Rinku Singh hits 5 sixes in a row to push KKR to an exhilarating win over Gujarat Titans

Kolkata Knight Riders’ Rinku Singh’s 5 consecutive sixes inside the last over took the win away from Gujarat Titans at Narendra Modi Stadium on Sunday. Despite taking the first IPL 2023 hat-trick from Rashid Khan, Rinku Singh’s last over effectivity overshadowed the match. 

Gujarat’s Venkatesh Iyer had carried out an excellent knock 83 in 40 balls which launched Kolkata nearer to the chase. 

Put to chase, Kolkata’s first wicket went early inside the third over as Mohammed Shami despatched Rahmanullah Gurbaz once more to the pavilion who was batting at 15 in 12 balls. Irish bowler Joshua Little hit one different blow to Kolkata by getting the wicket of Narayan Jagadeesan at 6 balls in 8 balls in 3.6 overs.

Struggling after shedding two early wickets, KKR had put 43 runs on the board with Venkatesh Iyer batting at 18 in 13 balls and Nitish Rana at 3 in 3 balls after the tip of the Powerplay.

At the tip of 9 overs, Venkatesh and Nitish contributed fifty-run partnerships for Kolkata to return nearer to an infinite run chase. KKR was at 86/2 in 10 overs with Venkatesh at 39 in 22 balls and Nitish at 25 in 18 balls.

Batting strongly inside the middle, Ventakesh reached to his fifty-hitting boundary in 26 balls. The duo of Ventakesh and Nitish accelerated their gears inside the twelfth and thirteenth over the place Rashid Khan and Yash Dayal went expensive with 13 and 17 runs respectively.

Just after the spectacular 100-run partnership of the duo, Gujarat made the comeback inside the match when Little despatched once more Nitish, who was wanting good scoring 45 in 29 balls.

Venkatesh went full out in opposition to Little inside the sixteenth over as he hit one six and two 4. Little went for 17 runs turning the desk in Kolkata’s favour. Kolkata reached to 150-run mark reached in 15.2 overs.

In the 15.5 over, Gujarat purchased the pricey breakthrough of Venkatesh by Alzarri Joseph. Ventakesh scored an excellent knock of 83 in 40 balls.

GT stand-in skipper Rashid Khan, alongside along with his distinctive bowling, took the first hat-trick of the IPL 2023 hitting Andre Russell, Sunil Narine and Shardul Thakur respectively. He firmed the place of the Titans inside the recreation.

Rinku Singh by hitting 5 consecutive sixes did unprecedentedly and chased down the massive full put by the Gujarat Titans. Yash Dayal gave away the game by being hit for 31 runs inside the last over.

Earlier, with an explosive batting by Vijay Shankar on the dying over, after Sudharsan set the platform, Gujarat Titans posted an entire of 204/4 in opposition to Kolkata Knight Riders.

After profitable the toss, Gujarat Titans chosen to bat the place Wriddhiman Saha and Shubman Gill opened the innings.

The openers started steadily in opposition to the Kolkata pacers; nonetheless, when spinner Sunil Narine was launched in fourth over of the match, Kolkata took their first wicket as Saha who was dismissed for 17 in 17 balls to an excellent diving catch from N Jagadeesan. GT was 33/1 in 4.2 overs. Gujarat Titans purchased to their 50 runs mark in merely 5.1 overs.

After the powerplay, Gill was standing sturdy inside the middles with 20 in 14 balls and he was partnered by Sai Sudharsan with 5 in 5 balls. GT was at 54/1 in 6 overs.

Duo of Sudharsan and Gill launched up the fifty-run partnership in merely 30 balls. GT was at 88/1 after 10 overs; Gill at 36 in 27 balls and Sudharsan at 22 in 16 balls.

Just after GT reached to their 100-run mark in 11.3 overs, Gill’s innings obtained right here to an end with Narine’s second wicket in 11.4 overs when Umesh Yadav caught him at long-on. GT opener was in 39 in 31 balls consisting 4 boundaries. GT was 100/2 after 11.4 overs.

The twelfth over started with a 4 in opposition to Umesh by Abhinav Manohar and to proceed the rhythm, he hit two further boundaries inside the subsequent 2 balls.

Giving one different blow to Gujarat’s batting, teenager Suyash Sharma bowled out Abhinav with a cracking googly in his second over. Abhinav was at 14 in 8 balls consisting of 4 fours. Whereas, GT was at 118/3 after 13.3 over.

After 15 overs, Gujarat scored 132/3 with Vijay Shankar and Sudharsan batting on the crease. Sudharsan was batting at 46 in 31 balls and Shankar was batting at 2 in 3 balls.

Gujarat’s in-from batter Sudharsan clinched his second half-century of the IPL 2023 in 34 balls in 16.2 overs. With Sudharsan’s single in 16.4, Gujarat purchased to their 150 runs mark. Taking his three-wicket haul, Narine purchased the wicket of Sudharsan in 17.3 overs. Sudharsan carried out phenomenally successfully scoring 53 in 38 balls bringing Titans to 153/ 4 balls.

Taking advantage of the platform set by the very best batters, Shankar accelerated inside the last second of the match punishing Ferguson for expensive 25 runs the place he was hit by two sixes and two fours and one no ball.

With explosive batting, Shankar reached his fifty in merely 21 balls with a six. And after the half-century, he hit two sixes inside the subsequent consecutive balls, making a hat-trick of sixes.

Gujarat ended their innings at 204/4 with the help of Shankar’s unbeaten 63 in 24 balls and David Miller’s unbeaten two runs in 3 balls.

Brief score: Kolkata Knight Riders: 207/7 (Venkatesh Iyer 83, Rinku Singh 48, Rashid Khan 3/37) beats Gujarat Titans: 204/4 (Vijay Shankar 63*, Sai Sudharsan 53, Sunil Narine 4/33). 

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