Chennai Super Kings (CSK) defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 6 wickets at Dubai International Cricket Stadium in Dubai on Thursday (October 29) and registered their fifth win of IPL 2020 while Knight Riders lost their seventh match.
Earlier, Chennai Super Kings won the toss and opted to bowl first. Shubman Gill gave a flying start and added 53 runs with Nitish Rana for the opening wicket. Karn Sharma broke the stand by removing Gill for 26 runs. Rana continued to score runs and brought up his 50 and then he changed his gears and played some big shots. His 87 runs knock off 61 balls helped Knight Riders to post 172/5 on the board.
In reply, Chennai Super Kings also started very well as inform Ruturaj Gaikwad continued his good form and along with Shane Watson added 50 runs. Varun Chakaravarthy dismissed Watson and broke this stand. Ruturaj and Ambati Rayudu took the score to over 100 runs and their 68 runs partnership set the match in Chennai's favour.
Pat Cummins broke this stand by dismissing Rayudu and then in the next over MS Dhoni got out off Chakaravarthy's bowling. In the last 3 overs, Chennai needed 34 runs to win but Cummins gave away only 4 runs and took the wicket of set Ruturaj Gaikwad who scored 72. In the second last over, Lockie Ferguson bowled a no-ball and some full tosses to Ravindra Jadeja and thus he conceded a total of 20 runs. In the last over Super Kings needed only 10 runs which Jadeja scored by hitting two sixes off the last two balls.
All the major stats and facts from the 49th match between Chennai Super Kings and Kolkata Knight Riders in Dubai :
1 - Varun Chakaravarthy became the first ever spinner to get MS Dhoni out bowled twice in IPL and he dismissed him both the times in this season itself.
8 - Ravindra Jadeja became the 8th batsman to hit a six off the last ball of the match to win it in IPL.
Batsmen to hit six off the last ball of the match to win it (in IPL) -
Rohit Sharma vs KKR, 2009
Rohit Sharma vs PWI, 2011
Ambati Rayudu vs KKR, 2011
Rohit Sharma vs Deccan Chargers, 2012
Saurabh Tiwary vs PWI, 2012
Dwayne Bravo vs KKR, 2012
MS Dhoni vs KXIP, 2016
Mitchell Santner vs RR, 2019
Nicholas Pooran vs RCB, 2020
Ravindra Jadeja vs KKR, 2020
50 - The 53 runs partnership between Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana is the first 50 plus runs opening partnership for Kolkata Knight Riders in this IPL season.
87 - Runs score is the highest individual score for Nitish Rana in Indian Premier League.
Highest scores for Nitish Rana in IPL -
87 vs CSK at Dubai, 2020
85* vs RCB at Kolkata, 2019
81 vs DC at Abu Dhabi, 2020
1000 - With his 87 runs knock Nitish Rana has also completed 1000 runs for Kolkata Knight Riders in Indian Premier League.
