Kolkata Knight Riders produced an impressed bowling effort to limit Chennai Tremendous Kings to a lowly 103 for 9 in an Indian Premier League match right here on Friday. Despatched into bat, CSK by no means actually acquired going as they misplaced wickets at common intervals to be restricted to their lowest whole at house. Shivam Dube ( 31 not out), Vijay Shankar (29) and Rahul Tripathi (16) had been the principle run getters for CSK.
“No excuses for this,” Ravi Shastri was blunt in his evaluation whereas doing commentary for Star Sports activities.
Sunil Narine did not concede a single boundary in his miserly spell of 3-13 as a scientific efficiency of Kolkata Knight Riders’ bowlers helped them prohibit a listless Chennai Tremendous Kings to a below-par 103/9, their lowest whole at their house venue MA Chidambaram Stadium, right here on Friday.
On a black-soil pitch, spin dictated phrases from the phrase go, Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy and Moeen Ali, dropped at counter left-handed batters, picked six wickets collectively as CSK’s batting by no means acquired going.
CSK wished to bat first after dropping the toss, however did not take full benefit of their determination as they might by no means break away from the disciplined bowling by KKR bowlers. It took Shivam Dube’s unbeaten 29-ball 31 to avoid wasting CSK from being all out for his or her lowest whole (79) in IPL’s historical past.
Devon Conway started by taking two boundaries off pacer Vaibhav Arora, earlier than being dismissed for 12 when his try to reverse-sweep off Moeen resulted in him being trapped lbw in a wicket-maiden over. Within the subsequent over, CSK had been dealt one other blow when Rachin Ravindra miscued a slog off Harshit Rana and was caught at cowl.
KKR might have gotten one other wicket if Vijay Shankar wasn’t dropped by Moeen at mid-off when on zero. From there, Shankar pulled and lofted Chakaravarthy for boundaries, earlier than hoicking Moeen over mid-wicket for six. Shankar’s charmed life continued when Venkatesh Iyer dropped him at mid-wicket on 20.
With PTI and IANS inputs
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