Kolkata Knight Riders Rinku Singh celebrates with teammates after hitting the profitable runs through the match against Gujarat Titans within the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023, at Narendra Modi Stadium, in Ahmedabad on Sunday. Kolkata Knight Riders received the match by 3 wickets
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Following his match-winning cameo against Gujarat Titans of their Indian Premier League (IPL) match, Kolkata Knight Riders batter Rinku Singh stated that he had belief that he could end off the match and he was not pondering rather a lot, simply reacting to the ball whereas hitting.
Kolkata Knight Riders’ Rinku Singh’s 5 consecutive sixes within the final over took the win away from Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. “I had a belief that I can do this. Rana bhai (Nitish Rana, KKR skipper) said to keep the belief and to bat till the end, then we will see what happens. (On the single) I was just trying to hit sixes. (Umesh Yadav) Bhaiya was asking me not to think much and just play the ball. I was not thinking a lot, was just reacting to the ball. It kept coming out of the middle, I had belief and it came off in the end,” stated Rinku in a post-match presentation.
Coming to the match, Gujarat Titans posted 204/4 of their 20 overs after electing to bat first. Vijay Shankar top-scored with 63 off 24 balls, consisting of 4 boundaries and 5 sixes. Sai Sudharshan additionally scored his second half-century in IPL 2023, scoring 53 in 38 balls consisting of three fours and two sixes.
Shubman Gill additionally performed a stable knock of 39 runs in 31 balls, with 5 fours. Sunil Narine was the decide of the bowlers for KKR, taking 3/33 in 4 overs. Suyash Sharma additionally continued his stable run after a three-fer against Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) within the earlier match, taking 1/35 in his 4 overs.
In chase of 205 runs, KKR was diminished to twenty-eight/2, however skipper Nitish Rana (45 off 29 balls with 4 boundaries and three sixes) placed on a hundred-run stand for the third wicket with Venkatesh Iyer, who scored 83 in 40 balls, which consisted of eight fours and 5 sixes. Dismissal of those two set batters and Rashid’s hat-trick put KKR on the backfoot at 155/7. The equation got here all the way down to 29 runs within the remaining over.
Rinku Singh got here via with a clutch cameo, hitting 5 successive sixes within the remaining over to seal what was as soon as an unbelievable win for KKR. Rinku scored 48* in 21 balls, consisting of 1 4 and 6 sixes. Rashid was the decide of the bowlers for GT, taking 3/37. Alzarri Joseph took two, whereas Joshua Little and Mohammed Shami took a wicket every. Rinku Singh was given the ‘Player of the Match’ award for his unbelievable match-winning cameo.
With this win, KKR has climbed to 3rd place within the factors desk, profitable two of their three matches and shedding one. They have a complete of 4 factors. GT has slipped to fourth place and has the same win-loss file to KKR, however KKR is one place up attributable to a superior net-run-rate.
