KKR Vs DC, IPL 2024: Kolkata Knight Riders Beat Delhi Capitals By Seven Wickets - As It Happened

Here are the highlights of match 47 of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2024 played between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Delhi Capitals (DC) at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Monday. The Shreyas Iyer-led KKR comfortably chased down a 154-run target with 21 balls and seven wickets in hand. DC opted to bat first and could only manage to score 153/9 in 20 overs. Kuldeep Yadav played a valiant knock of 35 not out. KKR openers started the chase with a bang and made 79 runs in the powerplay. Phil Salt smashed a 26-ball fifty. Venkatesh Iyer hit the winning six to seal the match in the 17th over. Catch the highlights of the KKR Vs DC match of the IPL 2024, here. (Scorecard | Streaming)

Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kumar Kushagra, Kuldeep Yadav, Lizaad Williams, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Rasikh Dar Salam, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Ricky Bhui, Sumit Kumar, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Lalit Yadav, David Warner, Yash Dhull, Swastik Chikara, Jhye Richardson, Ishant Sharma, Gulbadin Naib

Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Dushmantha Chameera, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Mitchell Starc, Allah Ghazanfar, Sakib Hussain, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat

The pitch is rock-hard and easy to bat on. The square boundaries are 59 metres and 71 metres respectively. The batters will target the shorter side of the boundary and bowlers will be bowling away from that area. A lot of runs are guaranteed, considering the pitch, boundaries and the form of the batters of both teams.

Delhi Capitals have won the toss and have opted to bat

Playing XIs:

Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Rasikh Dar Salam, Lizaad Williams, Khaleel Ahmed

Delhi Capitals Impact: Mukesh Kumar, Praveen Dubey, Ricky Bhui, Sumit Kumar, Kumar Kushagra

Kolkata Knight Riders: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz

Prithvi Shaw and Jake Fraser-McGurk opened the batting for Delhi Capitals and Mitchell Starc started with the first over for KKR. Shaw hit a hat-trick of boundaries to welcome Starc. He gave 15 runs from the first over.

DC - 15/0 (1)

Delhi Capitals' top-order shattered in front of Vaibhav Arora and Mitchell Starc. Arora first got rid of Prithvi Shaw, then Starc dismissed Fraser-McGurk in the next over. When they tried to make a partnership, Arora bowled Shai Hope to make them three down. Abishek Porel and Rishabh Pant are at the crease.

DC - 67/3 (6)

After coming to bowl his second over, Varun Chakaravarthy removed the set batter, Rishabh Pant on the first delivery. Delhi Capitals are five down and Tristan Stubbs has joined Axar Patel at the crease.

DC - 99/5 (12)

Varun Chakaravarthy dismissed Tristan Stubbs with the first delivery of his third over. Sunil Narine bowled Axar Patel in the next over. Kumar Kushagra came after that and was sent back to the pavilion by Chakaravarthy. DC are eight wickets down.

DC - 128/8 (16)

Delhi Capitals were once struggling at 111/8 but Kuldeep Yadav stood there at the crease and made an unbeaten 35 to take DC to a competitive total of 153 runs. Rasikh Dar Salam also played a crucial knock of 8 runs in 10 balls and supported Yadav.

DC - 153/9 (20)

Brief Score: DC - 153/9 (20)

Kuldeep Yadav - 35 (26), Rishabh Pant - 27 (20) | Varun Chakaravarthy: (4-0-16-3)

Kolkata Knight Riders started the chase on a high note with their explosive openers - Sunil Narine and Phil Salt. Lizaad Williams conceded 23 runs in his first over.

KKR - 23/0 (1)

Phil Salt has been the aggressor today and smashed the ball out of the park whichever came into his arc. He completed his half-century with a massive six off Khaleel Ahmed. Then smashed back-to-back fours to end the over with 18 runs from that.

KKR - 79/0 (6)

KKR lost another wicket while chasing and this time it was Rinku Singh, who was promoted up in the order. Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer are at the crease with just 41 runs needed in 54 balls.

KKR - 113/3 (11)

Axar Patel came to bowl his last over of the spell and conceded just seven runs to finish his spell with the bowling figures of 4-0-25-2. Venkatesh Iyer and Shreyas Iyer are taking KKR towards victory.

KKR - 141/3 (15)

Rasikh Dar Salam came to bowl the 17th over with just two runs needed and Venkatesh Iyer smashed a six to won the game for KKR. They won the match with seven wickets and 21 balls to spare.

KKR - 157/3 (16.3)

 It was a good option to bat first. As a batting unit, we didn't bat well, 150 was below par with how things were going. But we learn from our mistakes, every day is not your day. The way we were going as a team was nice (winning 4 out of their last 5 games), but these games come along in T20s. I think anything around 180-210 would have been a good score, we didn't give our bowlers enough runs to defend.

Matches: 10
Won: 8
Lost: 2

Not at all. Considering the last few matches, 200 was a par score. After the powerplay the pitch started helping the spinners, was tacky. We got a fair idea as to how it played and to tackle the tackiness. Narine still does not attend those meetings but Salt is always there, gives us his inputs and it's pure bliss to see him coming up and doing all this. He doesn't. I would not recommend him to come either. [on Chakaravarthy] He has been assessing the wicket and has been giving us inputs. The way he performed today was brilliant.  We have always been looking at it, even from the first game. The mindset is to qualify as early as possible. Just work on our work ethic and processes, don't want to look at the points table.

It was holding a bit, but as the game progressed in the 2nd innings, it was turning as well. Nothing like that, when the catch was dropped, I felt that was a better ball, and the one I got him, on other grounds, it would have gone for a six. Cricket has become a game of little margins. I liked Tristan Stubbs' wicket. I planned to bowl the leg-spinner to him and it worked out. Silence. When something doesn't work for me, he is always there. In the last game after conceding so many runs, it was a tough pill to take but the whole team motivated us. Abhishek Nayar and even Shahrukh Khan came and spoke to me, which definitely motivated us. [on the cheerleaders dancing] They should start dancing only for the sixers and not for the fours.

Kolkata Knight Riders thrashed Delhi Capitals in the home game but the points table remains the same. KKR have 12 points now and they are at the second spot like before. DC also remains in the sixth spot. We will also be taking your leave. That's all from our side. Goodnight!