By News Room
Chennai (Chennai). In the 61st match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 played at MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Chennai Superkings by 6 runs. Got defeated by wicket. With this victory, Kolkata has extended the wait for Chennai to qualify for the playoffs. Now to qualify, Chennai will have to beat Delhi Capitals in their last match.
Chasing the target of 145 runs, the start of Kolkata Knight Riders was not good again. The team lost three wickets in the first four overs itself. Rahmanullah Gurbaz scored 1 run, Venkatesh Iyer 9 runs and Jason Roy returned cheaply to the pavilion after scoring 12 runs. However, after this captain Nitish Rana along with Rinku Singh handled the innings and took the team to the threshold of victory. There was a 99-run partnership between the two. Moin Ali broke this partnership by running out Rinku Singh with a direct hit. Rinku played a brilliant inning of 54 runs. In the end, Nitish made the team win by scoring an unbeaten 57 runs. Deepak Chahar took 3 wickets in bowling for Chennai Super Kings.
Earlier, batting after winning the toss, Chennai scored 144 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Shivam Dubey scored the maximum 48 runs from Chennai and he remained unbeaten. At the same time, Devon Conway also contributed 30 runs. Apart from these, Ravindra Jadeja scored 20 runs, Gaikwad 17 runs and Ajinkya Rahane scored 16 runs. For Kolkata, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakraborty took 2-2 wickets while Vaibhav Arora and Shardul Thakur got 1-1 wickets.
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Source: Kolkata won on the strength of Nitish-Rinku, beat Chennai by 6 wickets
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