[ad_1]
Kolkata Knight Riders registered a huge 106-run win over Delhi Capitals to continue their unbeaten run in the Indian Premier League 2024 on Wednesday. Sunil Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi registered quickfire fifties to help Kolkata post 272 total batting first and then impressive bowling bowled out Delhi on just 166 in Visakhapatnam.
A win also boosted Shreyas Iyer-led Kolkata to the top position in the IPL 2024 points table with three wins in their opening three games while Delhi slipped to the ninth position with three defeats in four games.
Shreyas won the toss and elected to bat first at ACA-VDCA Cricket Stadium with Angkrish Raghuvanshi making his debut for Kolkata and Sumit Kumar replacing injured Mukesh Kumar for the hosts.
Sunil Narine and Phil Salt gave Kolkata a flying start by adding 60 runs for the opening wicket in just 27 balls. Salt departed early after scoring 18 runs but Narine kept the bashing on throughout his innings. Narine and Raghuvanshi added 104 runs for the second wicket with both registering their first fifty of the season.
Narine top-scored with 85 off just 39 balls while the 18-year-old Raghuvanshi recorded 54 off 27 balls on his IPL debut. Kolkata added 135 runs in the first ten overs and reached the 200-run mark in 15.2 overs.
Kolkata lost Narine and Raghuvanshi departed in the middle overs but late cameos from Andre Russell (41 off 19 balls) and Rinku Singh (26 off 8 balls) boosted KKR to 272/7 in 20 overs, the second-highest total in IPL history. Anrich Nortje took three wickets while Ishant Sharma bagged two for Delhi Capitals.
Delhi Capitals Playing XI: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Mitchell Marsh, Rishabh Pant (c & wk), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Sumit Kumar, Rasikh Dar Salam, Anrich Nortje, Ishant Sharma, Khaleel Ahmed.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Philip Salt (wk), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Rinku Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy.
[ad_2]