Kolkata Knight Riders win over Rajasthan Royals by a big margin of 86 runs.
The 54th match of the Indian Premier League 2021 was played yesterday between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Rajasthan Royals at Sharjah Cricket Stadium, Sharjah, in which Kolkata Knight Riders beat Rajasthan Royals by a big margin of 86 runs.
Rajasthan Royals won the toss and invited Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first, Kolkata Knight Riders batted first, started the inning very brilliantly, Shubman Gill and Venkatesh Iyer came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with a half-century partnership of 79 runs for 1st wicket, the first wicket has gone for 79 runs in 10.5 over, Venkatesh Iyer dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 38 runs with the help of 2 sxies and 3 boundaries in 35 balls, next batsman Nitish Rana came to bat, and played well with Shubman Gill, after few moments Nitish Rana dismissed just for 12 runs in 5 balls as the second wicket in 11.5 over, followed by Rahul Tripathi came to bat and played well with Shubman Gill, the third wicket has gone for 133 runs in 15.4 over, Shubman Gill dismissed after playing a brilliant half-cnetury inning of 56 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 44 balls, next batsman Dinesh Karthik came to bat, and played well with Rahul Tripathi, after few moments, Rahul Tripathi also dismissed after scoring 21 runs in 14 balls as the fourth wicket in 17.1 over, the team score was 145 runs, followed by Eoin Morgan came to bat, and he remains unbeaten for 13 runs in 11 balls with Dinesh Karthik and Dinesh Karthik also played an unbeaten inning of 14 runs in 11 balls. In this way, Kolkata Knight Riders batted first after losing the toss scored 171 runs for the loss of just 4 wickets in stipulated 20 overs, and set a target of 172 runs in front of Rajasthan Royals.
Rajasthan Royals bowlers, Chris Morris, Chetan Sakariya, Rahul Tewatia, and Glenn Phillips got 1-1 wicket.
Rajasthan Royals chasing 172 runs in the second inning, the entire team all-out just for 85 runs in the first ball of the 17th over, and lost the match by a big margin of 86 runs, Rajasthan Royals started the inning very badly, apart from Rahul Tewatia and Shivam Dube no batsman could reach the figure out of 10 runs, Rahul Tewatia played a brilliant inning of 44 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 5 boundaries in just 36 balls, and Shivam Dube scored 18 runs in 20 balls, apart from this, Glenn Phillips dismissed for 8 runs, Liam Livingstone 6 runs, Jaydev Unadkat 6 runs, Sanju Samson 1 run, Chetan Sakariya 1 run, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Anuj Rawat, and Chris Morris dismissed without scoring, and Mustafizur Rahman remains unbeaten without scoring, in this was wickets keep falling one after another, and end of the result the entire team all-out just for 85 runs in 16.1 over and lost the match by a big margin of 86 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers performed very brilliantly, Shivam Mavi took 4 wickets just for 21 runs in 3.1 over, Lockie Ferguson took 3 wickets just for 18 runs in his spell, Shakib Al Hasan and Varun Chakravarthy got 1-1 wicket.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Shivam Mavi was selected as the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant bowling took 4 wickets just for 21 runs in 3.1 over.
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