Yashasvi Jaiswal continued his sensational run in the IPL by smashing the fastest fifty in match history after Yuzvendra Chahal grew to become the all-time main wicket-taker as Rajasthan Royals cruised to a nine-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders to resurrect their playoff hopes in Kolkata on May 11.
Chahal grew to become IPL’s main wicket-taker earlier than finishing a superb 4/25 as RR restricted KKR to a below-par 149/8 on the Eden Gardens
On a day KKR batters struggled to time the ball, 21-year-old Jaiswal confirmed the way in which by mentioning fastest fifty in the history of IPL in simply 13 balls, bettering the earlier document held by KL Rahul and Pat Cummins (14 balls every).
With the modest chase, Jaiswal remained two runs shy of a century (98 from 47 balls), a knock studded with 12 fours and 5 sixes as RR cantered to victory 13.1 overs.
Samson gave superb help to the southpaw with a 48 not out from 29 balls as the duo shared an unbroken match-winning partnership of 121 runs off simply 69 balls.
The win with 41 balls to spare additionally took them to 3rd spot (12 factors from 12 matches), giving an enormous increase to their web run-rate (0.0633) as the play-off race heats up.
It is all however over for KKR who slipped to seventh place (10 factors, 12 matches).
Jaiswal made his intention clear in the primary over itself when KKR skipper Nitish Rana made a daring transfer to bowl himself.
Wasting no time, Jaiswal seized on the chance and smashed Rana for 2 sixes and two fours in a row in a 26-run over.
He hit Shardul Thakur with a hat-trick of fours to race to his fifty in the third over itself as RR nearly sealed the problem scoring 78/1 inside powerplay.
To pile on the KKR distress, Sunil Narine dropped a simple catch when Samson was on 16.
The skipper then got here on his personal when he smoked Jharkhand leftarm spinner Anukul Roy for 3 sixes in a 20-run over.
On a day RR dished out an eye-grabbing fielding show, Chahal (187 wickets) eclipsed Dwayne Bravo (183) to grow to be the all-time main wicket-taker of the IPL when he struck off his second ball to dismiss KKR skipper Rana (22; 17b) in the eleventh over.
Chahal’s breakthrough got here simply when KKR regarded to step up after a pathetic begin when two astonishing catches of Shimron Hetmyer and Sandeep Sharma set the tone.
Both got here in Trent Boult’s successive overs as the Kiwi leftarm pacer returned with 2/15 from his three overs on his return.
After an costly second over when he leaked 15 runs, Chahal got here again in the loss of life overs and dismissed KKR topscorer Venkatesh Iyer (57; 42b) and Shardul Thakur (1) in 4 balls.
He ended his spell dismissing the the most recent KKR sensation Rinku Singh (16) in the penultimate over to additionally grow to be the main wicket-taker this season (21).
Put in on a dry Eden wicket, KKR frontline batters got here a cropper, as Venkatesh held the fort and returned to kind with a combating fifty.
From being two off 12 balls, Venkatesh paced his innings nicely and raced to a 39-ball fifty. But he slashed a large supply from Chahal to be brilliantly caught by Boult.
Andre Russell (10) did not make it large after he was promoted to No 5 and fell to KM Asif (1/34).
KKR, who have been 58/2 after 9 overs, regarded to grab the momentum after taking a strategic outing in the tenth over.
Venkatesh lastly broke free smashing Ashwin for back-to-back sixes, whereas Rana ended the over with a chic 4 by extra-cover to take them to 76/2 on the halfway mark.
KKR regarded on track for a good complete earlier than Chahal triggered a mid-innings collapse.
Scoreboard
Kolkata Knight Riders: Jason Roy c Hetmyer b Boult 10 Rahmanullah Gurbaz c Sandeep Sharma b Boult 18 Venkatesh Iyer c Boult b Chahal 57 Nitish Rana c Hetmyer b Chahal 22 Andre Russell c Ashwin b KM Asif 10 Rinku Singh c Root b Chahal 16 Shardul Thakur lbw b Chahal 1 Anukul Roy not out 6 Sunil Narine c Root b Sandeep Sharma 6 Extras: (lb-2, w-1) 3
Total: 149/8 in 20 overs
Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-29, 3-77, 4-107, 5-127, 6-129, 7-140, 8-149
Rajasthan Royals bowling: Trent Boult 3-0-15-2, Sandeep Sharma 4-034-1, Ravichandran Ashwin 4-0-32-0, Joe Root 2-0-14-0, Yuzvendra Chahal 4-0-25-4, KM Asif 3-0-27-1.
Rajasthan Royals: Yashasvi Jaiswal not out 98 Jos Buttler run out 0 Sanju Samson not out 48 Extras: (b-1, lb-1, w-3) 5
Total: 151/1 in 13.1 overs
Fall of wickets: 1-30
Kolkata Knight Riders bowling: Nitish Rana 1-0-26-0, Harshit Rana 2-0-22-0, Shardul Thakur 1.1-0-18-0, Varun Chakaravarthy 3-0-28-0, Sunil Narine 2-0-13-0, Suyash Sharma 3-0-22-0, Anukul Roy 1-0-20-0.
