KKR vs CSK IPL 2023: Ajinkya Rahane, Shivam Dube lead the way as Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders to go top | Cricket News – Act Daily News

KOLKATA: It was Chennai Super Kings all the best way right here on Sunday. With the Eden Gardens carrying the color yellow, it was a ‘home away from home’ for the Mahendra Singh Dhoni-led facet which thrashed Kolkata Knight Riders by 49 runs.
The guests kind of sealed the tie within the first innings itself by establishing 235 for 4, the very best rating on this IPL, after being requested to bat first. While KKR suffered their fourth straight defeat this season, the win took CSK to the highest of the desk with 10 factors on the halfway stage of the league.
It was the same old image for KKR this season. Their bowlers as soon as once more went for runs within the Powerplay they usually misplaced each their openers — their fifth pair this season — inside the primary six overs. In distinction, openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway as soon as once more constructed a strong basis for Ajinkya Rahane and Shivam Dube to launch an onslaught for CSK later within the innings.

KKR missed the prospect to grab the initiative early when David Wiese, making his IPL debut coming rather than Litton Das, dropped Conway off his personal bowling in his first over. Conway replied proper again by lifting him off his pads for the primary six of the match that set the tone for the innings.
For a change, even the KKR spinners went for runs with the famed trio going for 101 runs. Varun Chakravarthy, who got here within the fourth over, was greeted by Conway with a straight six. Sunil Narine, launched within the seventh over, was hit for a 4 and 6 by Gaikwad.
Once a key participant for KKR, Narine appears to be shedding his shine as was not given his quota of 4 overs. With the bat, he perished for zero whereas opening the batting.

CSK misplaced their openers in fast succession with teenager Suyash Sharma offering the breakthrough by having Gaikwad clear bowled off his third supply. Left-hander Conway fell taking part in too distant from his physique to be caught at long-off by Weise off Chakravarthy after getting his fourth fifty in a row.
But there was no respite for KKR as Dube opened with consecutive sixes off Chakravarthy.
Coming in at one down, Rahane picked up his outdated franchise for some tough remedy by taking part in pictures throughout the park.

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