New Delhi. The IPL 2022 season is now heading towards its conclusion. In such a situation, as the season progresses, the excitement of the matches is also increasing. In this episode, on Wednesday, there was an exciting match between Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and Lucknow Super Giants (LSG). In this match, Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and decided to bat first, thanks to the stormy innings of KL Rahul and Dekak, they made a huge target of 210 runs without losing a wicket. The team of Kolkata Knight Riders, who came to chase, faced the fight till the last ball. But she could score only 208 runs. Due to this the team of Lucknow Super Giants won this match by 2 runs. Now Lucknow team led by KL Rahul has reached the playoff with 18 points and Kolkata Knight Riders team is out in the race for playoff after losing this match. After all this, if Kolkata had not made some mistakes in tomorrow’s exciting match, they might have won this match.
Major reasons for KKR’s defeat
However, in the match held on Wednesday, the Kolkata Knight Riders team has been eliminated in this season of IPL 2022 after losing to the team of Lucknow Super Giants. But in this match, Kolkata won the hearts of crores of cricket lovers by performing brilliantly. In such a situation, if we talk about the reasons for which KKR had to face defeat, then those reasons are as follows.
Rinku Singh’s dismissal
In this match, if the team of Kolkata, who came out to chase a huge target of 210 runs, showed the best game, then their finisher is Rinku Singh. Captain Shreyas Iyer played the most innings of 50 runs for Kolkata. After that Rana – 42, Rinku Singh – 40 and Billings – 36 runs. The most influencing innings of all this was that of Rinku Singh. Rinku Singh played a blistering innings of 40 runs off 15 balls. But he got out in the 5th ball of the last over. Actually, at that time KKR needed 3 runs in 2 balls. In such a situation, Rinku’s dismissal became heavy for Kolkata Knight Riders.