KKR vs DC: On April 3, the 16th match of IPL 2024 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals in Visakhapatnam. KKR scored 272 runs while playing first. Apart from the half-centuries of Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell’s stormy innings of 41 runs also took Kolkata to a big score. While chasing the target, Delhi Capitals had a very bad start from which they could not recover till the end. Although DC captain Rishabh Pant scored 55 runs and Tristan Stubbs played a half-century innings of 54 runs, but could not save the team from a 106-run defeat.
KKR has the second highest score in the history of IPL.
Phil Salt and Sunil Narine started the innings for KKR. Although Salt returned to the pavilion after scoring only 18 runs, but after that there was a partnership of 104 runs between Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi for the second wicket. On one hand, Narine played a stormy inning of 85 runs in 39 balls, which included 7 fours and 7 sixes. Whereas Angkrish scored 54 runs playing 27 balls in his debut innings in IPL. He hit 5 fours and 3 sixes in this innings. In the last overs, Andre Russell made 41 runs and Rinku Singh also made an important contribution by playing a cameo inning of 26 runs in 8 balls. Kolkata defeated Delhi’s bowlers by scoring 135 runs in the first 10 overs and 137 runs in the last 10 overs.
Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs’ hard work went in vain
The beginning of the innings was very bad for Delhi Capitals. DC had lost 4 important wickets within the first 33 runs. After that, there was a 93-run partnership between Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs for the fifth wicket, but it proved to be insufficient to take DC to victory. Pant played an important inning of 55 runs in 25 balls and Stubbs played an important inning of 54 runs in 32 balls. After that the team kept losing wickets continuously, due to which Delhi had to face a big defeat of 106 runs.
Dominance of KKR bowlers
Apart from batting, Kolkata Knight Riders also maintained their dominance in bowling. Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets for 33 runs in his 4 overs. At the same time, Mitchell Starc has also opened his wicket account in IPL 2024. He took 2 wickets for 25 runs in 3 overs. Meanwhile, Vaibhav Arora also impressed, who took 3 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs. Sunil Narine and Andre Russell also took one wicket each.
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