Kolkata Knight Riders Delhi Capitals
130/7 (18.2) 127/9 (20)
Kolkata won by 3 wickets (with 10 balls remaining)
- Match Details (KKR vs DC):
| Ground | Sharjah Cricket Stadium |
| Toss | Kolkata Knight Riders, elected to field first |
| Series | Indian Premier League |
| Season | 2021 |
| Player Of The Match | Sunil Narine (KKR) |
| Hours of play (local time) |
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| Match days | 28 September 2021 – day (20-over match) |
| Umpires |
Nitin Menon (IND)
Saiyed Khalid (IND)
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| TV Umpire | Anil Chaudhary (IND) |
| Reserve Umpire | Yeshwant Barde (IND) |
| Match Referee | Prakash Bhatt (IND) |
| Points | Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Delhi Capitals 0 |
- Match Summary (KKR vs DC):
Abu Dhabi: Kolkata vs Delhi: The first match of the day in IPL Phase-2 was between Delhi Capitals and Kolkata Knight Riders. Where KKR chased down a target of 128 and won by 3 wickets. Kolkata won the match with 10 balls to spare. In the team’s victory, Nitish Rana scored an unbeaten 36 off 27 balls, while Sunil Narine scored 21 off 10 balls.
Chasing the target, Kolkata’s first wicket came in the form of Venkatesh Iyer (14). His wicket went to Lalit Yadav. Rahul Tripathi (9) was dismissed in the second over. Awesh Khan pushed him back. After this, Shubhaman Gill and Nitish Rana handled the innings.
Gill was playing with one end, but was later dismissed by Kagiso Rabada, giving Delhi their third victory. On the next ball, R Ashwin broke KKR’s back by dismissing Captain Morgan for zero. Ashwin looked very excited after Morgan’s dismissal. Kolkata’s sixth wicket fell to Dinesh Karthik (12). Avesh Khan took 3 wickets from Delhi.
From Delhi side, Opener Steven Smith (39 off 34 balls) and Shikhar Dhawan (24 off 20 balls) gave DC a solid start. But after the openers got out except captain Rishabh Pant (39 off 36 balls) no other batsman could score double digit. Venkatesh Iyer, Sunil Narain and Lockie Ferguson took 2 wickets each for KKR while Tim Southee took one wicket.
Sunil Narine awarded MoM for his all round performance of 21 off 10 balls knock with bat & 2 wickets for 18 runs with ball.
- Scorecard (KKR vs DC):
- Kolkata Knight Riders inning:
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
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| Shubman Gill | c Iyer b Rabada | 30 | 33 | 46 | 1 | 2 | 90.90 | ||
| Venkatesh Iyer | b Lalit Yadav | 14 | 15 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 93.33 | ||
| Rahul Tripathi | c Smith b Avesh Khan | 9 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 180.00 | ||
| Nitish Rana | not out | 36 | 27 | 64 | 2 | 2 | 133.33 | ||
| Eoin Morgan (c) | c Lalit Yadav b Ashwin | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Dinesh Karthik † | b Avesh Khan | 12 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 85.71 | ||
| Sunil Narine | c Patel b Nortje | 21 | 10 | 17 | 1 | 2 | 210.00 | ||
| Tim Southee | b Avesh Khan | 3 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 60.00 | ||
| Lockie Ferguson | not out | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | – | ||
| Extras | (b 1, lb 1, nb 1, w 2) | 5 | |||||||
| TOTAL | (18.2 Ov, RR: 7.09) | 130/7 | |||||||
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Did not bat: Sandeep Warrier, Varun Chakravarthy
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Fall of wickets: 1-28 (Venkatesh Iyer, 4.3 ov), 2-43 (Rahul Tripathi, 5.5 ov), 3-67 (Shubman Gill, 10.6 ov), 4-67 (Eoin Morgan, 11.2 ov), 5-96 (Dinesh Karthik, 14.4 ov), 6-122 (Sunil Narine, 16.5 ov), 7-126 (Tim Southee, 17.6 ov)
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anrich Nortje | 2.2 | 0 | 15 | 1 | 6.42 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Axar Patel | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 4.33 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Ravichandran Ashwin | 4 | 0 | 24 | 1 | 6.00 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Lalit Yadav | 3 | 0 | 35 | 1 | 11.66 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Avesh Khan | 3 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 4.33 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kagiso Rabada | 3 | 1 | 28 | 1 | 9.33 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
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- Delhi Capitals inning:
| BATTING | R | B | M | 4s | 6s | SR | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Smith | b Ferguson | 39 | 34 | 64 | 4 | 0 | 114.70 | ||
| Shikhar Dhawan | c Iyer b Ferguson | 24 | 20 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 120.00 | ||
| Shreyas Iyer | b Narine | 1 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 20.00 | ||
| Rishabh Pant (c)† | run out (sub [KK Nair]/†Karthik) | 39 | 36 | 71 | 3 | 0 | 108.33 | ||
| Shimron Hetmyer | c Southee b Iyer | 4 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 80.00 | ||
| Lalit Yadav | lbw b Narine | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Axar Patel | c Ferguson b Iyer | 0 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Ravichandran Ashwin | c Rana b Southee | 9 | 8 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 112.50 | ||
| Kagiso Rabada | not out | 0 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | ||
| Avesh Khan | run out (†Karthik) | 5 | 3 | – | 1 | 0 | 166.66 | ||
| Extras | (lb 2, w 4) | 6 | |||||||
| TOTAL | (20 Ov, RR: 6.35) | 127/9 | |||||||
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Did not bat: Anrich Nortje
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Fall of wickets: 1-35 (Shikhar Dhawan, 4.6 ov), 2-40 (Shreyas Iyer, 6.2 ov), 3-77 (Steven Smith, 12.2 ov), 4-88 (Shimron Hetmyer, 13.5 ov), 5-89 (Lalit Yadav, 14.3 ov), 6-92 (Axar Patel, 15.3 ov), 7-120 (Ravichandran Ashwin, 19.1 ov), 8-122 (Rishabh Pant, 19.2 ov), 9-127 (Avesh Khan, 19.6 ov)
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| BOWLING | O | M | R | W | ECON | 0s | 4s | 6s | WD | NB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandeep Warrier | 2 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 7.50 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tim Southee | 4 | 0 | 29 | 1 | 7.25 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Lockie Ferguson | 2 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5.00 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Varun Chakravarthy | 4 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 6.00 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Sunil Narine | 4 | 0 | 18 | 2 | 4.50 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Venkatesh Iyer | 4 | 0 | 29 | 2 | 7.25 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 |