NEW DELHI: Young Shubman Gill, who scored his maiden IPL fifty, and skipper Dinesh Karthik powered Kolkata Knight Riders to a complete six-wicket victory over Chennai Super Kings on the Eden Gardens on Thursday. With 5th win from 9 video games, KKR moved to 3rd with ten issues in the 2018 Indian Premier League standings.
Scorecard | As it happened
Gill and Karthik added an unbroken 83 runs off simply 36 balls as hosts KKR chased down the aggressive 178-run goal in 17.4 overs. Gill remained now not out on 57 off 36 balls as he hit two sixes and 6 fours, while Karthik took simply 18 balls to attain unbeaten 45 with the help of a six and 7 fours.
CSK suffered their 3rd defeat of the season and slipped to second in the issues table.
IPL 2018 Points Table
KKR hit a highway block early in their run chase as pacer Lungi Ngidi dismissed in-form Chris Lynn (12) in the first actual over after the batsman hit back-to-back sixes. Sunil Narine, who used to be dropped two times in two balls by means of Ravindra Jadeja in the second over, then smacked three barriers off Ngidi as KKR reached 32/1 in three overs.
KM Asif removed Robin Uthappa (6) in the 5th over, but Gill smacked three fours off Shane Watson to take KKR to 56/2 after six Powerplay overs.
Jadeja rectified his previous errors by means of brushing aside Narine in the seventh over, but by means of then the West Indian scored 32 off 20 balls with the help of two sixes and 4 fours.
Gill and Rinku Singh steadied the chase as they took the house aspect to 90/3 on the midway mark. Rinku (16) although didn't closing lengthy as he used to be blank bowled by means of veteran Harbhajan Singh in the 12th over.
Gill then along with his captain Karthik larger the tempo in the 15th over as the duo smacked Asif for three sixes and scored 21 runs to take KKR to 141/4. In the following ball, Gill hit a 4 off Jadeja to attain his fifty off simply 32 balls. The left-armer conceded 14 runs in the over as the equation modified to 23 off 24 balls. But the two KKR batsmen wanted simply ten more balls to take the staff house.
Earlier, Narine-led KKR spinners impressed ahead of CSK's inspirational captain MS Dhoni's past due flourish guided his aspect to 177/5. Dhoni once once more propped up the full with an unbeaten 43 from 25 balls that integrated 4 sixes and one 4.
Narine returned with impressive figures of 2 for 20, while Piyush Chawla grabbed 2 for 35 as the duo bowled 22 dot balls in the center overs to stay CSK's batting in check.
Young pacer Shivam Mavi also impressed along with his tempo and jump but went wicketless giving away 21 runs in three overs as CSK scored bulk of their runs against veteran Australian left-arm pacer Mitchell Johnson who leaked 51 runs in 4 overs.
Against the batting firepower of CSK, it used to be a tidy KKR bowling that used to be on display after Karthik opted to chase.
Watson (36) impressed up front against Johnson, who leaked 10 and 19 runs in his first two overs. But teenager Mavi put the brakes from the other end appearing very good keep an eye on along with his tempo and used to be now not afraid to pitch the ball quick against CSK's opening duo of Watson and Faf du Plessis (27).
KKR controlled to get a breakthrough inside the powerplay with Chawla brushing aside Du Plessis as the guests reached 57/1 in six overs.
Karthik used Narine wisely, first introducing him in the Powerplay after which gave two in the center overs. Narine's 11th and 15th overs were the most important as the Trinidadian dismissed Watson (36) for the seventh time in T20 suits and likewise removed Rayudu (21), the two leading rungetters of CSK.
Suresh Raina (31) also failed to attain large after getting a get started as he used to be dismissed by means of Kuldeep Yadav. Dhoni then finished CSK's innings on a prime as he added 55 runs for the 5th wicket with Jadeja (12) in 5.1 overs.
Raina, alternatively, achieved a private milestone turning into the leading rungetter with 4776 runs in IPL history, surpassing Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli (4767).
Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 180/4 in 17.4 overs (Shubman Gill 57*; Harbhajan Singh 1/20) beat Chennai Super Kings 177/5 (MS Dhoni 43*; Sunil Narine 2/20) by means of six wickets
Scorecard | As it happened
Gill and Karthik added an unbroken 83 runs off simply 36 balls as hosts KKR chased down the aggressive 178-run goal in 17.4 overs. Gill remained now not out on 57 off 36 balls as he hit two sixes and 6 fours, while Karthik took simply 18 balls to attain unbeaten 45 with the help of a six and 7 fours.
CSK suffered their 3rd defeat of the season and slipped to second in the issues table.
IPL 2018 Points Table
KKR hit a highway block early in their run chase as pacer Lungi Ngidi dismissed in-form Chris Lynn (12) in the first actual over after the batsman hit back-to-back sixes. Sunil Narine, who used to be dropped two times in two balls by means of Ravindra Jadeja in the second over, then smacked three barriers off Ngidi as KKR reached 32/1 in three overs.
KM Asif removed Robin Uthappa (6) in the 5th over, but Gill smacked three fours off Shane Watson to take KKR to 56/2 after six Powerplay overs.
Jadeja rectified his previous errors by means of brushing aside Narine in the seventh over, but by means of then the West Indian scored 32 off 20 balls with the help of two sixes and 4 fours.
Gill and Rinku Singh steadied the chase as they took the house aspect to 90/3 on the midway mark. Rinku (16) although didn't closing lengthy as he used to be blank bowled by means of veteran Harbhajan Singh in the 12th over.
Gill then along with his captain Karthik larger the tempo in the 15th over as the duo smacked Asif for three sixes and scored 21 runs to take KKR to 141/4. In the following ball, Gill hit a 4 off Jadeja to attain his fifty off simply 32 balls. The left-armer conceded 14 runs in the over as the equation modified to 23 off 24 balls. But the two KKR batsmen wanted simply ten more balls to take the staff house.
Earlier, Narine-led KKR spinners impressed ahead of CSK's inspirational captain MS Dhoni's past due flourish guided his aspect to 177/5. Dhoni once once more propped up the full with an unbeaten 43 from 25 balls that integrated 4 sixes and one 4.
Narine returned with impressive figures of 2 for 20, while Piyush Chawla grabbed 2 for 35 as the duo bowled 22 dot balls in the center overs to stay CSK's batting in check.
Young pacer Shivam Mavi also impressed along with his tempo and jump but went wicketless giving away 21 runs in three overs as CSK scored bulk of their runs against veteran Australian left-arm pacer Mitchell Johnson who leaked 51 runs in 4 overs.
Against the batting firepower of CSK, it used to be a tidy KKR bowling that used to be on display after Karthik opted to chase.
Watson (36) impressed up front against Johnson, who leaked 10 and 19 runs in his first two overs. But teenager Mavi put the brakes from the other end appearing very good keep an eye on along with his tempo and used to be now not afraid to pitch the ball quick against CSK's opening duo of Watson and Faf du Plessis (27).
KKR controlled to get a breakthrough inside the powerplay with Chawla brushing aside Du Plessis as the guests reached 57/1 in six overs.
Karthik used Narine wisely, first introducing him in the Powerplay after which gave two in the center overs. Narine's 11th and 15th overs were the most important as the Trinidadian dismissed Watson (36) for the seventh time in T20 suits and likewise removed Rayudu (21), the two leading rungetters of CSK.
Suresh Raina (31) also failed to attain large after getting a get started as he used to be dismissed by means of Kuldeep Yadav. Dhoni then finished CSK's innings on a prime as he added 55 runs for the 5th wicket with Jadeja (12) in 5.1 overs.
Raina, alternatively, achieved a private milestone turning into the leading rungetter with 4776 runs in IPL history, surpassing Royal Challengers Bangalore skipper Virat Kohli (4767).
Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 180/4 in 17.4 overs (Shubman Gill 57*; Harbhajan Singh 1/20) beat Chennai Super Kings 177/5 (MS Dhoni 43*; Sunil Narine 2/20) by means of six wickets
IPL: Gill, Karthik star as KKR beat CSK by six wickets
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May 04, 2018
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