IPL2024: Kolkata won by 8 wickets due to Salt stormy innings.

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Kolkata. Opening batsman Phil Salt’s unbeaten 89 runs off just 47 balls with 14 fours and 3 sixes helped Kolkata Knight Riders register their fourth win in five matches in the IPL by beating Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets with 26 balls to spare on Sunday. of.

This first match today has been completely one-sided. After batting, Lucknow Super Giants team was seen struggling in bowling also and Kolkata easily won the match by eight wickets with 26 balls remaining. They have got an excellent opener in Phil Salt who can create problems for any bowling attack. He played an unbeaten inning of 89 runs in 47 balls.

Only Nicholas Puran could play a good innings for Lucknow due to which the team was successful in scoring 161 runs. With Puran’s explosive innings of 45 runs, Lucknow Super Giants scored a struggling score of 161 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs in the 28th match of IPL. But this score was not enough to stop Kolkata. Kolkata achieved the target by scoring 162 runs for 2 wickets in 15.4 overs. Lucknow suffered its third defeat in six matches.

However, Kolkata lost two of its top order batsmen till the score of 42. Sunil Narayan scored 6 runs and Angkrish Raghuvanshi became the victim of Mohsin Khan after scoring 7 runs. But after this, Salt got good support from its captain Shreyas Iyer. Both of them made an unbeaten partnership of 120 runs for the third wicket and took Kolkata to the destination of victory.

Salt hit the winning four off the bowling of Kuldeep Bishnoi. He hit 14 fours and three sixes in a total of 47 balls, while Shreyas scored 38 runs in 38 balls with the help of 6 fours.

Earlier, the credit for taking Lucknow Super Giants to 161 runs goes to Nicholas Puran’s innings of 45 runs in 32 balls. If he had not hit some big hits at such a time, it would have seemed difficult for Lucknow to even reach 150. Lucknow also looked dominant in this match and could not increase its run rate. The spinners maintained their dominance and when Lucknow planned to hit after 10 overs, two quick wickets fell in the form of Rahul and Stoinis. Starc finally returned to form and took three wickets.

Kolkata won the toss and took the right decision to bowl first. Despite captain KL Rahul’s inning of 39 runs off 27 balls with 3 fours and 2 sixes, Lucknow lost its 5 wickets till 111 runs in the 15th over. Ayush Badauni, who had scored a half-century in the last match, was out as the fifth batsman this time after scoring 29 runs in 27 balls.

But Puran scored 45 runs in 32 balls hitting 2 fours and 4 sixes and was out as the sixth batsman on the score of 155. Mitchell Starc got Pooran caught by wicketkeeper Salt. Arshad Khan was out on the last ball of the innings after scoring 5 runs. Starc took 2 wickets in the 20th over of the innings and took 3 wickets for 28 runs in a total of 4 overs.

Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narayan, Varun Chakraborty and Andre Russell took 1 wicket each.

–IANS

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