Mitch Starc and Dushmantha Chameera were off colour yesterday as both seamers were guilty of bowling fuller length deliveries in their first spell to Kolkota Knight Riders openers Ramatullah Gurbaz and Sunil Narine, hence run
making opportunity was gifted on a platter which KKR batting cordon made use of .
The run flow and the wicket loss inbetween for Kolkota Knight Riders playing as visitors in Delhi Capitals territory looked very stable up to the 17th over mvfcvvb⁷espite a muddle between the 3rd and the 4th wicket losing both Ajankya Rahane and Venketesh Iyer.
Rahamatull, who made 27, looked dangerous but lost an opportunity to go big when Mitch Starc trapped in front with the total on 48 . Even Sunil Narine, his fellow opener, looked set for a big score and faced the same fate out LBW to Vipraj Nigam for 27 with Kolkota Night Riders total on 86.
The biggest blow the visitors faced was Ajankya Rahane and Venketesh Iyer being sent back with Kolkota Knight Riders on 113 withF 4 top order batters all back in the dug out.
Delhi Capitals Skipper Axer Patel very correctly focused on attacking at this stage, but Raguvansi and Rinku Singh, the former 44 and the latter 36, helped KKR to get to 203 runs a par score at Arun Jatley Stadium in New Delhi.
Mich Starc 3 for 46 , Axer Patel 2 for 47 , and Vipraj Nigam 2 for 41 got amongst the wickets column, but did not capitalise on given conditions.
Sadly, Delhi Capitals, despite Faf du Plessis’ 62 and Axer Patel 43, could not get over the line, they fell short by 14 runs.
The second spell of both Sunil Narine 3 for 29 and Varun Chackravarthy 2 for 39 put a spoke to Delhi Capitals run chase.