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KKR vs RR, Match Highlights, IPL 2023, Kolkata Knight Riders, Rajasthan Royals: The 56th match of IPL 2023 was played on Thursday at Eden Gordon in Kolkata. In this match played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals, Sanju Samson won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Kolkata scored 149 runs losing 8 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Rajasthan scored 151 runs losing 1 wicket in 13.1 overs and won the match by 9 wickets. This is Rajasthan’s sixth win this season. With this, this team has strengthened its claim to the playoffs. RR has now reached the third position in the points table.
Chasing the target of 150 runs, Rajasthan got off to a great start. Opener Yashasvi Jaiswal hit a flurry of fours and sixes as soon as he arrived. A total of 26 runs were scored in this first over of Nitish Rana. Jaiswal hit 2 sixes and 3 fours in the first over. Rajasthan’s first wicket fell on the fourth ball of the second over. Jos Buttler was run out without opening the account. However, Yashasvi continued to bat from the other end. He completed his fifty on 13 balls. This is the fastest half-century in IPL history. He broke the record of KL Rahul. There was an unbeaten partnership of 121 runs between Sanju and Jaiswal. Jaiswal remained unbeaten on 98 and Sanju scored 48 runs.
Earlier, after losing the toss and batting first, the start of Kolkata was not special. On the second ball of the third over, opener Jason Roy was dismissed after scoring 10 runs off 8 balls. Bolt got him caught out by Hetmyer. KKR’s second wicket fell on the first ball of the 5th over. Bolt sent Rahmanullah Gurbaz to the pavilion. Gurbaj scored 18 runs in 12 balls. Kolkata’s third wicket fell in the 11th over. Chahal’s ball was caught by Rana Hetmyer. Rana scored 22 runs off 17 balls.
Kolkata’s fourth wicket fell on the third ball of the 14th over. Russell scored 10 runs in 10 balls. Asif got him caught out by Ashwin. Venkatesh Iyer was caught out on the first ball of the 17th over. He scored 57 runs in 42 balls. Chahal gave Rajasthan the 5th success. On the fourth ball of the same over, Chahal got Shardul out lbw by scoring 1 run. Rinku Singh got out in the 19th over. He scored 16 runs in 18 balls. Sandeep Sharma took the wicket of Naren on the last ball. Naren scored 6 runs in 5 balls. Chahal took 4 wickets from Rajasthan. Apart from them, Bolt got 2 and Sandeep-Asif got 1-1 success.
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