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Avesh Khan, POTM: The attempt was to get Dre Russ out, as he was going well. My aim was going with the hard lengths even if that goes for six. His wicket was the best of the three as he was on top. I look to take it one ball at a time. My dad and the coaches have encouraged me to take wickets and help the team win. The conversations with the other bowlers is to execute plans according to the demands of the situations, we figure out what the track is doing and communicate it to share knowledge.

KL Rahul, LSG Captain: We dominated most of the game, started well with the bat except the run-out. We thought the wicket was slow and sticky and thought 155 would be par. QDK, Deepak, and Stoinis took it to 170+. Having skill is good, but bowling well under pressure and being brave, trusting the best ball on the wicket without being worried about who's playing makes our bowling unit commendable. We do have some plans before the game, and what's good to see is they remember those plans under pressure. If we go for runs from there then that's acceptable. I can't think of any game where we've had a complete performance, and no team will find the perfect performance. But we have pulled out the win from different situations. We are sticking to our plans and winning which is great.

Menon: "Got to feel for Dre Russ. He constantly puts his hand up and takes wickets and scores runs every game, but there's only so much he can do. He really needs the rest of the team to perform too."

Hariharan: "3 out of 4 mega cities are out and hope the fourth one also does not make, so other smaller cities come forward."

Looks like the Points Table will not be opening up, LSG are on top now. Their score of 176 looked 10-15 over par, it turned out to be 75 extra. Mohsin's spell was remarkable up-top, other bowlers followed suit to ensure wickets came at regular intervals. The strangle was always on, Russell came out swinging and luck was on his side for a while but there was way too much to do. Wickets came in clusters and the match ended quickly.

Shreyas Iyer, KKR captain: They outplayed us in bowling and batting. They bowled well in the powerplay, they started well with the bat too. We came back in the middle but they took it away from us at the death. It was hard to read the wicket, so we chose to bowl. We found out the ball was stopping and the pitch was two-paced. It was a 155-160 wicket, but they went over that. Baz and I discuss what to do at the toss, it's best to lose tosses (laughs), but I've won them. But we have not gotten the basics right. Powerplay and death are the areas to improve, hopefully we can get it right next time.

10:50 pm: LSG win by 75 runs, mainly on the back of some excellent powerplay batting and a death over, and knocked over KKR's top-order. Handshakes all round follow the celebrations from LSG.

14.3
W
Holder to Harshit Rana, 2 runs, OUT, All fielders in and Harshit drives a good length ball down the ground. The ball trickled away and was pulled back, the throw came in and the batters came back for three. There could have been a run-out at either end, the ball came to the bowler and took off the bails before the batter made his ground. Comedy of errors ends the game.

Harshit Rana run out 2 (2m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 200.00

Raj: "Why not ball tracking before ultra edge for LBWs?" Because of the protocol

14.2
W
Holder to Southee, OUT, Two in two for Holder as Southee pulls it to deep-square leg! The short ball at hip-height had Southee pull it in the air, Avesh came in, took the catch, and tumbled in front and got up with a smile on his face.

TG Southee c Avesh Khan b Holder 0 (2m 1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

Siddhesh: "I doubt Cricinfo's impact score will capture it, but that initial 3 over spell by Mohsin Khan was pure gold and probably set the tone right away in terms of their defense. KKR were left playing catch-up ever since and that's led to their current situation staring at a huge defeat. "

14.1
W
Holder to Narine, OUT, Krunal backtracks at cover and takes it! It was a length ball outside off, Narine tried to launch it over cover but got it off the bottom, it was going over Krunal's head but he backtracked and took the catch well

SP Narine c Pandya b Holder 22 (21m 12b 3x4 1x6) SR: 183.33

Around the wicket

END OF OVER:
14 | 11 Runs | KKR: 99/7 (78 runs required from 36 balls, RR: 7.07, RRR: 13.00)

  • Shivam Mavi1 (2b)
  • Sunil Narine22 (11b)
  • Ravi Bishnoi3-0-30-1
  • Avesh Khan3-1-19-3
13.6
0
Ravi Bishnoi to Shivam Mavi, no run, LSG review an LBW given not-out. It hit the pad after beating the sweep, the impact is the issue. There is no edge but the impact, since the batter went across with a stride, was outside off
13.5
1
Ravi Bishnoi to Narine, 1 run, Goes across and slaps a length ball outside off to long-on
13.4
0
Ravi Bishnoi to Narine, no run, Swings at a length ball outside off and misses
13.3
4
Ravi Bishnoi to Narine, FOUR, Length outside off, Narine tries the heave but it goes off the underedge behind the keeper for four
13.2
2
Ravi Bishnoi to Narine, 2 runs, Stoinis drops a skier! It came after a Narine toe-ended a full ball outside off after trying the slog-sweep again. The ball went up, three fielders converged. Stoinis called for it and came in, went down. Tumbled, but could not reach out and catch it
13.1
4
Ravi Bishnoi to Narine, FOUR, Swipes at a full ball outside off and it goes straight, inside-out on its way to the fence

Slip in

END OF OVER:
13 | 9 Runs 2 Wkts | KKR: 88/7 (89 runs required from 42 balls, RR: 6.76, RRR: 12.71)

  • Sunil Narine11 (6b)
  • Shivam Mavi1 (1b)
  • Avesh Khan3-1-19-3
  • Ravi Bishnoi2-0-19-1

Terry: "Why is Umesh not playing?" Injury, he pulled his calf-muscles

Anand Meenakshi: "Bring back Mohsin, he will Finish the tail with his bag full of tricks!" Still recovering from that dream spell upfront. For his sake, I hope he does as you say.

Sundar Ananthak: "Is Krunal Pandya in the playing 11 purely as a batsman? That doesn't make sense at all!" He's not been needed.

KKR take the timeout

12.6
1
Avesh Khan to Narine, 1 run, Length ball on middle has Narine try and steer it to point but it takes the underedge and goes towards third man for one
12.5
1
Avesh Khan to Shivam Mavi, 1 run, Full outside off, driven to the left of mid-off for one
12.5
1w
Avesh Khan to Shivam Mavi, 1 wide, Short ball goes over the left of the batter, it was left alone by the batter as he rotated intuitively. Wide called by the square-leg umpire.

Slip stays

12.4
W
Avesh Khan to Roy, OUT, Given out caught behind and Anukul reviews. It was a length ball down leg and Anukul shuffled across and tried to nudge it fine, there was a subdued appeal from the bowler. The keeper underarmed the ball to the square-leg umpire. Ultra-Edge confirms that there was some contact made with the glove on its way and the decision stands

AS Roy c †de Kock b Avesh Khan 0 (3m 2b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

12.3
0
Avesh Khan to Roy, no run, Back of a good length ball just outside off is pushed to the left of short-cover

Slip in

KKR 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st0AJ FinchB Indrajith
2nd11AJ FinchSS Iyer
3rd12AJ FinchN Rana
4th2N RanaRK Singh
5th44AD RussellRK Singh
6th16SP NarineAD Russell
7th0SP NarineAS Roy
8th14SP NarineShivam Mavi
9th0TG SoutheeShivam Mavi
10th2Shivam MaviHarshit Rana

Indian Premier League

TeamMWLPTNRR
GT14104200.316
RR1495180.298
LSG1495180.251
RCB148616-0.253
DC1477140.204
PBKS1477140.126
KKR1468120.146
SRH146812-0.379
CSK144108-0.203
MI144108-0.506