Chennai Tremendous Kings edges previous Kolkata Knight Riders by way of two wickets in last-ball mystery

In an exhilarating last-ball end, Ravindra Jadeja’s eight-ball 22 (2×4, 2×6) helped Chennai Tremendous Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by way of two wickets within the Indian Premier League (IPL) tournament at Abu Dhabi on Sunday.

Chasing 172 for victory, openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Faf du Plessis set the platform for CSK with a 74-run stand earlier than the chase misplaced momentum.

The Chennai aspect was once cruising at 101/1 after 11 overs when Prasidh Krishna got rid of du Plessis. The wicket allowed KKR to come back again into the sport strongly because of a couple of tight overs from Varun Chakravarthy (1/21), leaving CSK wanting 26 off the final two overs.

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Krishna, who had given simply 19 runs from his first 3 overs, began the nineteenth over neatly with two extensive yorkers to the left-handers Jadeja and Sam Curran for a unmarried every.

However inexplicably, he modified plans with a brief ball on leg-stump that was once hit over sq. leg by way of Jadeja.  

The bowler then crumbled beneath power as Jadeja discovered every other six and two extra barriers to go away CSK wanting simply 4 runs of the final over.

Regardless of Sunil Narine scalping Curran and Jadeja within the ultimate over, CSK controlled to limp around the line off the final ball to head on best of the issues desk.

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Previous, electing to bat, Rahul Tripathi’s (45) on the best, adopted by way of cameos from Nitish Rana (37) and Dinesh Karthik (26) helped KKR put up a powerful general of 171/6.

Tripathi got here out with a transparent plan as he stepped out continuously to the medium-pacers and helped KKR get to 50 in 5 overs.

Then again, CSK pulled again issues throughout the center overs with some good bowling from Shardul Thakur (2/20) and Jadeja (1/21).

Simply when CSK felt it had a possibility to limit KKR to a modest general, Rana and Karthik got here just right as 44 runs got here off the final 3 overs.

CSK made one alternate for this tournament with Sam Curran changing Dwayne Bravo however it proved expensive because the English all-rounder went for 56 runs from his 4 overs.

After Andre Russell picked 14 runs off Curran, Karthik too went after the younger left-arm medium-pacer, choosing 17 runs within the nineteenth over to assist his aspect end strongly.