Like Bangladesh, Bengalis in Kolkata also celebrated the Bangla New Year on Sunday (April 14). Where Kolkata Knight Riders added a new dimension to that celebration. Shreyas Iyer’s team blew away Lucknow Super Giants at Eden Gardens.
Kolkata beat Lucknow by 8 wickets in their fifth match in IPL. Gautam Gambhir’s disciples took the victory with 26 balls and 8 wickets in hand after coming down to bat against the target of 162 runs given by Lucknow.
With this victory, Kolkata retained the second place in the points table. 8 points for Iyer’s team after winning 4 out of 5 matches. Sanju Samson’s Rajasthan Royals are at the top with 10 points after playing one match more than them.
Chasing the target, Kolkata took 22 runs in the first over. Samar Joseph, who stormed the ball in his international debut, gave 10 extra runs in that over. However, after the initial shock, Lucknow returned to the match very quickly. Mohsin Khan sent back Sunil Narine in the next over. Mohsin also made Raghuvanshi his victim in the fourth over.
Shreyas Iyer took the lead in the second wicket. From the beginning, he formed a big partnership with Phil Salt, who batted a lot. In the end, this pair could not break by Lucknow. Salt-Iyer took the team to the port of victory by making an impeccable pair of 120 runs off 76 balls.
Salt was unbeaten in the end after scoring 89 runs off 47 balls with 3 sixes and 14 fours. Besides, 38 runs came from Iyer’s bat.
Earlier Lucknow put up a collection of 161 runs with the bat of Lokesh Rahul (39) and Nicholas Pooran (45). The Lucknow batsmen could not make any big pair in the entire innings on the tricky wicket of Kolkata. In the end, Pooran made a storm with the bat. But Mitchell Starc stopped him in the last over and kept the target within reach.
Starc took 3 wickets for 28 runs after bowling 4 overs for Kolkata. Sunil Narine took 1 wicket with 17 runs in 4 overs. Varun Chakraborty, Vaibhav Arora, and Andre Russell were among those with one wicket each.
Lucknow Super Giants – 161/7 (20.0)
Kolkata Knight Riders – 162/2 (15.4)
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 8 wickets
Player of the match – Philip Salt
Philip Salt
Kolkata Knight Riders | Shreyas Iyer (c), Philip Salt (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Mitchell Starc, Ramandeep Singh, Harshit Rana, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy |
Lucknow Super Giants | KL Rahul (c & wk), Quinton de Kock, Ayush Badoni, Nicholas Pooran, Ravi Bishnoi, Krunal Pandya, Mohsin Khan, Marcus Stoinis, Shamar Joseph, Deepak Hooda, Yash Thakur |
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