KKR vs PBKS Match Highlights And Report-IPL: Sixes and fours rained at the Eden Gardens on Friday night as Punjab Kings recorded the highest successful run-chase in T20 cricket, touching the target of 262 against the Kolkata Knight Riders.
Jonny Bairstow cracked a century around blockbuster half-centuries from Prabhsimran Singh and Shashank Singh as PBKS won with 8 wickets in hand.
KKR vs PBKS Match Highlights And Report-IPL
Sam Curran, the PBKS captain, won the toss and elected to bowl first. The pair of Salt and Narine started as they had done all season, smashing 76 runs in the powerplay. The most expensive over of the powerplay came off pacer Kagiso Rabada, who leaked 21 runs in the 4th over. Rabada came for more in the 8th over and conceded 22 runs.
Harshal Patel was similarly expensive, conceding 37 runs in his first two overs. Narine brought up his half-century in 23 balls and Salt in 25 balls. The duo racked up 137 runs in 10 overs before their stand was broken by Rahul Chahar with Narine’s (71 off 32) dismissal; Salt (75 off 37) soon followed, but they had given a huge platform to the rest of the batters. The two KKR openers hit a combined 10 sixes and 15 fours.
KKR were 169/2 at the 13-over mark. The next three batters did their job superbly, and there was no respite for the Punjab bowlers. Venkatesh Iyer’s strike rate of 169 in his innings of 39 off 23 balls was the slowest of KKR’s top five.
Andre Russell, promoted to number 4, whacked two fours and as many sixes in his 24 (12). Questions were raised when KKR captain Shreyas Iyer came ahead of Rinku Singh in the 16th over, but Iyer justified it by clobbering 28 runs in only 10 balls with the help of three maximums. KKR ended with a huge total of 261.
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If KKR’s innings was carnage, PBKS’ innings was brutalism in which they never had a bad period of play. If Salt and Narine scored 76 runs in the powerplay, PBKS openers Prabhsimran Singh and Jonny Bairstow went even further to plunder 93 runs in the first six overs with the young Indian batsman blasting an 18-ball half-century.
Chameera was hit for 23 runs in the 3rd over, while the biggest over of the powerplay was the sixth: Bairstow tore into Anukul Roy for 24 runs. However, Prabhsimran got run out on the last ball of the powerplay as he looked for a quick, unnecessary single.
Bairstow didn’t relent: the Englishman raised his fifty in 23 balls and continued rattling boundaries to reach a three-figure score in 45 balls. Number 3 batter Rilee Rossouw scored 26 (16), but his wicket came as a blessing in disguise for Punjab as that brought in Shashank Singh, and boy did he massacre the KKR bowlers.
Bairstow had reached his century at the end of the 16th over but managed to score eight more runs while facing only three more balls. This is because Shashank at the other end absolutely murdered the chase with 8 sixes and two fours in his jaw-dropping knock of 68* (28), and he hit the winning runs as PBKS gunned down 262 with 8 balls to spare! Five of KKR’s six premier bowlers had an economy of more than 13 runs an over.
Score summary: Kolkata Knight Riders 261/6 in 20 overs (Phil Salt 75, Arshdeep Singh 2/45); Punjab Kings 262/25 in 18.4 overs (Jonny Bairstow 108*, Sunil Narine 1/24). PBKS defeated KKR by 8 wickets.
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