Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Delhi Capitals by 59 runs to keep their hopes of making it to playoffs alive. Varun Chakravarthy has been named Man of the Match for his five-wicket haul.
Fine knocks by Nitish Rana and Sunil Narine change course of the game as KKR stay in hunt for a IPL playoff spot
Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Delhi Capitals by 59 runs to keep their hopes of making it to playoffs alive. Varun Chakravarthy has been named Man of the Match for his five-wicket haul.
Delhi Capitals started well reducing Kolkata to 42 for 3 in 7.2 overs before Sunil Narine and Nitish Rana quick fire knocks took the game away from Delhi Capitals. While KKR have managed to give themselves some cushion in their race to be in the final four, DC it looks like will have to re-plan and see where did they go wrong. Chakravarthy simply blew away Capitals with a five-wicket haul.
"This is surreal. The last few games I didn't get wickets. I wanted to get one or two today, but thank god I got five. I enjoyed Shreyas Iyer's wicket the most. I was bowling to the shorter boundary so I had to attack the stumps," Chakravarthy said after the match. While DC remain on 14 and second spot, KKR have managed to open up a gap of four points and are now on 12 points with six wins.
Brief Scores:
Kolkata Knight Riders: 194 for 6 in 20 overs (Nitish Rana 81, Sunil Narine 64; Anrich Nortje 2/27). Delhi Capitals: 135 for 9 in 20 overs (Shreyas Iyer 47; Varun Chakravarthy 5/20, Pat Cummins 3/17). (SCORECARD | POINTS TABLE | RESULTS & SCHEDULE)
7:17PM IST: The way they (KKR) batted, especially, how Sunil Narine went after us. We could have implemented out plans better. They have outplayed us in every department, says Shreyas Iyer
7:09 PM IST: Lockie Ferguson picks up Tushar Deshpande at long-on
Delhi Captials finish on 135 for 9 in 20 overs, way short of 195-run target. Outclassed in all departments, DC will need to go back to the drawing board
7:03 PM IST: WICKET!! Pat Cummins gets his 3rd, Kagsio Rabada caught by Rahul Tripathi at long-on; Curtains for Delhi's chase;
Rabada c Tripathi b Cummins 9; DC 132/8
6:55 PM IST: End of 18th over Delhi now have to score 68 in 12 balls; Varun Chakravarthy returns figures of 4-0-20-5; DC 127/7 in 18 overs
6:50 PM IST: Delhi now falling like pack of cards; WICKET!!! No 5 for Varun Chakravarthy; Axar Patel gets clean bowled, The ball sneaks past defense and crashes on the top of off-stump;
Patel b Varun 9 (7b); DC 112/7 in 16 overs (Rabada 1, Ashwin 0); Need 82 of 23 balls
6:45 PM IST: HUGE WICKET!!! 4th for Varun Chakravarthy. DC now in all sorts of trouble; Marcus Stoinis gets out trying to hit big, finds Rahul Tripathi at long-off
Stoinis c Tripathi b Varun 6 (6b); DC 110/6 in 15.1 overs; need 85 of 29 balls
6:43 PM IST: Delhi's chase has been derailed by three quick wickets by spinner Varun Chakarvarthy; at the end of 15th DC are 110/5
DC need 85 of 30 balls with Axar Patel and Marcus Stoinis in the middle
6:37 PM IST: 13.3 WICKET NO 2 !!!!!for Varun Chakravarthy; This time it's DC skipper Shreyas Iyer trying to clear long-on;
Iyer c Nagarkoti b Varun 47 (38b, 5x4); DC 96/5 in 13.4 overs; Need 99 off 38 balls
6:34 PM IST: 13.2 WICKET!! Shimron Hetmyer perishes; After some big shots where he connected one of Narine's last ball of 13th over, He was dropped by Varun of the first ball of the 14th but is caught of the very next ball
