Shikhar Dhawan guided Delhi Capitals to a seven wickets win over Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in Kolkata and with this win, Delhi is also back in top four in the points table.
Earlier Delhi Capitals won the toss and asked Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first. Ishant Sharma gave a perfect start by removing debutant Joe Denly on the first ball of the innings. Shubman Gill and Robin Uthappa's 63 runs partnership brought Knight Riders back on the track.
Shubman Gill continued playing his shots and also brought up his first fifty of the season and played 65 runs knock before getting out. Nitish Rana and Dinesh Karthik too got out cheaply but the inform Andre Russell's 45 runs off just 21 balls innings helped Knight Riders to post a good total of 178/7.
In the reply, Delhi Capitals started off well and openers gave a 32 runs start in just 3 overs. Prithvi Shaw couldn't convert his start but Shikhar Dhawan was rock solid at his end and was scoring boundaries for fun and his 105 runs partnership with Rishabh Pant set the match for his team and eventually in the 19th over Delhi chased down the target. Shikhar Dhawan was named Man of the Match for his 97* runs knock.
All the major stats and facts from the 26th match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals in Kolkata :
2 - This was Delhi Capitals' only second win from nine matches against Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens in Kolkata in the IPL.
6 - Number of consecutive 40 plus scores Andre Russell has scored in this IPL so far and only Robin Uthappa scored more consecutive 40 plus scores (10 in 2014) than him in the IPL.
Andre Russell's scores in IPL 2019 -
49* vs SRH at Kolkata
48 vs KXIP at Kolkata
62 vs DC at Delhi
48* vs RCB at Bangalore
50* vs CSK at Chennai
45 vs DC at Kolkata
50 - Andre Russell completed 50 wickets in the IPL and became the seventh player to complete the double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets in the IPL.
Players with double of 1000 runs and 50 wickets in the IPL -
Shane Watson
Dwayne Bravo
Jacques Kallis
Kieron Pollard
Irfan Pathan
Ravindra Jadeja
Andre Russell
50 - Shikhar Dhawan became the fourth Indian player after Virat Kohli, Gautam Gambhir and Rohit Sharma to score 50 fifties in T20 cricket.
Most fifties for Indian players in T20 cricket -
59 - Virat Kohli
53 - Rohit Sharma / Gautam Gambhir
50 - Shikhar Dhawan
48 - Suresh Raina
97* - The score of 97 is the highest ever score for Shikhar Dhawan in IPL as well as in T20 cricket. The previous highest was 95* which he made against Kings XI Punjab in IPL 2011.
