18/04Result
15th match (N), Indian Premier League at Jaipur, Apr 18 2018
KKR won by 7 wkts (7b rem)
Player of the Match
Nitish Rana
Nitish RanaKolkata Knight Riders
18/04Result
15th match (N), Indian Premier League at Jaipur, Apr 18 2018
KKR won by 7 wkts (7b rem)
Player of the Match
Nitish Rana
Nitish RanaKolkata Knight Riders

END OF OVER:
20 | 9 Runs 1 Wkt | RR: 160/8 | RR: 8.00

  • Jos Buttler24 (18b)
  • Jaydev Unadkat0 (0b)
  • Shivam Mavi4-0-40-1
  • Tom Curran2-0-19-2

Daniel: "Never felt like RR really got going at all throughout that innings and yet they still managed 160. The innings felt very disjointed - If I'd watched the game without a scoreboard I'd have thought it was a lot less."

Kapil: "Why has Russell not bowled even a single over?" -- We're hearing he might have a slight hamstring issue, and that KKR don't want to strain him by bowling him too much.

9.40pm A stop-start innings for Royals against a spin-heavy KKR attack. Chawla, Kuldeep and Rana finish with combined figures of 4 for 52 from ten overs. An off-day for Sunil Narine, and that has allowed Royals to just about get to 160. Do they have the attack to defend it against an explosive KKR line-up? Shashank will help you find out when he takes over for the start of the second innings.

19.6
0
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, no run, slower ball, full and wide outside off, and Buttler swings and misses, looking for the long-off boundary. Looked tight, but the umpire decides not to signal wide. Good last over from Mavi, stuck to his plan despite bowling all those wides, and found his rhythm in the end

Why did KKR bowl so much spin today? Gaurav Sundararaman thinks it might be because the top eight Rajasthan batsmen playing today have a SR of 127 against spin and a SR of 143 against Pace since 2015 in all T20s.

19.5
W
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, 1 run, OUT, slants it away from Buttler's off stump again - not a yorker this time but quite full again. Flat-batted down to long-off and they chance the second just to keep Buttler on strike. Mavi fails to collect the throw cleanly, but he still collects it in time to catch Kulkarni short of his crease

DS Kulkarni run out 3 (3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 100

19.4
2
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, 2 runs, gets the wide yorker right this time. Buttler reaches out and slaps it to deep point. Just about manages to turn around and hurry back for a second

If this was baseball, Buttler would get a walk with one more wide.

19.4
1w
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, 1 wide, oh no. Another wide full one - a slower one too - and it ends up waaaaay wide of off stump

Three balls to go.

19.3
0
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, no run, bangs it in short now, and gets the angle right on this occasion. Within reach of Buttler to play a shot, but perhaps not the pull he was looking for. Plays and misses
19.3
1w
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, 1 wide, and again. A misdirected wide yorker from round the wicket, ends up bowling it too wide. Karthik had been gesturing to him to bowl a wide yorker, with his right arm extended outwards
19.3
1w
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, 1 wide, looks for the wide yorker, and from that round-the-wicket angle, there's a big danger of slanting it too wide. That's what he ends up doing. Buttler doesn't even try to go after it
19.2
2
Shivam Mavi to Buttler, 2 runs, shortish, slanting away into a fifth-stump line, pulls it along the ground to the left of deep midwicket, and they hurry through for two

Round the wicket now.

19.1
1
Shivam Mavi to Kulkarni, 1 run, full outside off, Kulkarni had made himself room and threw his hands at the ball, ended up slicing it chest-high to Lynn at backward point, and he drops it. Allows Buttler to come on strike too

Rohan Bhatt: "When you are 7 down, wickets are falling like house of cards... and you have a set T20 / limited overs specialist, why would you run for a single when its a NO BALL? Butler could have done more on that EXTRA Ball! Come on common sense?" -- I have a feeling he heard the no-ball call slightly late.

Shivam Mavi to bowl the final over.

