IPL 2024: Delhi Capitals heart broken by Kolkata Knight Riders
In the IPL match at Eden Gardens on Monday, the Kolkata Knight Riders defeated the Delhi Capitals by two wickets due to the brilliant performances of Varun Chakraborty and Phil Salt. Kolkata’s bowlers, led by Varun with three wickets, restricted the Delhi team to 153 for 9 wickets in 20 overs with their first bowling.
Phil’s stormy fifty against Delhi Capitals
After that, with the stormy half-century of opener Phil Salt, i.e., 68 runs on 33 balls, the host team registered an easy victory by scoring 157 runs for three wickets in 16.3 overs. With this victory, Kolkata also strengthened its position in second place in the points table. The Night Guard Riders have 12 points with six wins in nine matches and are in second place. The Delhi team is in sixth place with 10 points in 11 matches.
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Half-Century partnership
For the Knight Riders, Shalat played an inning of 68 runs on 33 balls, studded with 5 sixes and 7 fours. He gave a solid start to the team by making a partnership of 79 runs with Sunil Narayan for the first wicket. After this, both of them got out within 17 runs and returned. Even Rinku Singh could not survive.
But after that, captain Shreyas Iyer made 33 not out and Venkatesh Iyer made 26 not out and made an unbroken partnership of 57 runs for the fourth wicket to help the team reach the target.
Bowler’s curb
Before this, the host bowlers bowled extremely well. This can be gauged from the fact that the highest score for Delhi was 35 runs by Kuldeep Yadav. Varun took three wickets, Harshit Rana took two wickets, and Vaibhav Arora took two wickets. There was no big partnership from Delhi in front of the bowling.
Didn’t like batting first
Pant won the toss and decided to bowl first, which did not prove to be right. Prithvi Shaw hit three fours in the first over of Mitchell Starc, but in the next over, Arora was caught by Phil Salt, and then Jack Fraker made Garg hit sixes and fours on consecutive balls, but Venkatesh was caught at deep square leg on the next ball. Iyer was caught. Arora opened the account with a six but was bowled on the next ball, due to which Delhi’s score became 36 runs for 3 wickets.
Pant and Porel handled the crisis
In such a crisis, Delhi captain Pant took charge of the team with Porel. Pant hit a four on Arora, while Abhishek Porel welcomed Harshit Rana with two fours and a six on consecutive balls. Then Rana gave the fourth blow to Delhi by bowling Porail, both of them added 31 runs for the fourth wicket. Delhi scored 67 runs for three wickets in the power play.
Captain got life support
Pant was lucky on the score of 18 runs when Rana dropped his catch at salt fine leg on Chakraborty’s first ball. However, Pant could not take advantage of this opportunity and was caught by Knight Riders captain Shreyas Iyer on Chakraborty’s ball. Pant now had hopes for Christian Stepp, who was in good form. But even this could not do anything. Chakraborty returned Strux to the pavilion in the next over by getting him caught by Salt. Delhi’s century was completed in 13 overs.
When the teams of the Lucknow Super Giants and Mumbai Indians take the field on Tuesday, the aim will be to heal the wound of the previous defeat with victory. The position of the Lucknow Super Giants in the IPL is much better than that of Mumbai. Kurukshetra will be the venue for the match, Lucknow is the home ground of the Super Giants. In such a situation, there will be a lot of pressure on Mumbai. At the same time, there will be a challenge to win against Lucknow and Mumbai.
The Super Giants team had lost the last match at home to Rajasthan by seven wickets. In batting, he had prepared a score worth fighting for, but in bowling, he remained helpless. After the loss, the Lucknow team management sat in the hotel for several rounds on Sunday and brainstormed about their bowling. Captain KL Rahul has also admitted that he made a mistake in using the bowlers properly.
On Tuesday, the Gents will enter the field with full strength. Even though Lucknow is not able to do well in batting, sometimes Rahul, sometimes Stoinis, sometimes De Kock, and sometimes Puran are batting. Statistics show that the Lucknow Super Giants have a good winning record when batting first. He has registered 22 wins in 29 matches so far in the IPL.
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