In the 42nd match of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders made a big record on the basis of brilliant half-centuries by Phil Salt and Sunil Narayan. He made the highest score in 10 overs in the history of IPL. This score is the 5th highest score in the history of IPL.

Salt played a half-century of 75 runs in 37 balls with the help of 6 fours and 6 sixes. Sunil Narayan played a half-century inning of 71 runs in 32 balls with the help of 9 fours and 4 sixes. Let us tell you that Salt was not bought by anyone in the IPL 2024 auction. He came as a replacement for Jason Roy.

Kolkata's biggest score after 10 overs in IPL

137/0 vs Punjab Kings, 2024

135/1 vs Delhi Capitals, 2024

126/2 vs Royal Challengers Bangalore, 2017

Highest score after first 10 overs of IPL innings

158/4 – SRH vs DC, Delhi, 2024

148/2 – SRH vs Mumbai Indians, Hyderabad, 2024

141/2 – MI vs SRH, Hyderabad, 2024

138/4 – DC vs SRH, Delhi, 2024

137/0 – KKR vs Punjab Kings, Kolkata, 2024

135/1 – KKR vs DC, Visakhapatnam, 2024

Highest partnership for KKR in IPL (any wicket)

184* – Gautam Gambhir & Chris Lynn vs GL, Rajkot, 2017

158 – Gautam Gambhir & Robin Uthappa vs RPS, Pune, 2017

152* – Gautam Gambhir & Jacques Kallis vs RR, Jaipur, 2011

138 – Sunil Narine & Phil Salt vs PBKS, Kolkata, 2024

136 – Manvinder Bisla & Jacques Kallis vs CSK, Chennai, 2012 Final

The 138-run partnership between Narine and Salt was the 8th 100-plus opening partnership for KKR in the IPL, and the first since the 105-run partnership between Narine and Lynn against RCB in Bengaluru in 2017.

Playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders: Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Dushmantha Chameera, Varun Chakraborty, Harshit Rana.

Playing XI of Punjab Kings: Jonny Bairstow, Sam Curran (captain), Riley Rousseau, Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper), Shashank Singh, Ashutosh Sharma, Harpreet Brar, Harshal Patel, Kagiso Rabada, Rahul Chahar, Arshdeep Singh.

Impact players of Punjab: Prabhsimran Singh, Rishi Dhawan, Vidhath Kawarappa, Shivam Singh, Prince Choudhary.

Kolkata Impact Players: Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Rahmanullah Gurbaz.