END OF OVER:
19 | 10 Runs 2 Wkts | RR: 151/7 | RR: 7.94

  • Jos Buttler19 (13b)
  • Dhawal Kulkarni2 (2b)
  • Tom Curran2-0-19-2
  • Sunil Narine4-0-48-0
18.6
4
Curran to Buttler, FOUR, low full-toss outside off, and that brings Buttler's incredible bottom wrist into play. A table-tennis-style whip enables him to pick up a flat one-bounce four to the left of long-on
18.5
2
Curran to Buttler, 2 runs, wide slower one, fairly full. I think Buttler was looking to stab that through point, but ended up playing too early and ended up flat-batting it to long-off instead
18.4
1
Curran to Kulkarni, 1 run, low full-toss angling into middle and leg, cramps him for room and all he can do is stay leg-side of the ball and jab to the left of cover
18.4
2nb
Curran to Buttler, (no ball) 1 run, full on middle and off, jabbed down to long-off, and guess what, Curran's overstepped. But Kulkarni will be on strike for the free hit.
18.3
1
Curran to Kulkarni, 1 run, back of a length outside off, this is a better ball to play that late dab against, and Kulkarni gets off the mark with a single to third man
18.2
W
Curran to Gopal, OUT, bowled him! Curran follows the slower one with a fast length ball, angling into off stump. Shreyas' feet are stuck, going neither forward nor back, and he plays with half a bat, opening the face to try and dab it fine. He misses, and Curran knocks out his off stump

S Gopal b Curran 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

One Karnataka spinner replaces another. Here's Shreyas Gopal.

Chirag Gupta: "Most overs bowled by spinners in an IPL game ?" -- Before I could ask the question, Bharath Seervi had the answer for me: "KKR's spinners have bowled 14 overs in this innings. Only twice have spinners bowled more in an IPL innings - 17.5 overs for CSK v RR in 2014 and 15 overs by RR v KKR in 2009."

18.1
W
Curran to Gowtham, OUT, slower ball, full outside off, and Gowtham departs. Looks to hit it over cover, maybe, ends up slicing a simple catch to backward point

K Gowtham c Shivam Mavi b Curran 12 (7b 0x4 1x6) SR: 171.42

Narine's figures of 0 for 48 are his worst ever figures in the IPL, and second worst in all T20.

Here's Curran.

END OF OVER:
18 | 14 Runs | RR: 141/5 | RR: 7.83

  • Jos Buttler12 (10b)
  • Krishnappa Gowtham12 (6b)
  • Sunil Narine4-0-48-0
  • Piyush Chawla4-0-18-1
17.6
4
Narine to Buttler, FOUR, drops it short now and Buttler punishes him, makes a bit of room to flat-bat this extremely hard, into the gap to the left of long-off
17.5
3
Narine to Gowtham, 3 runs, big offbreak now, looks to hoick into the leg side and gets an inside edge down into the fine leg region
17.4
0
Narine to Gowtham, no run, dangled up slow outside off, turns away from Gowtham again. Slogs across the line and fails to connect
17.3
6
Narine to Gowtham, SIX, some release for Royals, finally. Down the track, not quite to the pitch of Narine's carrom ball. Goes through with the straight loft nonetheless, and slices it a little, but that helps get it wider of long-off, Gill, who dives left at the rope, gets his hands to it, but can't hold on or flick it back into the field of play
17.2
1
Narine to Buttler, 1 run, shortish on off stump, chopped away through point
17.1
0
Narine to Buttler, no run, fired in full at the pads. Probably knew he wanted to try and make room. Tries to flick, can't connect, the ball hits his pad instead

More spin. Narine.

END OF OVER:
17 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | RR: 127/5 | RR: 7.47

  • Jos Buttler7 (7b)
  • Krishnappa Gowtham3 (3b)
  • Piyush Chawla4-0-18-1
  • Kuldeep Yadav4-0-23-1
16.6
1
Chawla to Buttler, 1 run, back of a length on off stump, punched to sweeper cover
16.5
1
Chawla to Gowtham, 1 run, mishit. Wanted to drive this flighted off-stump ball through the covers, was a touch early on it and ended up dragging it out to deep midwicket

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KKR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st1SP NarineCA Lynn
2nd69RV UthappaSP Narine
3rd32RV UthappaN Rana
4th61KD KarthikN Rana