Hetmyer c Tripathi b Varun 10 (5b); 101 needed off 41
6:24 PM IST: 11.2 WICKET!!! Varun Chakravarthy gets Rishabh Pant; A wrong one, full and outside leg, Pant finds Shubham Gill at sqaure leg
Pant c Gill b Varun 27 (33b, 2x4, 1x6) DC 76/3 in 11.2 overs
6:22 PM IST: 10.2 FOUR!!! Iyer gets one on length; fires it over mid-off; 10.3 FOUR!!!! Again Iyer goes inside-out over mid-off; Lockie Ferguson concedes 12 off 11th over
DC 76/2 in 11 overs (Pant 27, Iyer 38)
6:18 PM IST: 50 run partnership for Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer off 48 balls; Keep Delhi Capitals in hunt
DC 64/2 in 10 overs (Pant 26 (30b), Iyer 27 (25b)
6:11 PM IST: Kolkata are bowling to a plan; Nothing lose so far for Delhi batsmen; One FOUR came of the second ball of the ninth over as Lockie Ferguson concedes 7 runs
DC 58/2 in 9 overs ( Rishabh Pant 23 (27b, 2x4, 1x6,); Shreyas Iyer 24 (22b, 3x4)
6:08 PM IST: Sunil Narine comes into attack, concedes just 7 runs;
DC 51/2 in 8 overs (Pant 17 (23b), Iyer 23 (21b)
6:02 PM IST: Lockie Furguson comes into attack; Pant punches third ball for a four; 8 runs of the over; KKR bowlers have managed to keep things tight;
DC 44/2 in 7 overs (Pant 16 (19b), Iyer 18 (18b)
6:00 PM IST: Quiet over; Nagarkoti concedes just 3 runs; End of powerplay; DC 36/2 in 6 overs (Pant 9 (14b), Iyer 17 (17b)
5:55 PM IST: Rishabh Pant gets going in style deposits Prasidh Krishna's second ball of the fifth over for SIX!!!; Under pressure Krishna has now conceded two free hits of consecutive no balls, thankfully escapes with DC failing to take advantage of free hits.
DC 33/2 in 5 overs (Pant 7 (10b); Iyer 16 (15b);
5:48 PM IST: Two Fours by Shreyas Iyer as he welcomes Kamlesh Nagarkoti into the attack;
3.3 FOUR picks the gap at square; 3.4 Four; Outside off, steps out and same result;
DC: 21/2 4 overs (Iyer 15, Pant 0)
5:40 PM IST: WICKET!!! and a big one for KKR; Pat Cummins strikes again, Shikhar Dhawan misses the line as ball uproots the off-stump
Dhawan b Cummins 6 (6b, 1x4); DC 13/2 after 3 overs
5:37 PM IST: Shikhar Dhawan gets into the act hammers Prasidh Krishna last ball of the second over ovee cover point; 8 runs came of second over; DC 12 for 1 in 2 overs;
5:32 PM IST: End of first over; Delhi Capitals: 4/1 in 1 over (S Iyer 4, Shawan 0);
5:28 PM IST: Pat Cummins STRIKES of the first ball, traps Ajinkya Rahane plumb lbw;
Rahane lbw Cummins 0 (1b); DC: 0/1 in 0.1 overs
5: 25PM IST: DC starting the chase in a minute. They let KKR off the hook and now have a daunting task ahead; Shikhar Dhawan has been in form and a lot will depend on him to set-up this chase
5:14PM IST: Marcus Stoinis finshes with a wicket removes Morgan of last ball; KKR will be very happy with the score; KKR 194 /6 20 overs ( Nitish Rana 81, Sunil Narine 64, Eoin Morgan 17, A Nortje 2 for 27, M Stoinis 2 for 41);
5:11PM IST: Marcus Stoinis removes Nitish Rana top edge caught by Deshpande
Rana c Deshpande b Stoinis 81 (53b, 13x4, 1x6)
5:06 PM IST: Morgan gets holds of the fifth ball of the Rabada's over; Result SIX; Next ball. placed for FOUR as KKR 14 runs of 19th; KKR 184/4 19 overs (Morgan 17(8b), Rana 71(48b)
5:03 PM IST: KKR skipper Eoin Morgan hammers FOUR of Nortje first ball; Rana keeps going from other end hits a four of last ball; Nine come of 18th over; KKR 170/4 18 overs (Rana 69, Morgan 5)