Rasikh 3-0-47-0, Sumit 2-0-19-0, Axar 1-0-18-0, Marsh 3-0-37-1.
DELHI CAPITALS
David Warner b Starc 18 (13b, 2×4, 1×6), Prithvi Shaw c Varun b Vaibhav 10 (7b, 2×4), Mitchell Marsh c Ramandeep b Starc 0 (2b), Abishek Porel (Impact Player instead of Khaleel) c Narine b Vaibhav 0 (5b), Rishabh Pant c Shreyas b Varun 55 (25b, 4×4, 5×6), Tristan Stubbs c Starc b Varun 54 (32b, 4×4, 4×6), Axar Patel c sub (Pandey) b Varun 0 (1b), Sumit Kumar c sub (Pandey) b Narine 7 (6b, 1×6), Rasikh Salam c Salt b Vaibhav 1 (5b), Anrich Nortje c Shreyas b Russell 4 (6b), Ishant Sharma (not out) 1 (3b); Extras (b-4, lb-6, nb-1, w-5): 16; Total (in 17.2 overs): 166.
FALL OF WICKETS
1-21 (Shaw, 1.5), 2-26 (Marsh, 2.5), 3-27 (Porel, 3.6), 4-33 (Warner, 4.3), 5-126 (Pant, 12.2), 6-126 (Axar, 12.3), 7-159 (Stubbs, 14.5), 8-159 (Sumit, 15.1), 9-161 (Rasikh, 16.1).
KNIGHT RIDERS BOWLING
Starc 3-0-25-2, Vaibhav (Impact Player instead of Raghuvanshi) 4-0-27-3, Russell 1.2-0-14-1, Narine 4-0-29-1, Varun 4-0-33-3, Venkatesh 1-0-28-0.
Toss: KKR; PoM: Narine.
KKR gained by 106 runs.
DC 87 for 4
Capitals had been 87 for 4 in 10 overs with Pant (24) and Stubbs (28) batting. Shaw (10), Warner (18), Marsh (0) and Porel (0) had been again within the dugout
