New Delhi: Yuzvendra Chahal produced a sensational magic of leg-spin for help Punjab kings Drag the biggest successor in IPL history, to defend a record-less total 111 Kolkata Knight Riders Scored 16 runs in Mulanpur on Tuesday.
Chahal returned 4/28 figures as Kolkata, hovering at 62/2 in his chase, dropping out of 95 in 15.1 overs. Jeet won Punjab to fourth in the points table with four out of six matches.
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KKR saw the third wicket stand between Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi under control with the third wicket stand, before Chahal implicated Rahen LBW and rejected Raghuvanshi in the next over. He then dismissed the gradual balls to rat the middle order to Rinku Singh and Ramandip Singh.
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Andre Russell threatened briefly with two sixes and four to four of Chahal, but Marco Jansen bowled him to win a dramatic victory. Arshdeep Singh and Jansen claimed that Punjab celebrated wildly.
Earlier, Punjab scored 111 runs in 15.3 overs despite a quick start from Priyash Arya (22) and Prabhasimran Singh (30). Harshit Rana (3/25), Varun Chakraborty (2/21) and Sunil Narin (2/14) dominated the innings, before Punjab bowlers replaced the tables in one of the biggest upsets of IPL.
Brief score:
Punjab King: In 111, 20 overs in 15.3 overs (Prabhasimran Singh 30; Harshit Rana 3/25, Varun Chakraverthi 2/21, Sunil Narin 2/14)
Kolkata Knight Riders: 95 in 15.1 overs (Angkrish Raghuvanshi 37; Yuzvendra Chahal 4/28, Marco Jansen 3/17)
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