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Patna : Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Delhi Capitals (DC) by a massive 59 runs in the 42nd match of IPL 2020 at Sheikh Zayed Stadium, Abu Dhabi, UAE, on October 24, 2020, evening, as leg spinner Varun Chakravarthy, 29, rocked the DC batting order with a devastating spell of spin bowling taking 5/20 in 4 overs. His teammate and fast bowler Pat Cummins was equally lethal taking 3/17 in 4 overs while fast bowler Lockie Ferguson took 1/30 in 4 overs.
It was KKR’s 6th win in 11 matches and they have 12 points. For DC, it was their 4th defeat in 11 matches and they have 14 points. Varun Chakravarthy was named Player Of The Match. DC had won the toss and opted to bowl.
Replying to KKR’s 194/6, DC were restricted to just 135/9 in 20 overs with captain Shreyas Iyer scoring 47 in 38 balls with 5 fours while Rishabh Pant (wk) scored 27 in 33 balls with 2 fours and a six. Both fell to Varun Chakravarthy. DC made a disastrous start losing their first wicket that of opener Ajinkya Rahane with no run on board. Rahane fell to Pat Cummins for zero. His opening partner Shikhar Dhawan, who has scored two centuries in this IPL, also fell to Cummins for 6 and it was 13/2.
Iyer and Pant then added 63 runs for the third wicket. Pant fell to Chakravarthy and it was 76/3. Shimron Hetmyer also fell to Chakravarthy for 10 making it 95/4. Iyer also got out at the same score and it was 95/5. All-rounder Marcus Stoinis also fell to Chakravarthy for 6 and it was 110/6. Spinner Axar patel too fell to Chakravarthy for 9 and it was 112/7. Kagiso Rabada fell to Cummins for 9 making it 132/8. Tushar Deshpande fell to Ferguson for 1 and it was 135/9.
Batting first, KKR opener Shubhman Gill fell to fast bowlerAnrich Nortje for 9 making it 11/1. Rahul Tripathy also fell to Nortje for 13 and it was 35/2. Dinesh Karthik (wk) fell to fast bowler Kagiso Rabada for 3 making it 42/3. Opener Nitish Rana and spinner Sunil Narine then added 115 runs for the 4th wicket. narine fell to Rabada for 64 in 32 balls hitting 6 fours and 4 sixes and it was 157/4. Rana fell to Marcus Stoinis for 81 in 53 balls with 13 fours and 1 six and it was 194/5. Captain Eoin Morgan fell to Stoinis for 17 hitting 2 fours and 1 six and it was 194/6. Nortje, Rabada, and Stoinis took 2 wickets each.