Kolkata Knight Riders 235 for 6 (Narine 81, Salt 32, Raghuvanshi 32, Naveen 3-49) beat Lucknow Super Giants 137 (Stoinis 36, Rana 3-24, Varun 3-30, Russell 2-17) by 98 runs
In a spectacular display of all-round performance, Sunil Narine led Kolkata Knight Riders to a commanding victory, thrashing Lucknow Super Giants by 98 runs at Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Batting first after winning the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders capitalized on the opportunity, thanks to Narine's explosive innings. Sunil Narine smashed 81 off 39 deliveries and Ramandeep Singh got only six balls to face and smashed 25 in those.
Narine warmed up with five fours, then started getting the big hits going at the end of the fourth over, bludgeoning a Mohsin Khan short ball over deep square-leg, clubbing Krunal Pandya over deep midwicket not long after, and later thrashing Yash Thakur over the square-leg boundary. In the middle overs, he dealt almost exclusively in sixes, and by the end of his stay, he had walloped seven, to go with six fours.
In addition, Phil Salt, Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Shreyas Iyer played aggressive innings. All of which meant that Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) surged to 235 for 6 in their 20 overs, which in Lucknow - one of the lower-scoring venues in IPL 2024 - was always going to be incredibly difficult to surpass.
In the bowling department, Narine continued to excel, returning figures of 1 for 22 in his quota of four overs. He played a crucial role in restricting the Lucknow Super Giants' batting lineup.
Harshit Rana emerged as the standout bowler for Kolkata Knight Riders, picking up 3 wickets for 24 runs in 3.1 overs. His contributions further bolstered KKR's dominant performance as Lucknow Super Giants were bundled out for just 137 runs.
The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) innings didn't really take off. There was a 50-run second-wicket partnership between KL Rahul and Marcus Stoinis, but even that went at too slow a pace (they took 33 balls) to cause serious problems for KKR. Once that stand was broken, the innings fell apart quickly, the last nine wickets falling for 67 runs, as the required rate ballooned out of control.
Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana took three wickets each. Andre Russell took two. And Ramandeep claimed two catches, the first of which was one of the most spectacular of the season. Speeding towards the boundary from point, he kept his eyes on a leading edge that had gone high into the air, and put in a spectacular dive to get his hands on a ball whose trajectory he did not seem like he would inters
In a spectacular display of all-round performance, Sunil Narine led Kolkata Knight Riders to a commanding victory, thrashing Lucknow Super Giants by 98 runs at Ekana Cricket Stadium.
Batting first after winning the toss, Kolkata Knight Riders capitalized on the opportunity, thanks to Narine's explosive innings. Sunil Narine smashed 81 off 39 deliveries and Ramandeep Singh got only six balls to face and smashed 25 in those.
Narine warmed up with five fours, then started getting the big hits going at the end of the fourth over, bludgeoning a Mohsin Khan short ball over deep square-leg, clubbing Krunal Pandya over deep midwicket not long after, and later thrashing Yash Thakur over the square-leg boundary. In the middle overs, he dealt almost exclusively in sixes, and by the end of his stay, he had walloped seven, to go with six fours.
In addition, Phil Salt, Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Shreyas Iyer played aggressive innings. All of which meant that Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) surged to 235 for 6 in their 20 overs, which in Lucknow - one of the lower-scoring venues in IPL 2024 - was always going to be incredibly difficult to surpass.
In the bowling department, Narine continued to excel, returning figures of 1 for 22 in his quota of four overs. He played a crucial role in restricting the Lucknow Super Giants' batting lineup.
Harshit Rana emerged as the standout bowler for Kolkata Knight Riders, picking up 3 wickets for 24 runs in 3.1 overs. His contributions further bolstered KKR's dominant performance as Lucknow Super Giants were bundled out for just 137 runs.
The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) innings didn't really take off. There was a 50-run second-wicket partnership between KL Rahul and Marcus Stoinis, but even that went at too slow a pace (they took 33 balls) to cause serious problems for KKR. Once that stand was broken, the innings fell apart quickly, the last nine wickets falling for 67 runs, as the required rate ballooned out of control.
Varun Chakravarthy and Harshit Rana took three wickets each. Andre Russell took two. And Ramandeep claimed two catches, the first of which was one of the most spectacular of the season. Speeding towards the boundary from point, he kept his eyes on a leading edge that had gone high into the air, and put in a spectacular dive to get his hands on a ball whose trajectory he did not seem like he would inters
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