DC vs KKR Highlights: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Delhi Capitals by 14 runs on the back of deadly bowling by Sunil Narine and Varun Chakraborty. Defending champions KKR, who came to bat first after losing the toss, scored 204 runs for the loss of nine wickets in 20 overs, thanks to a brilliant innings of 44 runs by Angkrish Raghuvanshi. In reply, Delhi managed to score 190 runs for the loss of nine wickets in the stipulated overs and lost the match. For KKR, Narine took three and Varun took two wickets, while Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora and Andre Russell took one wicket each.
Delhi’s Rocky Start to the Chase
Delhi has played a total of four matches at home this season. In these, they lost three matches while they won one in the Super Over. At the same time, outside the home, Akshar Patel’s team won five out of six matches while they lost one. With this win on Tuesday, Kolkata has kept its playoff hopes alive. They have nine points in their account and their net run rate has become 0.271. At the same time, Delhi is in fourth place with 12 points and a net run rate of 0.362.
Delhi’s start to chase the target was a jolt. Anukul Roy got Abhishek Porel caught out by Russell in the very first over. He could score only four runs. After this, Karun Nair, who came at number three and four, could score 15 and KL Rahul could score seven runs.
DC vs KKR: Faf and Akshar’s Strong Partnership
Faf du Plessis got the support of captain Akshar Patel for the fourth wicket. There was a partnership of 76 runs in 42 balls between the two. Narine made Akshar his victim. He was dismissed after scoring 43 runs with the help of four fours and three sixes. At the same time, Faf du Plessis completed his second fifty of this season in 31 balls. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 62 runs in 45 balls. Vipraj Nigam scored 38 runs for Delhi. However, he could not make his team win. Apart from him, Tristan Stubbs scored one run, Ashutosh Sharma scored seven runs and Mitchell Starc got out without opening the account. Whereas, Dushmantha Chameera and Kuldeep Yadav remained unbeaten by scoring two and one runs respectively.
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