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Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 1 run in an exciting match of IPL-18. KKR won the toss and scored 206 runs for 4 wickets in 20 overs. In response, despite RR captain Ryan Parag and Shubham Dubey’s innings, the team could score 205 runs after losing 8 wickets.
The Eden Gardens Stadium saw great moments. Ajinkya Rahane ran 24.76 meters and caught the catch of Vaibhav Suryavanshi. Ryan Parag and Andre Russell completed their fifty from Six. Parag dismissed Rahane in Kedar Jadhav style. In one over of Varun Chakraborty, Dhruv Jurael-Wanindu Hasranga was bowled.
Read the top moments and facts of KKR VS RR match …
1. Shane Bond started the match by playing bell
Shane Bond Bell at the stadium.
Shane Bond, a bowling coach of Rajasthan Royals, started the match by playing a bail at the Eden Gardens. Bond has played 120 international matches for New Zealand, taking 259 wickets.
2. Hasranga tied Rahane’s shoe lace
Before the seventh over, Rajasthan bowler Vanindu Hasranga tied the shoe lace of Kolkata captain Ajinkya Rahane. As a sportsman-ship Rahane asked Hasranga to tie the laces of shoes before bowling.
3. Parag dismissed Rahane in Kedar Jadhav style
Ryan Parag threw the side arm ball.
Ryan Parag dismissed Ajinkya Rahane in 12.4 overs. Parag bowled the ball from round-arm action like Kedar Jadhav for the second time in the over, causing the ball not to bounce and slide the ball.
Rahane tried to play the sweep shot, but the ball went from the top edge of the bat directly to the wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurlel. Jurael caught a great catch here. Rahane was dismissed for 30 runs on 24 balls.
Ryan Parag and Dhruv Jurlel celebrating Rahane’s wicket.
4. Russell’s fifty from six, caught on the last ball of the over
Andre Russell completed the fifty on 22 balls.
Andre Russell completed the fifty by placing six on the fourth ball of the 19th over. Jofra Archer threw a full toss ball at the leg stump at a speed of 148 km/h. Here Russell adjusted the ball on top of the square leg while adjusting it fast.
On the last ball of the same over, captain Ryan Parag dropped Russell’s catch on long-off. The low full toss ball thrown at a speed of 147.3 km/h fell on the middle stump. Russell hit it loudly towards the long-off. Parag ran to the left and also hit the dive, but could not catch the catch.
Ryan gave life to Russell for 56 runs.
Earlier, the month Tishta, who was putting the 18th over, spent 23 runs. In his over, Andre Russell hit three consecutive sixes. Russell took the fourth, fifth and sixth balls out of the boundary.
Russell remained unbeaten on 57 runs on 25 balls. He also hit 4 fours and 6 sixes in the innings.
5. Rahane ran back and caught diving catch, Vaibhav out
Ajinkya Rahane caught Vaibhav for 4 runs.
Rajasthan, who was chasing a target of 207 runs, lost wickets in the first over. Here Vaibhav Suryavanshi was dismissed for 4 runs. He hit the third ball of Vaibhav Arora’s over. Then he caught Rahane on the next ball. Fielder Rahane ran from mid -on position towards 24.76 meters deep midwicket and ran backwards and caught a brilliant catch.
6. Varun bowled 2 in one over, Jurael-Hasranga out
Varun Chakraborty, who is holding the 8th over, took two wickets in an over in the over. He conceded 6 runs in this over.
- On the third ball of the over, Dhruv Jurlel was bowled. Varun held a 93 kmph googly ball. Jurael pulled forward and tried to defense, but missed and bold.
Jurael was bold on a score of zero.
- Varun bowled Vanindu Hasranga on the 5th ball of the over. Varun also dismissed Hasranga on googly. Here Hasranga tried to defense, but went between the ball, bat and pad and hit the stump. Hasranga was out on a score of zero.
Varun also dismissed Hasranga on a score of zero.
7. Ryan’s fifty from six, hit 6 consecutive sixes
Ryan Parag hit 5 consecutive sixes in Moin Ali’s over. After this, Ryan put 6 sixes on 6 balls by putting six on Varun Chakraborty’s ball. Parag also completed his fifty by placing six on the second ball of the 13th over. 32 runs came from this over.
Ryan Parag applied six on the reverse scoop.
Facts and Records …
- Andre Russell became the third player to score 1000 runs at Eden Gardens. At the top of this records is Gautam Gambhir, who scored 1407 runs and gave Kolkata Knight Riders a strong start. He is followed by Robin Uthappa, who is named 1159 runs.
- Ryan Parag became the fifth player to hit 5 consecutive sixes in an over in the IPL. He put 5 consecutive sixes in an over of Moin Ali today. Prior to him, in 2012, Chris Gayle hit 5 sixes in an over of Rahul Sharma. After this, in 2020, Rahul Tewatia did the same against Sheldon Cotrael. In 2021, Ravindra Jadeja hit 5 consecutive sixes off Harshal Patel’s balls. In 2023, Rinku Singh gave a thrilling victory to Kolkata Knight Riders by hitting 5 sixes in Yash Dayal’s over.
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