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DC vs KKR Indian Premier League 2024: In the 16th match of IPL 2024, Delhi Capitals faced Kolkata Knight Riders. This match was played in Visakhapatnam. Kolkata won the toss and batted first and scored 272 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Delhi’s innings was reduced to 166 runs in 17.2 overs.
Kolkata defeated Delhi:-
Kolkata Knight Riders have defeated Delhi Capitals by 106 runs in the 16th match of IPL 2024. After winning the toss and batting first, Kolkata scored 272 runs losing seven wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Delhi team was reduced to 166 runs in 17.2 overs. This is Delhi’s third defeat in four matches. At the same time, Kolkata has scored a hat-trick of wins. The team has won all its three matches so far.
With this victory, Kolkata team has reached the top with six points. At the same time, Delhi team has reached ninth place. It has two points. Kolkata has to play the next match against Chennai Super Kings on April 8 in Chennai. At the same time, Delhi team will play its next match against Mumbai Indians on April 7 at Wankhede.
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Stubbs out after scoring a half century:-
Delhi got its seventh blow in the 15th over at the score of 159. Varun Chakraborty got Tristan Stubbs caught by Starc. Stubbs played an innings of 54 runs in 32 balls with the help of four fours and four sixes. After this, Sunil Narine got Sumit Kumar caught by Pandey on the first ball of the 16th over. Sumit could score seven runs. Delhi’s score is 159 runs for eight wickets.
Pant’s stormy innings:-
Delhi Capitals suffered two setbacks at the score of 126. Varun got Rishabh Pant caught by Shreyas Iyer on the second ball of the 13th over. With the assistance of four fours and five sixes, Pant scored 55 runs in 25 balls throughout his inning. He scored the 17th half-century of his IPL career in 23 balls. This was his second consecutive half-century. Earlier, Pant had also played a stormy innings against Chennai Super Kings. At the same time, on the next ball, Varun got Akshar Patel caught by Manish Pandey. Akshar could not open the account.
Kolkata scored 272 runs:-
Kolkata Knight Riders have scored a huge score in Visakhapatnam. They have scored 272 runs after losing seven wickets in 20 overs. Delhi has a huge target of 273 runs. The total of 272 is the second highest total in IPL. The biggest score of IPL was also made in this season. Sunrisers Hyderabad had scored 277 runs against Mumbai Indians (27 March).At the same time, this is the eighth highest total in overall T20. 272 runs is Kolkata’s highest score in IPL. Earlier in 2018, he had scored 245 runs for six wickets against Punjab.
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Kolkata innings:-
The match was started in a stormy manner by Sunil Narine and Philip Salt. He added 60 runs for the first wicket in 4.3 overs. Nortje broke this partnership. He dismissed Salt (18). After this, Narine along with 18 year old young Indian batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi hit fours and sixes. Both of them made a partnership of 104 runs in 48 balls.
Narine scored the fifth half-century of his IPL career. He played an inning of 85 runs in 39 balls with the help of seven fours and seven sixes. He was dismissed by Marsh. At the same time, Angkrish Raghuvanshi made his debut in IPL and scored a brilliant half-century. He played an inning of 54 runs in 27 balls with the help of five fours and three sixes.
Rinku was out after scoring 26 runs in eight balls with the help of one four and three sixes. Ishant Sharma came to bowl the 20th over of Kolkata’s innings and clean bowled Russell with a brilliant yorker on the very first ball of the over.