Lucknow Super Giants defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 runs. KKR suffered defeat in his home and this is his third defeat in five matches in IPL 2025.
In this match played at the Eden Gardens, the Lucknow team batting first and hung 238 runs on the scoreboard, in response to which Kolkata team reached 234 runs, but finally fell 4 runs behind the victory.
KKR faced defeat in his house
KKR won the toss and decided to bowl first, he also got the benefit of the home ground but still faced defeat in his own house. Chasing a huge target of 239 runs, Kolkata started poorly and opener Quinton de Kock was dismissed for just 15 runs. Later captain Ajinkya Rahane and Sunil Narine harassed the LSG bowlers and shared a 54 -run partnership in just 23 balls. Sunil Naren was dismissed after playing a stormy innings of 30 runs off 13 balls.
Captain Ajinkya Rahane’s bat also went vigorously and scored 61 runs off 35 balls, while Venkatesh Iyer also hit big shots for KKR, but was dismissed for 45 runs in the 16th over.
Despite scoring 238 runs, Lucknow won by just 4 runs.
This was the second highest score made by Lucknow Super Giants in the history of the Indian Premier League. LSG scored a huge score of 238 runs on the strength of the stormy innings of Eden Markram, Mitchell Marsh and Nicholas Puran. At one time, Kolkata scored 162 runs in 13 overs and the team needed 77 runs to win in 7 overs. Venkatesh Iyer and Captain Rahane had a very easy goal for KKR when it stood at the crease.
After the end of the 13th over, KKR could score only 39 runs in the next 5 overs, due to which his required run-rate continued to grow. Rinku Singh definitely scored a stormy innings of 38 runs off 15 balls in the last over and also scored 19 runs in the last over of the innings, but in the end KKR remained just 4 runs away from the victory.
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