KKR vs DC Innings Highlights: Kolkata Knight Riders put the second highest total on the board in IPL history. Sunil Narine once again proved lucky for the team at the opening. Narine and Salt gave a great start to the team by making a quick partnership of 60 runs in 27 balls for the first wicket. Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came at number three, maintained this start by scoring a quick half-century. Russell did the rest. Naren played the biggest inning of 85 runs for the team.
Kolkata Knight Riders, batting first against Delhi Capitals in the 16th match of IPL 2024, scored 272/7 runs on the board in 20 overs. During this period, Delhi bowlers looked absolutely helpless. Apart from Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi played a brilliant inning of 54 runs for KKR and Andre Russell scored 41 runs at a strike rate of 215.79, Rinku scored 26 runs while batting at a strike rate of 325.
KKR won the toss and decided to bat first and they took advantage of it very well. Sunil Narine and Philip Salt gave a great start to the team. Both of them made a partnership of 60 runs (27 balls) for the first wicket. The first blow to the team came in the form of Philip Salt in the 5th over, who scored 18 (12 balls) with the help of 4 fours.
After this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came to bat at number three, made a partnership of 104 runs (48 balls) with Narine. This partnership ended with the wicket of Narine in the 13th over, who scored 85 runs in 39 balls at a strike rate of 217.95. During this he hit 7 fours and 7 sixes. Then in the next i.e. 14th over, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who was playing his debut innings of IPL, returned to the pavilion. Raghuvanshi played an inning of 54 runs in 27 balls with the help of 5 fours and 3 sixes, in which his strike rate was 200.
After this the team lost the fourth wicket in the form of captain Shreyas Iyer. Iyer returned to the pavilion in the 18th over after scoring 18 runs (11 balls) with the help of 2 sixes. Then Rinku Singh was out on the last ball of the 19th over. Rinku scored 26 runs in 8 balls by hitting 1 four and 3 sixes. After this, on the first ball of the 20th over, Ishant Sharma showed the way to the pavilion to Russell, who scored 41 runs in 19 balls, hitting 4 fours and 3 sixes. Then Ramandeep Singh (02) was out on the third ball. In the end Venkatesh Iyer was present after scoring 5* and Mitchell Starc 1*.
Delhi's bowling was like this
Enrique Norcia and Ishant Sharma took maximum 3-3 wickets for Delhi. During this, Norkia gave away 59 runs in 4 overs and Ishant gave away 43 runs in 3 overs. Apart from this, one success was achieved by Khalil Ahmed, who spent 43 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, no bowler got a wicket. Rasikh Dar Salaam scored 47 runs in 3 overs, Mitchell Marsh scored 37 runs in 3 overs, Sumit scored 19 runs in 2 overs and Akshar scored 18 runs in 1 over.
