Visakhapatnam: Captain Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs scored entertaining fifties for Delhi Capitals, however Kolkata Knight Riders discovered it straightforward on the finish to proceed their successful run with an enormous 106-run victory in match 16 of IPL 2024 on the ACA-VDCA Stadium on Wednesday.
Chasing 273 was all the time going to be an uphill job for DC, however Pant continued to construct up on his constructive return to aggressive cricket by hitting 5 sixes and 4 boundaries in a 25-ball 55, whereas Stubbs hit eight boundaries in his 32-ball 54 to assist the hosts’ avoid wasting blushes, earlier than being 166 all out in 17.2 overs.
After their batters racked up a huge 272, efficient bowling from KKR, ranging from Mitchell Starc and Vaibhav Arora to Andre Russell, Varun Chakaravarthy and Sunil Narine ensured that the guests’ 106-run win now sends them to high place on the factors desk. It’s additionally the primary time that KKR have began an IPL season with three consecutive wins.
The transfer of bringing in Arora as an Affect Participant paid off for KKR as he eliminated Prithvi Shaw, who was caught at mid-on taking a superb low catch. Starc picked his first wicket of the season as Mitchell Marsh nailed the square-drive, however hit straight to cover-point.
Arora was nice in extracting motion off the pitch and was rewarded together with his second wicket when Abishek Porel top-edged a pull to brief superb leg. Starc additionally had his second scalp when David Warner chopped on to his stumps, leaving DC at 33/4.
Pant started to search out his groove by flicking Starc for six, earlier than bringing out a pleasant pick-up shot over deep sq. leg and pulling in the identical area off Russell. Stubbs started with back-to-back fours off Arora and welcomed Chakaravarthy with a brace of sixes over mid-wicket and mid-on to carry up the fifty of the fifth-wicket stand with Pant.
Although spinners put brakes on DC’s scoring, Pant went berserk together with his shot choice, energy and utilization of tempo by taking 28 runs off part-timer Venkatesh Iyer. He introduced out the trademark hook and pick-up pictures for sixes, whereas flicking, slicing, whipping and slashing for 4 boundaries, together with mentioning his fifty in 23 balls.
However Chakravarthy obtained the higher of Pant when he mistimed his slog-sweep and gave a catch to cowl, adopted by the spinner taking out Axar Patel on the very subsequent ball. Stubbs hit two sixes and a 4 to get his fifty, earlier than being dismissed by Chakaravarthy. From there, Narine, Arora and Russell took the remaining three wickets every to seal an enormous victory for KKR.
Transient Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 272/7 in 20 overs (Sunil Narine 85, Angkrish Raghuvanshi 54; Anrich Nortje 3-59, Ishant Sharma 2-43) beat Delhi Capitals 166 in 17.2 overs (Rishabh Pant 55, Tristan Stubbs 54, Vaibhav Arora 3-27, Varun Chakaravarthy 3-33) by 106 runs
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