Bowlers and Salt shine in Kolkata's victory, crush DC by 7 wickets

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Tezzbuzz|30-04-2024

In the 47th match of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders won the match with the help of excellent performance by the bowlers and a stormy half-century by Phil Salt. Delhi Capitals (Delhi Capitals) by 7 wickets. Delhi played Kumar Kushagra in place of Prithvi Shaw as the impact player in this match. Kolkata played Angkrish Raghuvanshi in place of Chakraborty. In this match being played at Eden Garden, Delhi captain Rishabh Pant had won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved wrong.

Delhi Capitals Batting first, it scored 153 runs losing 9 wickets in 20 overs. Kuldeep Yadav scored the maximum 35 (26)* runs for the team. In this innings he hit 5 fours and one six. Captain Rishabh Pant scored 27(20). In this innings he hit 2 fours and one six. Abhishek Porel scored 18(15) runs. In this short innings, he hit 2 fours and a six. Pant and Porel made a partnership of 31 (19) runs for the fourth wicket. Varun Chakraborty took maximum 3 wickets for KKR. Harshit Rana and Vaibhav Arora took 2-2 wickets. One wicket each went to the account of Sunil Narayan and Mitchell Starc.

Kolkata team, chasing the target, won the match by losing 3 wickets in 16.3 overs and scoring 157 runs. Salt scored the most runs for Kolkata. He played a half-century inning of 68 runs in 33 balls with the help of 7 fours and 5 sixes. He scored a half-century in 26 balls. Captain Shreyas Iyer scored 33* runs in 23 balls with the help of 3 fours and one six. Venkatesh Iyer remained unbeaten after scoring 17 runs in 23 balls with the help of 2 fours and one six.

Shreyas and Venkatesh made a partnership of 57* (43) runs for the third wicket. Sunil Narayan scored 15 runs in 10 balls with the help of 3 fours. Salt and Narayan made a partnership of 79 (38) runs for the first wicket. Salt contributed more to this partnership. Akshar took maximum 2 wickets from Delhi side. One wicket went to the account of Lizad Williams.

Playing XI of Kolkata Knight Riders: Phil Salt (wicketkeeper), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty.

Playing XI of Delhi Capitals: Prithvi Shaw, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abhishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant (wk/captain), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Rasikh Dar Salaam, Lizaad Williams, Khaleel Ahmed.

Delhi Impact Players: Mukesh Kumar, Praveen Dubey, Ricky Bhui, Sumit Kumar, Kumar Kushagra.

Kolkata Impact Players: Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Suyyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz.

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