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Salt flavours KKR's convincing victory over Super Giants
England opener Phil Salt belted a remarkable unbeaten 89 from only 47 balls to steer the Kolkata Knight Riders to an emphatic eight-wicket victory with 26 balls to spare in their IPL match against the Lucknow Super Giants at Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday afternoon.
Replying to LSG’s modest 161-7, Salt collected 14 fours and three sixes in a dominant display with captain Shreyas Iyer whose unbeaten 38 came at a pedestrian run-a-ball during an unbroken third-wicket partnership of 120 with Salt.
The Man of the Moment - Phil Salt - hits the winning runs 😎
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A dominant performance at home helps #KKR 💜get back to winning ways 🙌
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Opening bowler Mohsin Khan dismissed Sunil Narine (6) and Angrish Raghuvanshi in his first overs but KKR already had 42 runs on the board after just 3.1 overs and were well on their way to victory.
Narine had earlier spearheaded a fine bowling performance although he was unable to prevent fellow West Indian Nicholas Pooran giving his team something to defend with a late assault as the Kolkata Knight Riders restricted the Lucknow Super Giants to a modest total of 161-7
Narine went for just 17 runs in his four overs without conceding a single boundary and had Ayush Badoni (29) caught at deep mid wicket while Pooran’s late burst of 45 from 32 balls (2x4, 4x6) rescued LSG from a parlous 111-5.
ICYMI!
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𝗣𝗼𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗿 💪
Nicholas Pooran did his thing at the Eden Gardens with an important 45(32) 👏👏
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Lucknow’s travails began when Quinton de Kock (10) thick edged a delivery from seamer Vaibhav Arora to backward point and Deepak Hooda’s horrible form continued with a slap-drive to a wide ball from Mitchell Starc to the same position.
Captain KL Rahul (39 from 27 balls) was in fine touch until he hammered an Andre Russell delivery to deep midwicket having struck three fours and two sixes while Marcus Stoinis (10) carved two of his first four balls to the boundary before edging a Varun Chakravarty googly onto his pads from where ‘keeper Salt caught the rebound.
Mitchell Starc bowled an excellent final over collecting two wickets to finish with 3-28 from his four overs.
The home side have now won four of their five matches but remain in second place behind leaders Rajasthan Royals who have played six matches.
Fourth-placed Super Giants have six points with three wins and three losses from six matches.
Guyanese fast bowler Shamar Joseph (0-47) made his IPL debut in place of Afghan seamer Naveen-ul-Haq and endured a miserable start with 20 runs coming from his first over including six wides and two no balls.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Philip Salt (wkt), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy
Lucknow Super Giants: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul (captain / wkt), Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Yash Thakur
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