IPL24: KKR blow away LSG to virtually secure playoffs spot , Narine shines

 



KKR continued their golden run in this IPL season. After beating Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede after 12 years , KKR completely outplayed LSG at Lucknow and won by 98 runs in some style in another impressive away win . 



Losing the toss and batting first  KKR  were off to a blistering start with both Salt and Narine in breathtaking strokemaking form . The ball was running to all parts of the ground . Both Salt and Narine in particular were hitting 6s for fun with sublime timing .  Salt finally departed for 32 in just 14 balls being caught behind of Naveen . Young Raghuvanshi looked in great touch as he was rotating the strike to give a rampaging Narine more strike . Finally after a spectacular 81 runs off 39 balls with 7 sixes  Narine was dismissed off a skier by Bishnoi . Russell (12) had a brief stay while Raghuvanshi finally fell for 32 off 26 balls . The crowd favourite Rinku Singh (16) again had a brief stay after looking good but it was Shreyas Iyer (23) who played a breezy knock while Ramandeep Singh blasted a rapid 25 off just 6 balls to take KKR to an imposing target of 235 in 20 overs . Naveen with 3 wickets was the most successful bowler for LSG


In reply LSG did look good for a while despite early loss of Kulkarni (9) to Starc . Rahul & Stoinis in particular looked to attack the bowling but Rahul (25) could not step up in his strike rate and was caught in the deep off Harshit Rana . Soon Deepak Hooda (5) was lbw to Varun Chakravarty and finally Stoinis (31) fell to Russell which was a huge blow to LSG . The LSG batting was in total disarray by now and once  the dangerous Pooran (10) was caught behind of Russell , the rest of the batting simply caved in . LSG were skittled out for 137 and therefore lost by a whopping 98 runs which will dent their NRR . Now LSG needs to win at least 2 of their last 3 games to qualify for the playoffs .


For KKR  Varun Chakravarty & Rana took 3 wickets each and Russell took 2 wickets . Sunil Narine was the player of the match for his all round show ( 81 runs, 1/22 in 4 overs )

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