NEW DELHI: Powered by Varun Chakaravarthy‘s three-wicket haul and Phil Salt‘s commanding half-century, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) clinched a convincing 7-wicket victory towards Delhi Capitals (DC) of their IPL 2024 encounter on the iconic Eden Gardens.
Chasing a goal of 154 runs, KKR’s batsmen made gentle work of the overall, reaching the mark in simply 16.3 overs. Salt’s explosive innings, scoring 68 runs off 33 balls which included 7 fours and 5 sixes, set the tone for the chase, leaving little for captain Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer to do within the last stretch.
Regardless of Axar Patel‘s spin brilliance, claiming 2 wickets for 25 runs, DC discovered themselves unable to defend the modest whole set by Rishabh Pant‘s workforce.
With this victory, KKR solidified their place on the No. 2 spot on the IPL 2024 factors desk with 12 factors, whereas Delhi Capitals languished on the sixth place with the identical variety of factors.
Salt was fairly happy with the efficiency of the KKR bowlers and desires to maintain backing himself in terms of bat aggressively at first.
“Good to be contributing. We have now had run of residence video games, good to have that continuity of situations. Needed to bounce again from a troublesome final recreation. Happy to see the bowlers put in that form of efficiency, actually happy for them. (On his attacking method) It’s high-risk however additionally it is about placing the percentages in your favour and never taking the dangers you do not need to. You simply should hold backing your self and hold taking the precise choices,” Salt mentioned after the match.
“Very useful to maintain on it first and see what it’s doing. So, if you come out, you have got a reasonably good concept of how the floor is taking part in. (On his conversations with Narine) Off discipline, we’ve amusing. On the sphere, not lots. We normally do the speaking a day earlier than. He (Narine) doesn’t discuss a lot however he’s a deep thinker of the sport. (On them taking turns to assault) That can be a part of the communication. If one in every of us will get going, you feed the strike to the opposite individual. Good that we’re on the identical web page like that,” Salt added.
Chasing a goal of 154 runs, KKR’s batsmen made gentle work of the overall, reaching the mark in simply 16.3 overs. Salt’s explosive innings, scoring 68 runs off 33 balls which included 7 fours and 5 sixes, set the tone for the chase, leaving little for captain Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer to do within the last stretch.
Regardless of Axar Patel‘s spin brilliance, claiming 2 wickets for 25 runs, DC discovered themselves unable to defend the modest whole set by Rishabh Pant‘s workforce.
With this victory, KKR solidified their place on the No. 2 spot on the IPL 2024 factors desk with 12 factors, whereas Delhi Capitals languished on the sixth place with the identical variety of factors.
Salt was fairly happy with the efficiency of the KKR bowlers and desires to maintain backing himself in terms of bat aggressively at first.
“Good to be contributing. We have now had run of residence video games, good to have that continuity of situations. Needed to bounce again from a troublesome final recreation. Happy to see the bowlers put in that form of efficiency, actually happy for them. (On his attacking method) It’s high-risk however additionally it is about placing the percentages in your favour and never taking the dangers you do not need to. You simply should hold backing your self and hold taking the precise choices,” Salt mentioned after the match.
“Very useful to maintain on it first and see what it’s doing. So, if you come out, you have got a reasonably good concept of how the floor is taking part in. (On his conversations with Narine) Off discipline, we’ve amusing. On the sphere, not lots. We normally do the speaking a day earlier than. He (Narine) doesn’t discuss a lot however he’s a deep thinker of the sport. (On them taking turns to assault) That can be a part of the communication. If one in every of us will get going, you feed the strike to the opposite individual. Good that we’re on the identical web page like that,” Salt added.
