IPL 2024: Match 16 Highlights of the Kolkata Knight Riders’ First Innings versus DC
The Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders met at Visakhapatnam. Former DC captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bat first. Rishabh Pant and his team triumphed in the previous match against the Chennai Super Kings.
For the game on Wednesday, Angkrish Raghuvanshi joined the KKR squad. The Delhi Capitals also made a change to their lineup by adding Sumit Kumar. The injury to bowler Mukesh Kumar dealt a severe setback to the national team.
In 3.4 overs, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 50 runs.
Phil Salt and Sunil Narine got off to the same start as they did against RCB. Sunil Narine eventually regained his rhythm, even though he missed the opening six balls. The West Indian struck the fourth over of the innings, taking Ishant Sharma for 26 runs.
First Powerplay: Overs 0.1–6 (Required -88/1)
Together with Phil Salt, Sunil Narine was still having fun with the bat. Tristan Stubbs finished the first stand of sixty by catching Phil Salt off Anrich Nortje.
Sunil Narine made 52 from 21 balls in the half-century.
Sunil Narine hammered the Delhi Capitals’ bowlers after scoring 47 runs in a flash during the match against Royal Challengers Bengaluru. Sunil Narine crushed Rasikh Dar for eighteen runs in his opening over before reaching fifty from twenty-one balls.
In 7.3 overs, the Kolkata Knight Riders scored 100 runs.
KKR needed just 23 balls to get their second fifty after achieving their fifty in 3.4 overs. The KKR team achieved the triple-digit mark when Axar Patel struck a six off Sunil Narine’s bat.
Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi shared a 50-run stand (off 21 balls).
The KKR hitters appear to have scored runs easily, and Sunil Narine is looking quite potent. Between the two batters, there was a fifty-run stand after the second maximum against Axar Patel.
Kolkata Knight Riders 126/1 (9 Overs) is the first strategic time-out.
Rishabh Pant and the Delhi Capitals appeared lost and hopeless as the KKR hitters pummelling them. The two-time IPL champions’ top three hitters destroyed the DC bowlers all around the stadium.
150 runs in 11 overs for Kolkata Knight Riders
Angkrish Raghuvanshi continued to unleash wild runscoring from the KKR hitters. As KKR scored 150 runs in 11 overs, Rasikh Salam Dar’s bowling was thoroughly outclassed.
Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi shared a century-run stand (85 off 39 balls).
If Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Sunil Narine could reach the hundred-run mark in just 22 balls, that meant the fifty-run stand could be reached in just 21 balls.
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Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 54 from 27 balls for his half-century.
Young Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored his first half-century in his first innings of play in the lucrative league. With an incredible start to his IPL career, the knock came off 25 balls.
200 runs in 15.2 overs for Kolkata Knight Riders
Despite losing Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi, the Delhi Capitals did not find any solace. Andre Russell’s massive six off Khaleel Ahmed helped KKR reach their 200th wicket.
Kolkata Knight Riders 205/3 (16 overs) at the second strategic time-out
Rishabh Pant’s expression was the same as it was during the first time-out. The Kolkata Knight Riders, who never let up, were consistently battering the DC bowlers.
Andre Russell (41 off 19 balls) and Shreyas Iyer shared a fifty-run stand.
The captain of the KKR, Shreyas Iyer, came to bat and amassed eighteen runs off of eleven balls. The 29-year-old did not react to Andre Russell’s rush with his bat.
250 runs in 18.2 overs for Kolkata Knight Riders
In just one week, KKR appeared determined to surpass SRH’s record-breaking greatest total in IPL history. With two sixes off of two balls against Anrich Nortje, Rinku Singh helped KKR surpass 250.
Kolkata Knight Riders end of innings total: 272/5 in 20 overs
With the quick removal of Andre Russell, Ishant Sharma curtailed the damage. The second-highest total in IPL history was achieved by Kolkata Knight Riders.
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