Kolkata Knight Riders beat Kings XI Punjab by just 2 runs in a last-over thriller at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday. It was Kolkata's fourth win of the season while Punjab lost their sixth match.
Earlier Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bat first but they had a poor start and lost Rahul Tripathi and Nitish Rana cheaply. Shubman Gill and Eoin Morgan started the rebuild job and took the score to over 60 runs in 10 overs.
In the quest of some quick runs, Morgan lost his wicket. Dinesh Karthik came to bat at five and counter attacked and his 22 balls fifty took Kolkata in a good position. Shubman Gill also brought up his fifty and thus Kolkata Knight Riders posted 162/5 on the board.
In reply, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal continued their good form and their 115 runs partnership set the match in Punjab's favor. Mayank got out for 56 runs off 39 balls. KL Rahul also brought up his fifty and in the end, Punjab needed only 21 runs off 18 balls with 9 wickets in hand but Narine dismissed Pooran and broke this stand and in second last over Prasidh Krishna gave only 6 runs and took wickets of KL Rahul for 74 and Simran Singh. So in the last over of Narine Punjab needed 14 runs to win but they could manage only 11 runs and lost the match by 2 runs from a good position.
All the major stats and facts from the 24th match between Kings XI Punjab and Kolkata Knight Riders in Abu Dhabi :
2 - Runs win is the joint smallest win for Kolkata Knight Riders in terms of runs in IPL.
Smallest wins for KKR in IPL (By runs) -
2 vs RCB at Sharjah, 2014
2 vs KXIP at Abu Dhabi, 2020
5 vs RCB at Kolkata, 2008
7 vs PWI at Kolkata, 2012
7 vs KXIP at Kolkata, 2016
5 - Kings XI Punjab have lost each of their last 5 matches in this IPL season.
KXIP last 5 matches in IPL 2020 -
Lost to KKR
Lost to SRH
Lost to CSK
Lost to MI
Lost to RR
18 - This was Kolkata Knight Riders' 18th win over Kings XI Punjab in the Indian Premier League.
Most Wins against an opponent in IPL -
20 - MI vs KKR
18 - KKR vs KXIP
17 - MI vs CSK
16 - MI vs RCB
15 - CSK vs DC
15 - CSK vs RCB
22 - Dinesh Karthik scored his fifty in just 22 balls - the joint-fastest fifty for him in terms of balls in IPL. He had scored 22 balls fifty against the same team (KXIP) in Indore back in 2018.
28 - Sunil Narine has taken 28 wickets against Kings XI Punjab in IPL - the second-most by any bowler.
Most wickets against KXIP in IPL -
29 - Umesh Yadav
28 - Sunil Narine
22 - Dwayne Bravo / Lasith Malinga / A Mishra / Harbhajan Singh
21 - Bhuvneshwar Kumar
20 - Yuzvendra Chahal
115 - KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal's 115 runs opening stand is the fourth 100 plus runs opening stand of this IPL.
100 or more runs opening stand in IPL 2020 -
183 - KL Rahul / Mayank Agarwal vs RR
181* - S Watson / Faf du Plessis vs KXIP
160 - D Warner / J Bairstow vs KXIP
115 - KL Rahul / M Agarwal vs KKR
