IPL 2024: Pant and Stubbs’ fifty went in vain, KKR’s big win by 106 runs over DC

Visakhapatnam (Uttam Hindu News): Captain Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs scored entertaining fifties for Delhi Capitals (DC), but Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) continued their winning streak with a massive 106-run win in the 16th match of IPL 2024 at the ACA-VDCA Stadium on Wednesday. kept. Chasing 273 runs was a difficult task for DC, but Pant scored 55 runs in 25 balls with five sixes and four fours. While Stubbs hit eight fours in 32 balls, helping the hosts score 54 runs before being all out for 166 runs in 17.2 overs.

After their batsmen scored 272 runs, KKR’s impressive bowling from Mitchell Starc and Vaibhav Arora to Andre Russell, Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine ensured that the visitors’ 106-run win now takes them to the top of the points table. Will go. This is the first time that KKR has started the IPL season with three consecutive wins.

The move to bring in Arora as an impact player was beneficial for KKR as they removed Prithvi Shaw, who was caught at mid-on with an excellent low catch. Starc took his first wicket of the season in the form of Mitchell Marsh, who square-driven but hit it straight to cover-point. Arora managed to take his second wicket when Abhishek Porel top-edged a pull at short fine leg. Starc also got his second wicket when his stumps were clipped by David Warner, reducing DC’s score to 33/4.

Stubbs started with four consecutive fours off Arora and welcomed Chakravarthy with sixes over mid-wicket and mid-on and completed his half-century with Pant for the fifth wicket. Although the spinners put brakes on DC’s scoring, Pant took 28 runs from Venkatesh Iyer. He hit trademark hooks and pick-up shots for sixes, while also flicking, slicing, whipping and hitting four fours, including completing a half-century off 23 balls.

But Chakraborty overpowered Pant when he mistimed the slog-sweep and was caught at cover. After this the spinner dismissed Axar Patel on the very next ball. Stubbs hit two sixes and a four to complete his half-century before being dismissed by Chakravarthy. Narine, Arora and Russell took the remaining three wickets to give KKR a big win.

Brief Scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 272/7 in 20 overs (Sunil Narine 85, Angkrish Raghuvanshi 54; Anrich Nortje 3-59, Ishant Sharma 2-43) beat Delhi Capitals 166/7 in 17.2 overs (Rishabh Pant 55, Tristan Stubbs 54) , Vaibhav) Arora 3-27, Varun Chakraborty 3-33) defeated by 106 runs.