Rahane, Dube and Conway's power Chennai Super Kings beats Kolkata Knight Riders by big margin of 49 runs.
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The 33rd Match of the Indian Premier League 2023 was played today between Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings at Eden Gardens, Kolkata. In which Chennai Super Kings beats Kolkata Knight Riders by big margin of 49 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and invited Chennai Super Kings to bat first, Chennai Super Kings batted first, started the inning very strongly, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Devon Conway came to start the inning and a very strong start with a half-century partnership of 73 runs for the first wicket, the first wicket has dismissed for 79 runs in 7.3 over, Ruturaj Gaikwad dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 35 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 2 boundaries in just 20 balls, next batsman Ajinkya Rahane came to bat and handled the inning with Devon Conway, the second wicket has dismissed for 109 runs in first ball of the 13th over, Devon Conway dismissed after playing a very brilliant half-century inning of 56 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 3 boundaires in just 40 balls, followed by Shivam Dube came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant quick half-century partnership of 85 runs with Ajinkya Rahane, the third wicket has dismissed for 194 runs in 17.3 over, Shivam Dube dismissed after playing a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 50 runs with the help of 5 sixes and 2 boundaires in just 21 balls, next batsman Ravindra Jadeja came to bat and played well with Ajinkya Rahane, the fourth wicket has dismissed for 232 runs in fourth ball of the final over, Ravindra Jadeja dismissed for 18 runs with the help of 2 sixes in just 8 balls, followed by MS Dhoni came to bat and he was remains unbeaten for 2 runs in 3 balls with Ajinkya Rahane, and Ajinkya Rahane played a very brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 71 runs with the help of 5 sixes and 6 boundaires in just 29 balls. In this way, Chennai Super Kings scored 235 runs after for loss of just 4 wickets in prescribed 20 overs and set a very strong target of 236 runs in front of Kolkata Knight Riders.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers Kulwant Khejroliya took 2 wickets for 44 runs in 3 overs, Suyash Sharma 1 wicket for 29 runs in 4 overs, and Varun Chakaravarthy 1 wicket for 49 runs in 4 overs.
Kolkata Knight Riders chasing 236 runs in the second inning, they could manage just 186 runs after losing 8 wickets in prescribed 20 overs. Kolkata Knight Riders started the inning very poorly lost 2 wickets in just 2 runs, Jason Roy played a very brilliant quick half-century inning of 61 runs with the help of 5 sixes and 5 boundaires in just 26 balls, Rinku Singh played an unbeaten quick half-century inning of 53 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 3 boundaires in just 33 balls, Nitish Rana scored 27 runs in 20 balls, Venkatesh Iyer scored 20 runs in 20 balls, apart from this, Andre Russell dismissed just for 9 runs in 6 balls, Umesh Yadav 4 runs in 4 balls, N Jagadeesan 1 run in 3 balls, David Wiese 1 run in 2 balls, Sunil Narine dismissed without scoring, and Varun Chakaravarthy remains unbeaten without scoring in 3 balls. In this way, Kolkata Knight Riders could manage just 186 runs after losing 8 wickets in prescribed 20 overs and lost the match by a big margin of 49 runs.
Chennai Super Kings bowlers Maheesh Theekshana took 2 wickets just for 32 runs, Tushar Deshpande 2 wickets for 43 runs, Akash Singh 1 wicket for 29 runs, Matheesha Pathirana 1 wicket for 27 runs, Ravindra Jadeja 3 wickets for 34 runs in 3 overs, and Moeen Ali 1 wicket for 20 runs in 1 over.
Chennai Super Kings batsman Ajinkya Rahane selected as the best player of the match, he played a very brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 71 runs with the help of 5 sixes and 6 boundaires in just 29 balls.
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