Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Nitish Rana celebrates the wicket of DC batter Aman Hakim Khan in the course of the IPL 2023 cricket match between Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders on the Arun Jaitley Stadium, in New Delhi, on April 20, 2023.
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Kolkata Knight Riders suffered their third consecutive defeat within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 against Delhi Capitals on April 20, and KKR skipper Nitish Rana took the responsibility for this loss.
Nitish has displayed his potential as a batter previously few video games. He scored 75 (41) against Sunrisers Hyderabad, nonetheless, his knock was not sufficient to take KKR throughout the end line. “I take the responsibility for this, I should have stood there,” Nitish Rana mentioned after the match.
Against DC all eyes had been caught on him as KKR misplaced wickets within the essential second of the sport. Rana did not step up as he walked again to the pavilion for a rating of 4(7) as he grew to become the primary sufferer of Ishant Sharma.
As KKR batters accepted their destiny and ended up placing a low rating of 127 in 20 overs on the board, KKR bowlers performed a pivotal function in bringing the guests again into the sport. “Credit to the bowlers though, I think the upcoming games will be good for us. We were just trying to delay, but they played really well in the powerplay. That’s where they won the game. We need to play well as a team. We need to bowl like the way we did today, if we manage to sort these things out, we can fight better,” Nitish Rana added.
Even although Nitish did not carry out with the bat, he stepped up with the ball and ended up selecting two wickets in 4 overs and gave away 17 runs. Still, his efficiency with the ball was not sufficient to clinch the victory for KKR. Chasing the bottom complete of 127 on this yr’s IPL, David Warner appeared in his pure fashion, hitting bowler from the beginning. However, Prithvi Shaw continued to disappoint along with his unhealthy type, he gave his wicket to Varun Chakravarthy scoring simply 13 off 11 balls within the fifth over.
DC reached the 50-run mark with ease in 5.3 overs. By punishing Sunil Nairne’s sixth over conceding 17 runs, DC scored 61/1 after the powerplay. KKR’s mild of hope got here with the dismissal of Mitchell Marsh adopted by Phil Salt within the ninth and 10 overs. Warner clinched his fourth fifty this season off 33 balls comprising ten fours.
Varun along with his second wicket gave an enormous breakthrough to KKR by clearing set-in batter Warner at 57 off 41 balls. Anukul Roy dismissed Manish Pandey at 21 off 23 balls and Nitish Rana despatched Aman Hakim Khan again to the dressing room on a duck. Due to the dismissal of batters in common intervals, DC struggled within the mid-overs as they didn’t hit a single boundary after the sixteenth over onwards.
This introduced the match to the final over completed on April 17 at Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium. In the final over, DC wanted 7 runs. With the assistance of 1 no-ball, DC chased down the whole in 19.2 overs with 4 wickets.
