IPL 2021 - Match 21: KKR [126/5] defeat PBKS [123/9] by 5 wickets

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Time : 2:00 PM GMT, 7:30 PM LOCAL

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Squads:

Punjab Kings Squad: KL Rahul(w/c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Prabhsimran Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Shahrukh Khan, Deepak Hooda, Jhye Richardson, Riley Meredith, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohammed Shami, Moises Henriques, Chris Jordan, Mandeep Singh, Dawid Malan, Jalaj Saxena, Murugan Ashwin, Sarfaraz Khan, Fabian Allen, Saurabh Kumar, Ishan Porel, Utkarsh Singh, Darshan Nalkande, Arshdeep Singh, Harpreet Brar

Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Eoin Morgan(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna, Harbhajan Singh, Shakib Al Hasan, Ben Cutting, Karun Nair, Pawan Negi, Kuldeep Yadav, Gurkeerat Singh Mann, Sheldon Jackson, Sandeep Warrier, Tim Seifert, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Venkatesh Iyer, Shivam Mavi, Vaibhav Arora

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[Firebat]

Kolkata Knight Riders have won the toss and have opted to field

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Nitish Rana, Shubman Gill, Rahul Tripathi, Sunil Narine, Eoin Morgan(c), Dinesh Karthik(w), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Prasidh Krishna, Varun Chakravarthy

Punjab Kings (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w/c), Mayank Agarwal, Chris Gayle, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Moises Henriques, Shahrukh Khan, Chris Jordan, Mohammed Shami, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshdeep Singh

 

[The cricket enthusiast]

Shivam mavi 3 overs just 9 runs conceded

 

[guna]

Kings team is very very poor.

KL Rahul blows hot and cold. Mayank is even worse. Gayle is too old now. The rest like Hooda, Pooran play well once every 10 games.

 

[Justcrazy]

KKR has bowled well so far here , they need to keep it tight

 

[Justcrazy]

46 . 3

11 overs to go

Punjab would be looking for at least 80 runs from those 11 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

SIX

Punjab need some more of those.

 

[Justcrazy]

OUT

Narine gets Agarwal , bug wicket at this stage

 

[Justcrazy]

OUT

Narine gets another wicket , KKR has got wickets at regular intervals.

 

[Saurav]

PBKs are Zimbabwe of IPL

Poor except one or two upsets

 

[Justcrazy]

91 / 6

24 balls left for Punjab to make impression

 

[Justcrazy]

KKR has bowled well here , Punjab would be looking to bat out full 20 overs here

 

[Third Man]

Seeing Prasidh Krishna for the first time. Good talent. Has height and bowls a heavy ball. They should keep an eye on him for tests.

 

[Justcrazy]

OUT

Punjab loose their 8th wicket

 

[Justcrazy]

SIX

Jordan gets that away

 

[Justcrazy]

124 required from 120 balls for KKR .

Gill needs to bat through here , this is ideal situation for him.

I would like to see Narine open the batting and play a cameo

 

[DHONI183]

IPL 2021 | PBKS vs KKR | Match 21 | Ahmedabad | 26th April 2021 | Match Discussion

That was one of the greatest catches of all times ever by Bishnoi! That catch alone deserves to end up on the winning side. Had an incredible amount of ground to run. Wow! I´m blown away, lierally!

 

[Justcrazy]

24 runs partnership so far , they need this to carry on here

 

[Justcrazy]

Narine has to be replaced by Cutting here , KKR have good Indian spinners in the Squad , Kuldeep , Negi one of them can played

 

[naseem]

Just crazy is really crazy

 

[Justcrazy]

KKR even struggling to chase this )

Its a comical team

Gill needs to be sacked .

 

[Justcrazy]

Good over for KKR after long time , this would have reduced the pressure

 

[Justcrazy]

50 runs partnership, some sort of sanity!

 

[Justcrazy]

KKR need 33 runs in 42 balls. RRR: 4.71

KKR just need to play risk free cricket here

 

[Justcrazy]

RUN Out )

Both teams trying best to loose here

 

[Justcrazy]

KKR one shot away from a win , a much needed one

 

[Justcrazy]

KKR won by 5 wickets (with 20 balls remaining)

 

[DHONI183]

IPL 2021 | PBKS vs KKR | Match 21 | Ahmedabad | 26th April 2021 | Match Discussion

The slow and sedate start by Punjabi, despite having not lost even one wicket, ended up costing them the game. Really poor batting by the openers. KL Rahul really needs to assess the pace that he´s batting at this season. Not good. He can do better, definitely.

 

[Hasan123]

Vital win for KKR. They needed that win. You could tell by the reaction of the players after the game how important was to win. Let’s see if they can go on a run now.