Tonight the match was won by Kolkata Knight Riders beating Rajasthan Royals by 6 wickets at the very famous Eden Gardens of Kolkata. The match was very crucial for both Rithe teams. Both the teams were on the same position at the points table before this, however, now Kolkata Knight Riders is currently sitting at
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Before the match started, Rajasthan Royals were invited to bat first by the home team as they won the toss and chose to ball first.In the first innings, the bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders gave an impeccable performance as they didn’t let the players of RR score a huge total at the scoreboard.
The openers of Rajasthan Royals made a nice start to the first innings. Joss Buttler scored 39 runs off 15 balls, while on the other hand, Rahul Tripathi scored quick 27 runs off 15 balls. Jaydev Unadkat scored 26 runs in 18 balls he played. KKR bundled up all the players of RR within 19 overs with them scoring a total of 142 runs.
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Kuldeep Yadav took four big wickets today and changed the course of the match. Andre Russell and Prasidh Krishna both of them took two wickets each.
The second innings started off with a power-packed performance from Sunil Narine who scored quick 21 runs off 7 balls, however his wicket came as a big blow to the team as he was in a very great form tonight. With the strike rate of 300, he smashed 2 fours and 2 sixes. Chris Lynn, on the other hand, scored 45 runs off 42 balls.
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Nitish Rana scored 21 off 17 runs. The skipper of Kolkata Knight Riders, Dinesh Karthik remianed unbeaten till the last ball, he scored 41 off 31 runs. Andre Russell scored 11 off 5 balls. The runs were chased wonderfully by the KKR players.
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Ben Stokes of Rajasthan Royals, gave a brilliant performance and took three big wickets today. However, the other bowlers couldn’t stop the players of KKR from chasing the total runs.
Here’s how twitterati reacted to the the great win by Kolkata Knight Riders, have a look:
Come on @KKRiders! Let’s win the next one … pic.twitter.com/92mPwMFV63
— Gauri Khan (@gaurikhan) May 15, 2018
Yes lets… https://t.co/vDOkpbEhqc
— Shah Rukh Khan (@iamsrk) May 15, 2018
Wonderful performance by the @KKRiders . Kuldeep brilliant with the ball after the early onslaught by RR and at the end of a chase if DK is unbeaten at the end, you invariably win. Top effort #KKRvsRR
— Mohammad Kaif (@MohammadKaif) May 15, 2018
Rahane as an opener—33 Average
Rahane as number 3– 14
Sanju as a number 3–Averaged 40
Sanju as number 4– 23 #RR has a knack of fiddling with the batting order quite a bit. #RR #IPL— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) May 15, 2018
@rajasthanroyals How much did that hurt RR?? #KKRvRR #IPL2018
— |Justice 4 $$R!| (@Avishekgan07) May 15, 2018
Wow @DineshKarthik fantastic finishes the game #KKRvRR
— sachikant swain (@sachikantswain) May 15, 2018
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KKR beat RR by 6 wickets. #KKRvRR #IPL2018 pic.twitter.com/Q9CTdIzrbU
— Cricket Informer (@Cric_Informer) May 15, 2018
Well Done Boys ??????#KKRHaiTaiyaar #KKRvRR
— Dr Khushboo ?? (@khushbookadri) May 15, 2018
Jeet gaye ! (KKR) ? #KKRvRR
— richa singh (@richa_singh) May 15, 2018
One more game left that too against SRH.
Need to take some rest till then.#KKRvRR— Arman (@arman6182) May 15, 2018
Captain DK finishes off it in style. Great win KKR.
#KKRHaiTaiyaar #KKRvRR
— Abhay (@TheRampShot) May 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/RoaiArjun/status/996449910076526593
Just Brilliant!!! ??
Well done… @KKRiders #VIVOIPL2018 #KKRvRR— |Justice 4 $$R!| (@Avishekgan07) May 15, 2018
2 min Silence for those, who were enjoying KKR loss after the defeat by MI. And Mocking SRK for tht loss.#KKRvRR
— Rahul R Upadhyay (@its_R2U) May 15, 2018
Yes won by 6wickets ?? #KKRvRR
— 101_ (@101Guanlin) May 15, 2018
Why dk is behaving like dhoni ?#KKRvRR
— Vaibhav Bhoyar (@VaibbhavBJP) May 15, 2018
DK has been wonderful in finishing the games since Nidas Trophy. Might have done earlier but consistent now. Superb play from @KKRiders #KKRvRR
— Srujana Konakanchi ? (@srujanak94) May 15, 2018
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