The 56th match of the 16th season of the Indian Premier League was played today between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals.
The match was played at Kolkata’s home ground, Eden Gardens Stadium. In this match, Rajasthan Royals defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets.
Prior to this, Rajasthan Royals’ captain Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to bowl first. After losing 8 wickets, Kolkata Knight Riders managed to score 149 runs in the allotted 20 overs.
Venkatesh Iyer scored the most runs for Kolkata Knight Riders with 57 runs. Yuzvendra Chahal took the most wickets for Rajasthan Royals. Chasing the target, Rajasthan Royals’ team achieved the target by losing only one wicket in just 13.1 overs.
Rajasthan Royals’ opener Yashasvi Jaiswal played an explosive innings of unbeaten 98 runs.
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Excellent Fielding Was Seen
During KKR’s innings, there was excellent fielding on display by the Rajasthan Royals team. KKR’s second wicket fell on the first ball of the 5th over, with Boult dismissing Rahmanullah Gurbaz who had scored 18 runs in 12 balls.
Sandeep Sharma took the best catch of Gurbaz as Boult’s full-length ball was caught by the fielder in the direction of mid-off. Sandeep Sharma made a great diving catch.
Besides catching, the Rajasthan Royals also saved many runs during the match. Hetmyer also caught a good catch of Nitish Rana who scored 22 runs off 17 balls.
How good was that catch by @SHetmyer to dismiss Jason Roy.
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