Kolkata Knight Riders have levelled Mumbai Indians’ all-time document within the Indian Premier League after registering a cakewalk win over Delhi Capitals at Eden Gardens on Monday, April 29. The Knight Riders gunned down an under-par goal of 154 with relative ease as they registered a seven-wicket win over the Capitals.
DC suffered a batting failure and have been restricted to a complete of 153/9 with none of their prime eight attending to even 30. It was solely Kuldeep Yadav, who made 35 and helped the guests cross 150 on the finish.
Notably, this was KKR’s 51st win at Eden Gardens in IPL historical past, which brings them equal to Mumbai Indians, who’ve as many wins on the Wankhede.
Most wins at a venue in IPL (together with Tremendous Over wins)
51 – MI at Wankhede
51 – KKR at Eden Gardens
50 – CSK at Chennai
41 – RCB at Bengaluru
DC opted to bat first as skipper Rishabh Pant stated the pitch was more likely to decelerate and assist the spinners. It helped the spinners as KKR’s Varun Chakaravarthy took three wickets for 16 runs and Narine snared a scalp. However DC didn’t had sufficient runs on the board to try to replicate what the KKR spinners did. Additionally, Pant launched the spinners – Axar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav fairly late into the defence and proper after the powerplay however the recreation was greater than half over by then. KKR had raced away to 79/0 from the primary six overs and despite the fact that Axar and Kuldeep took three wickets between them, KKR have been by no means in a spot of hassle.
Below the watchful eyes of Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer, KKR chased down the goal with 21 balls to go. Salt made a fiery 33-ball 68, whereas Shreyas and Venkatesh made 33 from 23 balls and 26 from 23 deliveries, respectively.
KKR’s Enjoying XI:
Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh , Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
DC’s Enjoying XI:
Prithvi Shaw, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Rasikh Dar Salam, Lizaad Williams, Khaleel Ahmed
