LSG vs KKR: Lucknow Super Giants, batting first, scored 161 runs in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders. KKR will now have to score 162 runs to win. LSG did not have a good start as the team lost the wickets of Quinton de Kock and Deepak Hooda by the time the score was 39 runs. In such a situation, captain KL Rahul once again rescued the team from the crisis situation, who hit 3 fours and 2 sixes during his innings of 39 runs in 27 balls. Apart from him, Ayush Badoni contributed 29 runs and stormy batsman Nicholas Puran also contributed 45 runs. There was very tight bowling from KKR because out of 6 bowlers, 5 took at least one wicket each.
Nicholas Puran scored the highest 45 runs for Lucknow Super Giants. He hit 2 fours and 4 sixes in his stormy innings. Lucknow Super Giants batsmen scored 38 runs in the last 3 overs. After the 17th over, the team's score was 126 runs and looking at the run rate, it seemed as if the team would not be able to reach even the score of 150. But with the help of Puran's explosive batting in the last overs, Lucknow scored 161 runs.
KKR's tight bowling
There was tight bowling from Kolkata Knight Riders from the beginning. First Vaibhav Arora dismissed Quinton de Kock and after some time Mitchell Starc dismissed Deepak Hooda cheaply. KKR bowlers also dominated the middle overs as the bowlers did not allow any big partnership to develop between the LSG batsmen. Although Andre Russell conceded 16 runs while bowling one over, he also took one wicket. Apart from him, Mitchell Starc took 3 wickets, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakraborty also took one wicket each.
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