Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) managed to get the much-needed win that has inched them closer to the playoff berth. With a poor start to the KKR innings, they came back strong with the bat and the ball, defeating Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by a margin of 59 runs.
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Match report: Delhi Capitals won the toss and decided to bowl first. KKR lost some of their star batsmen quite early and it was Nitish Ranaand Sunil Narine’s 122-run stand that drove KKR to 194 runs at the end of their innings.
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In return, DC were off to a shaky start, where the openers fell cheaply. Though Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer tried contributing with the bat, KKR bowlers nearly overpowered and restricted them to 135 runs at the end of their innings. KKR, thus, registered a comfortable 59-run victory in Abu Dhabi.
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Varun Chakravarthy scripts a special oneVarun Chakravarthy is the second uncapped Indian bowler to take five (or more) wickets in an IPL game after Ankit Rajpoot 514 for KXIP vs SRH, in Hyderabad, in 2018.
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KKR bowlers to take a five-wicket haul in IPLVarun Chakravarthy becomes the second KKR bowler to take a five-wicket haul in IPL after Sunil Narine.
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Rishabh Pant makes a unique recordRishabh Pant has hit 100 sixes in the IPL now. With this he becomes the quickest among Indians to reach this mark, taking only 1,224 balls. Yusuf Pathan held the previous record with 1,308 balls.
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Lowest strike-rate in IPL 2020 (150+ balls faced)Rishabh Pant adds to the club with the lowest strike-rate in IPL 2020. Currently, with a strike-rate of 118.68, he is third on the list. Aaron Finch (RCB) has the lowest strike in the list (110.50).
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