Kolkata Knight Riders hosted the last night’s match at Eden Gardens that was against Delhi Daredevils and unlike last time, the fans of KKR didn’t returned disappointed. Kolkata Knight Reiders won the match beating Delhi Daredevils with a huge difference of 71 runs.
Before the match started, Gautam Gambhir, the skipper of DD won the toss and choose to bowl first, however this decision sort of back fired on the team as Kolkata Knight Riders scored a target of 200 runs to DD to chase.
In the first innings, Chris Lynn opened the match and scored 31 runs off 29 balls. Sunil Narine dismissed early after scoring only 1 run and that too in 4 balls. Nitish Rana gave an exceptional performance last night by scoring 59 runs in 35 balls, including 5 fours and 4 sixes.
Last night, Andre Russell, the star player of KKR gave one jaw dropping performance by scoring 41 runs in 12 balls only, including 6 sixes. While the captain, Dinesh Karthik scored 19 runs in 10 balls.
In the second innings, Gautam Gambhir scored only 8 runs in 7 balls, including 1 four. The only two players who scored good numbers were Rishabh Pant and Glenn Maxwell. Rishabh scored 43 runs in 26 balls with the strike rate of 165. He smashed 7 fours and 1 six. Maxwell, scored 47 runs in 22 balls with the strike rate of 213. He smashed 3 fours and 4 sixes.
It wasn’t just the batting of KKR, but also the team gave an exceptional bowling and fielding performance and didn’t let the team score much points. DD lost the game very severely.
Here’s how twitteratis reacted to Delhi Daredevils defeat in the match:
That’s been a rather quick slide for #DelhiDaredevils!
— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) April 16, 2018
After fine win over Mumbai, Delhi have gone to pieces again. Below par with bat and ball. KKR on the rise again. Exceptional all round show
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 16, 2018
Excellent bowling by @ShivamMavi23 . UP’s next big fast bowler to watch out for. #KKRvsDD #IPL18 #BESTvsBEST
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) April 16, 2018
Excellent bowling by @ShivamMavi23 . UP’s next big fast bowler to watch out for. #KKRvsDD #IPL18 #BESTvsBEST
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) April 16, 2018
After fine win over Mumbai, Delhi have gone to pieces again. Below par with bat and ball. KKR on the rise again. Exceptional all round show
— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 16, 2018
All out in 14 overs. DD, welcome back to your usual self.
— Saurabh Malhotra (@MalhotraSaurabh) April 16, 2018
Curran’s bowling action is a mixture of @BrettLee_58 & @AllanDonald33 ! What say ? #KKRvDD
— Vikram Sathaye (@vikramsathaye) April 16, 2018
100-plus wickets for a team in IPL:
Lasith Malinga for MI
Harbhajan Singh for MI
Sunil Narine for KKR* #KKRvDD— Umang Pabari (@UPStatsman) April 16, 2018
A day of milestones for @KKRiders! 100 IPL wickets for @sunilpnarine74! #kkrvsdd #vivoipl #vivoipl2018 #vivoiplonstar pic.twitter.com/zBLiiltrrH
— Sanjana Ganesan (@SanjanaGanesan) April 16, 2018
Excellent bowling by @ShivamMavi23 . UP’s next big fast bowler to watch out for. #KKRvsDD #IPL18 #BESTvsBEST
— R P Singh रुद्र प्रताप सिंह (@rpsingh) April 16, 2018
Shivam Mavi is bowling 145 kph …. he is 19 yrs old …. !!!! #IPL … He will play for #India …. Very soon …
— Michael Vaughan (@MichaelVaughan) April 16, 2018
DD and RCB’s games should always be scheduled on back to back days. Always helps to share the disappointment. #IPL2018
— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak) April 16, 2018
Margin of defeat equals to height difference between Gautam Gambhir and Ian Bishop #KKRvDD
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) April 16, 2018
https://twitter.com/SamreenRazzaqui/status/985939142088577024
Lesson of power hitting on display by DrayRuss @KKRiders Power, bat speed, body position and weight all moving at 156grams of leather
— Matthew Hayden AM (@HaydosTweets) April 16, 2018
It’s a good learning curve this @IPL for young @ItsShubmanGill. A step forward after India U19 success finds an opportunity amongst the big boys @KKRiders and on a massive stage in world cricket.
— Anjum Chopra (@chopraanjum) April 16, 2018
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