Kolkata Knight Riders Beats Lucknow Super Giants In Super Over: Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium witnessed a close contest between Lucknow Supergiants and Kolkata Knight Riders in which KKR team won the Super Over.

KKR’s slow innings

Lucknow Supergiants captain Rishabh Pant won the toss and invited Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first. KKR had a very bad start, team openers Ajinkya Rahane (10) and Tim Schiffert (0) were dismissed cheaply. Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who came at number three, was declared out under the ‘Obstructing the Field’ rule after scoring 9 runs. Cameron Green showed some courage by scoring 34 runs, but he soon became the victim of Mohsin Khan, Rovman Powell could also contribute only 1 run.

Rinku Singh’s storm

When Kolkata Knight Riders were in trouble, Rinku Singh’s explosion was seen, playing a responsible innings, he scored a brilliant 83 runs in 51 balls with the help of 7 fours and 5 sixes, during which his strike rate was 162.74. Thanks to this innings, KKR managed to make a respectable score of 155/7 in the stipulated 20 overs. The last straw in LSG’s coffin was when Himmat Singh returned to the pavilion on the third ball of the 20th over with a personal score of 19 runs. the host team

Mohsin Khan’s magic

Talking about bowling, Mohsin Khan bowled the best spell of his IPL career in this match, he gave away just 23 runs at an economy rate of 5.75 in 4 overs and sent 5 Kolkata Knight Riders batsmen to the pavilion, during which one over was also maiden. Ajinkya Rahane, Tim Schiffert, Cameron Green, Rovman Powell and Anukul Roy became his victims. This brilliant bowling broke the back of KKR’s batting. Apart from Mohsin, only George Linde got wickets in the first innings.

LSG leveled the score

Chasing the target of 156 runs, Lucknow Supergiants soon suffered a setback when Mitchell Marsh became the victim of Vaibhav Arora after scoring just 3 runs. After this, there was an important partnership of 57 runs between Aiden Markram and Rishabh Pant, but then Cameron Green got Markram caught out by Rinku Singh. Captain Pant also could not last long and after scoring 42 runs in 38 balls, he was caught behind the stumps by Sunil Narine. Nicholas Pooran once again had a flop show when he was sent to the pavilion by mystery spinner Varun Chakraborty on a personal score of 9 runs.

Shami took the match to super over

Now the responsibility was on the shoulders of Mukul Chaudhary, but he became the victim of Anukool Roy by scoring only 1 run, Ayush Badoni took the chase forward but was settled after scoring 24 runs, George Linde could also contribute only 8 runs. But the host’s courage broke when Himmat Singh returned to the pavilion after scoring 19 runs on the third ball of the 20th over. Now 7 runs were needed to win on the last ball, then the batsman on strike Mohammad Shami hit a brilliant six and took the match into the super over.

Sunil Narine’s magic in super over

Nicholas Pooran and Aiden Markram came to bat on behalf of Lucknow Supergiants, Kolkata Knight Riders handed the ball to Sunil Narine, Puran became the victim of a golden duck while being clean bowled on the first ball, Pant took a run on the second ball, Markram was caught out by Rovman Powell on the third ball and thus KKR got the target of only 2 runs in the Super Over. In response to which Rinku Singh gave victory to the 3-time champions by hitting a four on the first ball.

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