IPL 2022: A superb show by the Lucknow Super Giant pace attack led by superb efforts from Avesh Khan (3/19) and Jason Holder (3/31) helped the side clinch a clinical 75-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders at MCA Stadium in Pune on Saturday.
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IPL 2022: LSG won by 75 runs vs KKR.© BCCI/IPL
Highlights
- LSG
defeated KKR by 75 runs
- Avesh
Khan and Jason Holder were the star performers
- KKR are
now 8th in the IPL Points Table
A superb show by the Lucknow Super Giants pace attack led by superb
efforts from Avesh Khan (3/19) and Jason Holder (3/31) helped the side clinch
a clinical 75-run win over Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL 2022at MCA Stadium in
Pune on Saturday. It was an extremely forgettable day at work for Knight Riders
as none of its batters except Finch, Russell and Narine could touch double
figures and the side surrendered helplessly to the LSG attack. With this win,
LSG now take the top spot at the points table with 16 points. With half as
points as the Super Giants, KKR lay at eighth position in the table.
Chasing 177, Kolkata Knight Riders were off a poor start, losing
wicketkeeper-batter Baba Indradith at the final ball of the first over without
a duck after pacer Mohsin Khan dismissed him with help from Ayush Badoni.
This brought captain Shreyas Iyer to the crease. Even Iyer struggled
with the pace of Dushyantha Chameera and Khan and was sent packing by Chameera
after being caught by Badoni, who took another great catch.
Finch tried to rebuild the innings with the new batter Nitish Rana, but
he was also dismissed for a run-a-ball 14 by Jason Holder. With this, the
entire top order of Knight Riders was inside the pavilion.
Till the end of the powerplay, KKR's struggles with the trio of Avesh
Khan, Chameera and Holder continued. They stood at 25 at the loss of three
wickets at the end of six overs with Rana (2*) and Rinku Singh (1*).
The seventh over by Khan was a wicket maiden that sent back Rana for 2
off 11, bringing the danger man Andre Russell to the crease.
Russell had to rebuild the innings with Rinku by his side, who had
impressed with the bat in previous matches. Dre Russ, as Russell is popularly
known made an immediate impact by striking LSG pacers for huge hits, including
a Holder over that went for 25 runs.
By the end of 10 overs, KKR stood at a sub-par 64/4, needing 113 in the
last 10 overs, with Russell (35*) and Singh (5*). The 44-run stand between the
duo was finally broken in the 12th over, with spinner Ravi Bishnoi getting
Singh's wicket for only 6. In the 13th over, Khan also got the danger man
Russell out for 45 off 19, causing KKR to sink to 6/85. A couple of deliveries
later, Anukul Roy lost his wicket to Khan as well.
Sunil Narine tried to offer some resistance to the havoc wreaked by the
LSG bowling line-up but was dismissed by Holder for 22 off 12 after being
caught by Krunal Pandya.
With his dismissal, there was nothing really that rest of the KKR
batters could do as Holder sent back Tim Southee for 0 and the final batter
Harshit Rana was also run out by the duo of Badoni and Holder, bundling out the
Knight Riders for 101, with that, LSG sealed the win by 75 runs.
Avesh Khan (3/19) and Jason Holder (3/31) were the pick of the bowlers
for Super Giants. Chameera, Mohsin Khan and Bishnoi also got a wicket each.
Fiery half-century by Quinton de Knock and a quick knock by Deepak Hooda
provided Lucknow Super Giants with a total of 176/7 in the first innings
against Kolkata Knight Riders at the MCA Stadium, Pune on Saturday.
De Kock smashed 50 runs off 29 balls while Hooda played a brilliant
knock of 41 runs off 27 balls. For Kolkata, Andre Russell scalped two wickets
while Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, and Tim Southee settled for one each.
Put to bat, Lucknow faced an early blow as they lost their skipper KL
Rahul's wicket in the very first over after he was run out with only two runs
on the board. Deepak Hooda joined hands with opener Quinton de Kock and changed
the momentum of the game.
The duo smashed 66 runs off six overs and registered their highest
powerplay score of the season. De Kock then achieved his half-century in just
27 balls and took his side's score at 73/1, in the 7th over.
Kolkata had a major breakthrough in the 8th over when Sunil Narine
scalped de Kock's wicket, where he departed with the team's total at 73/2.
Hooda was joined by Krunal Pandya and the duo kept on thrashing Kolkata
bowlers.
They took their side across the 100-run mark in 11 overs, with Hooda
scoring 40 runs off 25 balls. Andre Russell then provided Kolkata with another
relief, as he sent Hooda back to the dugout in the 13th over, leaving the
team's score at 110/3.
Krunal also departed in the 15th over, after a brief inning of 25 runs.
Ayush Badoni and Marcus Stoinis joined hands at the crease and kept the
scoreboard moving for their team. Stoinis smashed a hat-trick of sixes in the
19th over by Shivam Mavi, before getting caught on the fourth delivery. The
carnage on the remaining two balls was continued by Jason Holder as he hit two
back-to-back sixes.
In the 20th over, Tim Southee dismissed Holder and conceded only four
runs, which ended Lucknow's innings at 176/7.
Brief Scores: Lucknow
Super Giants 176/7 (Quinton De Kock 50, Deepak Hooda 41, Andre Russell 2/22)
and Kolkata Knight Riders 101 (Andre Russell 45, Sunil Narine 22, Avesh Khan
3/19).
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