Punjab Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 16 runs. Today, the audience who came to Mullanpur ground must have understood what excitement is. Playing first in this match, Punjab team was all out for just 111 runs.
In response, KKR’s team could score only 95 runs. Usually, there are big scores matches on this ground, but Punjab’s bowling rescued the sweat of Kolkata batsmen despite a small target.
KKR started bad.
KKR started very poorly, chasing the target of 112 runs. Both openers were dismissed for 7 runs. Quinton de Kock was dismissed by scoring 2 runs and Sunil Naren scored 5 runs. In this low -score match, Angkrish Raghuvanshi and captain Ajinkya Rahane shared a 55 -run partnership and raised the chances of KKR’s victory. Raghuvanshi scored the highest 37 runs for Kolkata in the match. Rahane scored 17 runs.
5 wickets fell inside 7 runs
Chasing a target of 112 runs, KKR had scored 72 runs at the loss of 3 wickets at one time. After this, the order started with Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s dismissal did not stop and the Kolkata team lost 5 wickets for just 7 runs. During this, the wickets of Venkatesh Iyer, Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Ramandeep Singh and Harshit Rana fell.
Kolkata stuck in Yuzvendra Chahal’s ‘Chakravyuh’
Yuzvendra Chahal was the biggest contribution in the poor condition of the KKR team. He took 4 important wickets for just 28 runs in 4 overs. Chahal turned the match in favor of Punjab by taking the wicket of Ajinkya Rahane and especially Angkrish Raghuvanshi. Apart from this, he also took the wickets of Rinku Singh and Ramandeep Singh.
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