The Kolkata Knight Riders took on Rajasthan Royals at the Eden Gardens, as the home team looked for a win to keep themselves alive for the playoff, while the visitors were looking to stem their streak of defeats.
Steve Smith won the toss and chose to bowl first. Varun Aaron got them a brilliant start removing Lynn for 0 and Gill for 14. Rana then made 27, but the best innings from KKR side came from skipper Dinesh Karthik, who slammed 97*with 9 sixes and 7 fours and took his team to 175/6 in 20 overs. He took apart the RR bowlers in the last few overs, taking a special liking to Jaydev Unadkat, who went for 50 runs in his four overs.
The Cricket fraternity was amazed at the recent turnaround shown by Dinesh Karthik as he was going through a rough patch but has shown good signs ahead of the upcoming World Cup 2019. They took to Twitter and praised the KKR skipper in the form of tweets.
Here are some tweets: