Delhi Capitals defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 4 wickets in an exciting match. David Warner, Rovman Powell and Axar Patel all played important innings for Delhi. While Kuldeep Yadav was amazing in bowling. He took 4 wickets. Nitish Rana played stormy innings for Kolkata. He scored 57 runs. While Umesh Yadav took 3 wickets. Batting first, Kolkata had given a target of 147 runs. Delhi got it in 19 overs.
Prithvi Shaw and David Warner came to open for DC, pursuing KKR’s goal. During this, Prithvi was out for love on the first ball. While Warner played some stormy innings. He scored 42 runs on 26 balls with the help of 8 fours. Lalit Yadav scored 22 runs on 29 balls. Mitchell Marshan contributed 13 runs. Captain Rishabh Pant continued after scoring just 2 runs.
Axar Patel hit well. He scored 24 runs on 17 balls with the help of 2 fours and a six. Rovman Powell hit brilliantly for the team. He scored 33 not out of 16 balls. During this he hit 3 sixes and a four. While Shardul Thakur remained undefeated with 8 runs. In this way, Delhi achieved the goal in 19 overs with the loss of 6 wickets.
Umesh Yadav played brilliantly for Kolkata. He took 3 wickets for 24 runs in 4 overs. Sunil Narine took a wicket for 19 runs in 4 overs. He also completed his 150 wickets in IPL. Tim Southee took a wicket for 19 runs in 4 overs.
After losing the toss, going to bat first, Kolkata scored 146 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in 20 overs. During this, Nitish Rana played a stormy tackle. He scored 57 runs on 34 balls with the help of 4 fours and 3 sixes. While captain Shreyas Iyer chipped in 42 runs. Shreyas faced 37 balls and hit 4 fours. Rinku Singh played an important inning of 23 runs. Apart from this, none of the batsmen could do anything special.
While bowling for Delhi, Kuldeep Yadav took 4 wickets. He conceded just 14 runs in 3 overs. Mustafizur Rahman pitched well at the end. He took 3 wickets for 18 runs in 4 overs. Chetan Sakaria and Axar Patel also earned a wicket each.