Padma Mohanty
Venue: Eden Gardens, Kolkata
Toss: Won by Kings XI Punjab,
who chose to ball first.
Captain of KKR: Dinesh
Karthik
Captain of KXIP: Ravichandran
Ashwin
The score of KKR: 218/4 (20.0
overs)
The score of KXIP: 190/4
(20.0 overs)
Man of the match: Andre
Russell
Another win for KKR. Robin Uthappa hit a half century in the match, Nitish Rana also hit seven 6’s. A lot more was expected from KXIP players Rahul (1 run, 5 balls) and Gayle (20 runs, 13 balls).
Kolkata Knight Riders Report Card
Top 4 batsman of KKR:
| Batsmen | R(B) | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Narine (c: Rahul; b: Viljoen) | 24(9) | 1 | 3 | 266.67 |
| Uthappa (NOT OUT) | 67(50) | 6 | 2 | 134.00 |
| Nitish Rana (c: Mayank Agarwal; b: Varun Chakravarthy) | 63(34) | 2 | 7 | 185.29 |
| A Russell (c: Mayank Agarwal; b: Andrew Tye) | 48(17) | 3 | 5 | 282.35 |
EXTRAS (lb: 1; w: 3; nb: 1)——————————5
TOTAL—————————–218(20 overs, 4 wickets) RR: 10.90
DID NOT BAT (Shubman Gill, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna)
Top 4 bowlers KXIP who took wickets of KKR:
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Shami | 4 | 0 | 44 | 1 |
| Chakravarthy | 3 | 0 | 35 | 1 |
| Viljoen | 4 | 0 | 36 | 1 |
| Tye | 4 | 0 | 37 | 1 |
Kings XI Punjab Report Card
Top 3 batsman of KXIP:
| Batsmen | R(B) | 4s | 6s | SR |
| Agarwal (b: Chawla) | 58(34) | 6 | 1 | 170.59 |
| Miller (NOT OUT) | 59(40) | 5 | 3 | 147.50 |
| Mandeep (NOT OUT) | 33(15) | 4 | 1 | 220.00 |
EXTRAS (lb: 1; w: 5)——————————6
TOTAL—————————–190(20 overs, 4 wickets) RR: 9.50
DID NOT BAT (Hardus Viljoen, Ravichandran Ashwin, Varun Chakravarthy, Mohammed Shami, Andrew Tye)
Top 3 bowlers of KKR who took wickets of KXIP:
| Bowler | O | M | R | W |
| Ferguson | 4 | 0 | 42 | 1 |
| A Russell | 3 | 0 | 21 | 2 |
| Chawla | 3 | 0 | 26 | 1 |
