New Delhi. Three-time champion team Chennai Super Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (CSK vs KKR) by 2 wickets on the last ball on Sunday in a very exciting match of IPL-2021. Kolkata scored 171 runs for 6 wickets and Chennai got a target of 172 runs to win, which they achieved by losing 8 wickets. With this victory, the Chennai Super Kings team once again reached the top of the points table. He has 16 points from 10 matches. At the same time, KKR had to face the sixth defeat in the same number of matches and it remains at number four with 8 points.
Chennai needed 26 runs to win in the last two overs. Ravindra Jadeja showed amazing performance in the 19th over of Pacer Famous Krishna’s innings. He hit consecutive sixes on the third and fourth balls and hit fours in the last two balls. A total of 22 runs were scored in this over and the road to Chennai’s victory was also ensured. Jadeja became the victim of Sunil Narine on the 5th ball of the last over of the innings. He hit 2 fours, 2 sixes in 8 balls and contributed 22 runs. Deepak Chahar took a single off the last ball and the Chennai fans got a chance to celebrate.
Chasing the target of 172 runs, Rituraj Gaikwad and Faf du Plessis gave Chennai a great start. Both made some excellent shots and the team scored 52 runs in the powerplay. This partnership was broken by Andre Russell, when Rituraj was caught by Morgan on the second ball of the 9th over of the innings. He hit 2 fours and 3 sixes in his innings of 28 balls. Du Plessis missed a half-century and scored 43 runs on the ball of famous Krishna. He hit 7 fours in 30 balls.
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Du Plessis returned to the pavilion on the team score of 102 runs. Ambati Rayudu also could not do anything special and scored 10 runs and got bowled by Sunil Narine. He played 9 balls and hit 1 four. Rayudu and Moeen Ali added 17 runs for the third wicket. Moeen Ali was frozen and it looked like he would come back with a win but he was caught by Venkatesh Iyer on the fourth ball of the 17th over of Ferguson’s innings. He scored 32 runs in 28 balls with the help of 2 fours and 1 six.
Chennai needed 18 runs in the last 3 overs but 2 wickets fell in Varun Chakravarthy’s over. Raina was run out on the very first ball. He scored 11 runs in 7 balls with the help of 1 four, after which Varun bowled captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni on the third ball. He could only score 1 run.
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Earlier, Kolkata scored 171 runs for 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Rahul Tripathi scored the highest 45 runs for KKR. Apart from him, Nitish Rana contributed 37 not out and wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik contributed 26 runs. Nitish and Karthik added 41 runs for the sixth wicket. For Chennai, pacers Shardul Thakur and Josh Hazlewood took 2-2 wickets while Ravindra Jadeja got 1 wicket.
Half of KKR’s team had returned to the pavilion till 125 runs, after which Nitish Rana and wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik together played a role in taking the team beyond 165. Both made quick runs for the sixth wicket and added 41 runs in 18 balls. In the last over of the innings, Hazlewood got Karthik caught by Dhoni. He hit 3 fours and 1 six in his innings of 11 balls. Rana returned unbeaten on 37, who hit 3 fours and 1 six in his unbeaten innings of 7 balls.
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Kolkata got the initial blow in the very first over itself when Gill was run out. After this Venkatesh Iyer and Rahul Tripathi added 40 runs for the second wicket. Venkatesh was caught by Dhoni behind the wicket by Shardul Thakur on the personal score of 18. He hit 3 fours in 15 balls. Captain Eoin Morgan also could not do much and became the victim of Josh Hazlewood by scoring only 8 runs in 14 balls. Tripathi was bowled by Ravindra Jadeja, who hit 4 fours and 1 six in his 33-ball innings. Russell (20 runs) was victimized by Shardul Thakur, who returned to the pavilion as the team’s 5th wicket.
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