Delhi Capitals beat Kolkata Knight Riders in a high scoring thriller at Sharjah Cricket Ground in Sharjah yesterday night and registered their third win of the season.
Earlier Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bowl first. Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw gave a good start of 56 runs in the power play. Dhawan got out off Chakravarthy's bowling for 26 runs. Shaw and captain Iyer continued to play big hits. Shaw brought up his fifty and then got out for 66 runs. Shreyas Iyer also brought up his fifty and continued to deal in sixes and his 88* runs off 38 balls helped Delhi Capitals to post a big score of 228/4 on the board.
In reply, Kolkata Knight Riders had a poor start as Narine bowled out for just 3 runs. Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana took the score to over 70 runs but under pressure, Shubman Gill threw his wicket for 28 runs. Andre Russell came at number 4 and hit a six and a four but his stay didn't last long as Rabada dismissed him for 13 runs. Meanwhile, Nitish Rana brought up his fifty but he too couldn't convert it into a big knock and got out off Harshal Patel bowling, and in the same over Dinesh Karthik also perished. Eoin Morgan hit a few sixes and kept his team alive.
In the last 4 overs, Knight Riders needed 78 runs, and in the next 2 over Rahul Tripathi and Eoin Morgan scored 47 runs and set the match for a tight finish but in the second last over Anrich Nortje dismissed Eoin Morgan and gave only 5 runs and eventually Kolkata Knight Riders finished on 210/8 and lost by 18 runs. Anrich Nortje took 3 wickets for Delhi.
All the major stats and facts from the 16th match between Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders in Sharjah
10 - Kagiso Rabada took only 1 wicket in this match and his streak of taking 2 or more wickets in 10 consecutive IPL matches came to an end.
11 - This was Delhi Capitals' 11th win over Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League.
Most wins for Delhi Capitals in IPL -
12 vs MI
11 vs KKR / KXIP
9 vs RR
8 vs RCB
7 vs CSK / Deccan Chargers
90 - Total 90 sixes have been hit in three matches of this IPL season at Sharjah Cricket Ground in Sharjah so far. And the lowest team score is 200 by CSK against RR.
100 - Amit Mishra became the first bowler to take 100 wickets for Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League.
Bowlers to take 100 or more wickets for a team in IPL -
170 - Lasith Malinga (Mumbai Indians)
127 - Harbhajan Singh (Mumbai Indians)
124 - Sunil Narine (Kolkata Knight Riders)
112 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar (Sunrisers Hyderabad)
108 - Yuzvendra Chahal (Royal Challengers Bangalore)
104 - Dwayne Bravo (Chennai Super Kings)
100 - Amit Mishra (Delhi Capitals)
Most wickets for Delhi Capitals in IPL -
100 - Amit Mishra
45 - Morne Morkel
43 - Umesh Yadav
41 - Chris Morris
40 - S Nadeem
39 - Kagiso Rabada
228/4 - Runs total is the second-highest ever total for Delhi Capitals in the Indian Premier League.
Highest totals for Delhi Capitals in IPL -
231/4 vs KXIP at Delhi, 2011
228/4 vs KKR at Sharjah, 2020
219/4 vs KKR at Delhi, 2018
214/3 vs GL at Delhi, 2017
213/6 vs MI at Mumbai, 2019
