On Sunday, the Kolkata Knight Riders defeated the Chennai Super Kings by a score of six wickets to keep their hopes of winning the Indian Premier League alive. Both captain Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh scored fifty runs in the victory.
Kolkata lowered Chennai’s score to 144-6, which was a total that they were able to surpass thanks to an important partnership of 99 runs between Rinku (54) and Rana (57 not out).
Spinners Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine both claimed two wickets to help set up the win for Kolkata, which allowed them to move up one position to seventh in their effort to finish in the top four of the league stage and earn a spot in the play-offs.
Rana commented after his team’s sixth victory in 13 matches, “I said at the toss that if we do well in all three departments, then our chances are good,” in reference to the team’s prospects of winning.
Champions four times over The defending champion Gujarat Titans continue to lead the 10-team standings, with Chennai continuing to sit in second place and on track to advance to the play-offs.
After Chennai speed bowler Deepak Chahar’s third strike to send back Jason Roy, Kolkata appeared to be in trouble when they were 33-3. However, the left-handed combo of Rinku and Rana took the side home with nine balls to spare.
Rinku, who rose to fame in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with his five sixes off of the final five balls to help Kolkata pull off a miracle win a month ago, hit his third fifty of the season before being run out. His performance helped Kolkata pull off a win against all odds. He was honored with the man of the match award.
Rana was able to achieve his fifty and hit the winning runs despite the fact that a catch was lost on the 18th ball of the game.
Champions four times over Shivam Dube’s unbroken 48 helped to resuscitate Chennai’s innings after they got off to a solid start but then went on a slide that took them from 61-1 to 72-5 in the space of 19 balls.
It was superstar and captain M.S. Dhoni who brought the house down in his team’s penultimate league game at M.A. Chidambaram Stadium. Dube kept up the fight in his 34-ball knock that was packed with three sixes, but it was Dhoni who knocked the house down.
Dhoni, who many people believe is playing in his final Indian Premier League match, stepped in to a thunderous cheer as he faced four balls, among which were a wide and a no-ball, on which he was bowled but ended on two not out.
Royal Challengers Bangalore improved their prospects of making the play-offs after thrashing Rajasthan Royals by 112 runs in the opening match of the day. Faf du Plessis, the team’s captain, and Glenn Maxwell both contributed to the victory.
In Jaipur, Bangalore’s bowlers bowled Rajasthan out for 59 runs after Du Plessis scored 55 and Maxwell hammered a 33-ball 54 to lead the team to 171-5.
Left-arm quickness from South Africa Rajasthan was bowled out for the third-lowest score in the history of the Indian Premier League thanks to Wayne Parnell’s three wickets, one of which was Jos Buttler, who was out for a duck.
In 2017, Bangalore’s score of 49 against Kolkata was the lowest ever recorded in the IPL. Even though they have yet to win an Indian Premier League championship, Bangalore have moved up two spots to take the fifth and final play-off spot out of the ten teams in the standings.
“Really good for our net-rate,” Du Plessis remarked about the situation. “We were given the opportunity to bat first and we sized up the situation. We batted with the advantage and believed that a score of 160 would be a fair total.
After suffering the most comprehensive defeat of any team in the T20 event, the defending champions from Rajasthan were relegated to the sixth and final spot in the league stage.