Jadeja Hits The Last Ball For Six, Gives Chennai The Victory

Jadeja hits the last ball for six, gives Chennai the victory, Kolkata loses by 6 wickets: CSK vs KKR.

The Chennai Super Kings face Kolkata Knight Riders in the 49th match of the 13th season of the Indian Premier League. In this match, Chennai captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni won the toss and decided to bowl first.

In such a situation, the Kolkata team scored 172 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs on the basis of the half-century of Nitish Rana. Chasing the target, Chennai won by 6 wickets on the last ball with the help of Ravindra Jadeja’s four.

Chennai innings, Rituraj’s half-century, Jadeja’s winning six

Shane Watson and Rituraj Gaikwad opened the innings for the Chennai team to chase down the target. Together they added 44 runs in the powerplay.

Varun Chakraborty, bowling brilliantly in the tournament, took the wicket of Shane Watson. Rinku Singh took the wicket of this batsman playing 14 runs off 19 balls.

Rituraj Gaikwad scored a half-century with the help of 4 fours and two sixes off 37 balls. This is his second consecutive half-century in the tournament. He also scored a half-century against Royal Challengers Bangalore in the previous match.

The team’s second wicket fell as Ambati Rayudu. He was caught by Sunil Narine off Pat Cummins for 38 runs. For the second consecutive season in season, Varun Chakraborty bowled Mahendra Singh Dhoni and sent him back.

Ravindra Jadeja finally came and played 31 runs off 11 balls to lead the team to victory. Jadeja hit the last ball for six to lead the team to victory by 6 wickets.

Kolkata’s innings, Rana’s half-century

After losing the toss and batting first, the Kolkata team got a decent start by Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana. Both scored 52 runs in the first 7 overs.

However, in the very next over, Shubman Gill was clean bowled by Karan Sharma with 26 runs off 17 balls. Sunil Narine came out to bat at number 3, but was caught out by Ravindra Jadeja off Mitchell Santner after scoring 7 runs.

KKR got the third blow in the form of Rinku Singh, who scored 11 runs and was caught by Ambati Rayudu off Ravindra Jadeja. Nitish Rana completed his half-century in 44 balls. Rana was caught by Sam Kurran off Lungi Nagidi playing 87 runs.

The team received its fifth blow as captain Eoin Morgan, who scored 15 runs and became the victim of lungi cash. Kolkata’s Dinesh Karthik remained unbeaten on 21 and Rahul Tripathi scored 3 runs.

The Chennai team has made three changes in this match. Faf Duplessis, Imran Tahir and Monu Kumar have been ruled out of the playing eleven, while Shane Watson Lungi Nagidi and Karan Sharma return.

There has also been a change in the Kolkata team. KKR has given Rinku Singh a chance to replace the famous Krishna. Pat Cummins sent Rituraj back with a clean bowling for 72 runs.

Playing eleven of chennai super kings

Rituraj Gaikwad, Shane Watson, Ambati Rayudu, MS Dhoni (captain and wicketkeeper), Sam Curran, N Jagadeeshan, Ravindra Jadeja, Mitchell Santner, Deepak Chahar, Karan Sharma and Lungi Nagidi.

Kolkata Knight Riders’ playing XI

Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Rahul Tripathi, Dinesh Karthik (wicketkeeper), Eoin Morgan (captain), Sunil Naren, Pat Cummins, Rinku Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Kamlesh Nagerkoti and Varun Chakraborty.

This match is very important for the Kolkata team to reach the IPL 2020 playoffs. Chennai team is completely out of the playoff race. In such a situation, CSK team can make the road to Kolkata playoffs.

Earlier in the IPL 2020, a match has been played between the two teams. In that match, the team captained by MS Dhoni had to lose by 10 runs.

In such a situation, Chennai has a chance to take revenge on Kolkata in the 13th season of IPL. If the Chennai team manages to win this match then the playoff race will become even more interesting and the road ahead for Kolkata will be difficult.

CSK vs KKR Head to Head

A total of 22 matches have been played between the two teams so far in the history of IPL. Out of these 13 matches have been won by Chennai Super Kings, while 8 matches have been won by Kolkata Knight Riders.

At the same time, a match between the two teams has been inconclusive. Talking about the last 5 matches, Chennai has won 3 matches, while Kolkata has won twice.