GT vs KKR IPL 2023: The 13th league match of the 16th season of IPL was very exciting, in which the team of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) chased 205 runs against the defending champions Gujarat Titans (GT) at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. In this match, the Kolkata team needed 29 runs to win in the last over, in which Rinku Singh, after getting a single on the first ball, hit 5 consecutive sixes in the next 5 balls to give the team a thrilling victory. Rinku’s bat saw an explosive inning of 48 runs in 21 balls in this match.
Venkatesh Iyer and Nitish Rana’s partnership brought Kolkata back into the match
Chasing a score of 205 runs in this match, the Kolkata Knight Riders team did not have a good start and the team lost its first wicket in the form of Rahmanullah Gurbaz at the score of 20. After this, on the score of 28, the team got another blow in the form of Narayan Jagadishan, who returned to the pavilion after scoring only 6 runs.
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From here, Venkatesh Iyer, along with captain Nitish Rana, took the team’s score to 43 for the loss of 2 wickets in the first 6 overs. After this, both the players together started the effort to get the Kolkata team back in this match and for the third wicket made a brilliant fast partnership of 100 runs in 55 balls. Kolkata’s team got the third blow on the score of 128 in the form of captain Nitish Rana, who returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 45 runs in 29 balls.
Rashid Khan’s hat-trick turned the match towards Gujarat
Venkatesh Iyer, along with Rinku Singh, tried to maintain the pace of runs, but he also returned to the pavilion after playing an inning of 83 runs in 40 balls. After this, the bowling of Rashid Khan, who was captaining in this match for the Gujarat team, got to see the amazing bowling, who worked to turn the match towards Gujarat by taking 3 consecutive wickets in the first 3 balls of the 17th over of the innings.
Rashid Khan did the work of sending Andre Russell, then Sunil Narine and then Shardul Thakur to the pavilion on the first ball. After this, in the last 2 overs, the Kolkata team needed 43 runs to win.
Rinku Singh scored 40 runs in 7 balls and gave a thrilling victory to Kolkata
In this match, when everyone felt that the Gujarat team would easily win the match, Rinku Singh tried to keep Kolkata’s hopes of victory alive by hitting fours and sixes in the last two balls of the 19th over. Work done. After this, on the first ball of the 20th over, Umesh Yadav took 1 run and gave the strike to Rinku. Rinku made the match exciting with a long off on the second ball and then a six over deep backward square leg on the third ball.
Rinku then completely turned the match towards Kolkata by sending the fourth ball over long off and the fifth ball over long on for a six. On the last ball, KKR needed 4 runs to win and Rinku Singh did the work of giving the team a thrilling victory by reaching this ball for a six.
Vijay Shankar played the best innings from Gujarat.
If we talk about the innings of Gujarat Titans in this match, Sai Sudarshan played a brilliant inning of 53 runs in 38 balls, while Vijay Shankar’s bat also saw a blistering 63 runs in 24 balls. 4 fours and 5 brilliant sixes were included. In this match, Sunil Narayan took 3 wickets while Suyash Sharma took 1 wicket for Kolkata.
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