LSG vs KKR Match Report: Kolkata Knight Riders achieved their 8th win this season by defeating Lucknow Super Giants by 98 runs in the match played at their home ground. In the 54th match of the 17th season of IPL, the KKR team, batting first after losing the toss against Lucknow Super Giants, made a big score of 235 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs, in which Sunil Narine scored 81 runs. An excellent innings was seen. While chasing this target, the Lucknow team was limited to only 137 runs in 16.1 overs. In bowling for KKR, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets each. With the victory in this match, KKR team has now occupied the first position in the points table.
Lucknow’s innings ended after Rahul and Stoinis returned to the pavilion.
Lucknow Super Giants team, which came to chase the target of 236 runs, did not have a good start in which they lost their first wicket at the score of 20 in the form of Arshin Kulkarni who became the victim of Mitchell Starc after scoring only 9 runs. After this, Marcus Stoinis, who came to bat, along with KL Rahul started the process of scoring runs rapidly, together they took the team’s score to 55 runs in the first 6 overs. On the score of 70, Lucknow got the second blow in the form of captain Rahul who returned to the pavilion after scoring 25 runs. After this, continuous fall of wickets was seen from both the ends.
Lucknow Super Giants had lost 6 wickets till the score of 109 and from here it became completely impossible for them to make a comeback in the match. By bowling out Lucknow’s innings for 137 runs, KKR not only won the match by 98 runs but also almost confirmed its place in the playoffs. While bowling for KKR, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty took 3-3 wickets, Andre Russell managed to take 2 wickets while Mitchell Starc and Sunil Narine also managed to take 1-1 wicket.
Sunil Narine’s magic seen in KKR’s batting
If we talk about the innings of Kolkata Knight Riders team in this match, then Sunil Narine was amazing in it, who played a brilliant inning of 81 runs in just 39 balls with the help of 6 fours and 7 sixes. Apart from this, he scored 32 for KKR while Ramandeep Singh, who came to bat in the last overs, played an important role in taking the team’s score to 235 by playing an unbeaten inning of 25 runs facing only 6 balls. In bowling for Lucknow, Naveen Ul Haq took 3 wickets while Ravi Bishnoi, Yudhveer Singh Charak and Yash Thakur took 1 wicket each.
Achieved first position in the points table
By winning this match, the KKR team has also secured the first position in the points table of IPL 2024, which was earlier occupied by the Rajasthan Royals team. KKR has so far played 11 matches this season and won 8 in which it has 16 points and its net run rate is 1.453. Now in second place is Rajasthan Royals team, which also has 16 points but their net run rate is 0.622. Lucknow Super Giants team has directly reached fifth position in the points table after the one-sided defeat in this match. Lucknow has been able to win only 6 out of 11 matches and their net run rate is -0.371.
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