In the battle of spinners Kolkata bowlers outplayed their Chennai counterpart because the guests first restricted MS Dhoni and co. to a below-par 144 for six. Nitish and Rinku then produced a shocking 99-run match-winning fourth wicket partnership, denying the hosts spinners a single wicket, chasing down the goal with 9 balls to spare.
The spectacular win was Kolkata’s sixth of the season as they joined the 12-point site visitors within the factors desk. Chennai, alternatively, regardless of the defeat stayed at second spot with 15 factors.
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IPL 2023: Clinical KKR beat CSK by 6 wickets
Rana remained unbeaten on 57 off 44 balls whereas Rinku made 54 off 43 deliveries to arrange KKR’s chase after they misplaced their first three wickets for 33 runs contained in the fifth over.
KKR completed at 147 for 4 in 18.3 overs with Rana main from the entrance after benefiting from a dropped probability.
KKR’s trigger was helped to a big extent by an excellent bowling effort earlier by spin duo of Varun and Narine, who did beautifully and picked up two wickets every.
As It Happened
Rana and Rinku, each left-handers, confirmed obligatory expertise and persistence on a cheesy pitch to negate the affect of CSK spinners after the house staff had posted a reasonable 144 for six in 20 overs.
The match-winning partnership between Rana and Rinku ended when the latter was run out by a direct hit from Moeen Ali.
CSK spinners — Ravindra Jadeja, Maheesh Theekshana and Moeen — couldn’t do any harm after Deepak Chahar had offered the preliminary breakthroughs to depart KKR at 33 for 3.
CSK struck an early blow when Chahar received Rahmanullah Gurbaz (1) as he did not preserve his square-drive down and was nicely caught by Tushar Deshpande near the boundary.
After six overs, KKR had been 46 for 3 with Chahar having picked up all of the three wickets to fall — Gurbaz, Jason Roy (12) and Venkatesh Iyer (9).
Rana received a life on 18 when Matheesha Pathirana dropped a catch working in from the boundary off Moeen.
In the thirteenth over bowled by Moeen, Rana performed two very good photographs on the off-side to select up boundaries and adopted it up with a number of extra cracking strikes within the fifteenth over by Maheesh Theekshana.
Earlier, talismanic Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s choice to drop down the order backfired as CSK misplaced wickets at common intervals to be restricted to the modest rating.
Dhoni, who got here out to bat no.7 place, remained unbeaten on 2 off 3 balls.
Opting to bat, CSK had been 72 for 5 in within the eleventh over earlier than Shivam Dube underlined his utility, hammering a 34-ball 48 (1×4, 3x6s) to assist the hosts considerably recuperate within the firm of Ravindra Jadeja (20 off 24).
The duo shared 68-run stand for the sixth wicket to take CSK near the 150-run mark, which at one level of time seemed out of attain on a sluggish pitch.
Spin duo of Narine (2/15) and Chakravarthy (2/36) had been the decide of the bowlers for KKR and so they had been ably supported by Shardul Thakur (3-0-15-1) did and Vaibhav Arora (1/30).
CSK had been 99 for 5 after 16 overs as KKR bowlers, particularly the spinners, saved issues tight and struck at common intervals.
Narine and Chakravarthy did the harm in the course of the innings earlier than Dube and Jadeja launched a fightback.
After a fast begin, Chakravarthy broke by way of for KKR, getting Ruturaj Gaikwad (17, 13 balls, 2×4) to edge one to Arora within the fourth over as CSK raced away to 31 within the fourth over.
Devon Conway and Ajinkya Rahane maintained the tempo of scoring, regardless of not going bang-bang, and scored 52 runs within the first six overs.
Conway earned a reprieve when he received a LBW choice overturned through DRS after being adjudged out off Chakravarthy. Rahane fell making an attempt to power the tempo, unable to clear the boundary off Chakravarthy.
Conway top-edged a pull to Rinku Singh within the deep off Thakur after making 30. Ambati Rayudu’s poor season continued as he fell for simply 4 to provide Narine his first wicket.
The West Indian spinner then castled a struggling Moeen (1) to cut back CSK to 72 for five within the eleventh over.
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Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com