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The 54th Match of the Indian Premier League 2024 was played yesterday between Lucknow Super Giants vs Kolkata Knight Riders at Bharat Ratna Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ekana Cricket Stadium, Lucknow. In which Kolkata Knight Riders beats Lucknow Super Giants by a big margin of 98 runs.
TOSS- Lucknow Super Giants won the toss and opted to bowl.
Kolkata Knight Riders Innings- Kolkata Knight Riders batted first and started the inning very well, Philip Salt and Sunil Narine came to start the inning and gave a brilliant start with a half-century partnership of 61 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket was dismissed for 61 runs in 4.2 overs, Philip Salt was dismissed after playing a brilliant quick inning of 32 runs with the help f 1 six and 5 boundaries in just 14 balls, next batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi came to bat handled the inning and played a brilliant half-century partnership of 79 runs with Sunil Narine, the second wicket was dismissed for 140 runs in last ball of the 12th over, Sunil Narine was dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 81 runs with the help of 7 sixes and 6 boundaries in just 39 balls, next batsman Andre Russell came to bat and he good strike rotate for a while with Angkrish Raghuvanshi, the third wicket was dismissed for 167 runs in 14.2 over, Andre Russell was dismissed for 12 runs in 8 balls, followed by Rinku Singh came to bat, after a few moments the fourth wicket dismissed for 171 runs in first ball of the 16th over, Angkrish Raghuvanshi was dismissed after scoring 32 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in 26 balls, next batsman Shreyas Iyer came to bat and played well with Rinku Singh, the fifth wicket was dismissed for 200 runs in last ball of the 18th over, Rinku Singh was dismissed for 16 runs in 11 balls, next batsman Ramandeep Singh came to bat and played well with Shreyas Iyer, the sixth wicket was dismissed for 224 runs in third ball of the final over, Shreyas Iyer was dismissed after scoring 23 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in just 15 balls, followed by Venkatesh Iyer came to bat and he was remains unbeaten for 1 run in 1 ball with Ramandeep Singh, and Ramandeep Singh played a brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 25 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 1 boundary in just 6 balls. In this way, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 235 runs losing 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs, and set a strong target of 236 runs for Lucknow Super Giants.
Lucknow Super Giants bowlers- Naveen-ul-Haq took 3 wickets for 49 runs in his spell, Ravi Bishnoi 1 wicket for 33 runs in his spell, Yash Thakur 1 wicket for 46 runs in his spell, Yudhvir Singh 1 wicket for 24 runs in 2 overs, Krunal Pandya was wicketless for 26 runs in 2 overs, Mohsin Khan wicketless for 28 runs in 2 overs, Marcus Stoinis also wicketless for 29 runs in 2 overs.
Lucknow Super Giants inning- Lucknow Super Giants chasing 236 runs in the second inning the entire team dismissed just for 137 runs in first ball of the 17th over and lost the match by 98 runs. Lucknow Super Giants started the inning not very well, Marcus Stoinis scored 36 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 21 balls, KL Rahul 25 runs with the help of 3 boundaries in 21 balls, Ashton Turner 16 runs in 9 balls, Ayush Badoni 15 runs in 12 balls, Nicholas Pooran 10 runs in 8 balls, apart from this, Arshin Kulkarni dismissed just for 9 runs in 7 balls, Deepak Hooda 5 runs in 3 balls, Krunal Pandya 5 runs in 6 balls, Yudhvir Singh Charak 7 runs in 7 balls, Ravi Bishnoi 2 runs in 3 balls, and Naveen-ul-Haq remained unbeaten without playing a ball. In this way, continuously wickets failed one after another, and end of the result the entire team was all-out just for 137 runs in 16.1 over and lost the match by 1 big margin of 98 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Harshit Rana took 3 wickets for 24 runs in 3.1 overs, Varun Chakaravarthy 3 wickets for 30 runs in 3 overs, Andre Russell 2 wickets for 17 runs in 2 overs, Sunil Narine 1 wicket just for 22 runs in his spell, Mitchell Starc 1 wicket for 22 runs in 2 overs, Vaibhav Arora was wicketless for 21 runs in 2 overs.
PLAYER OF THE MATCH- Kolkata Knight Riders all-rounder Sunil Narine was selected as the player of the match, he performed very brilliant batting as well as also in bowling, played a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 81 runs with the help of 7 sixes and 6 boundaries in just 39 balls, and got 1 wicket just for 22 runs in his spell.
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