A target of only 162 runs. KKR batsmen were not supposed to get much momentum to pass this target. It didn’t happen. KKR won by 8 wickets by tying Lucknow Super Giants for 161 runs at home ground Eden Gardens. Sreyash Iyer’s team reached the target in 15.4 overs (with 26 balls in hand) in the run chase.
After coming down to bat for a target of 162 runs, English opener Phil Salt played a devastating innings of 89 runs off 47 balls. He hit 3 sixes with 14 boundaries. The Kolkata team won easily with his devastating batting.
Kolkata captain Sreyash Iyer won the toss and invited Lucknow to bat at the Eden Gardens. The Lucknow batsmen fell under the cannon of the KKR bowlers after being invited to bat. Nicholas Pooran’s 45 off 32 balls in the last over saw their score reach 161 with the loss of 7 wickets.
Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets with 28 runs for KKR. Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty and Andre Russell took 1 wicket each.
In response, KKR quickly lost the wickets of Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvansi. Narin scored 6 runs, Raghuvansi scored 7 runs. After losing 2 wickets for 42 runs, Phil Salt and Sreyash Iyer put on an unbroken, unbeaten 120-run partnership.
Along with Phil Salt’s 89, Sreyash Iyer also remained unbeaten on 38 off 38 balls. He hit 6 boundaries.
KKR is in second place with 8 points after 5 matches. Rajasthan remained at the top with 10 points in 6 matches. Lucknow Super Giants have won 3 out of 6 matches. They are in 5th place with 6 points.
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