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Follow highlights from match 28 of TATA IPL 2024 between KKR and LSG here.
Updated : Apr 14, 2024, 07:00 PM IST
Kolkata Knight Riders are set to take on Lucknow Super Giants at Eden Gardens in Kolkata for the 28th match of IPL 2024, marking the start of Sunday's doubleheader.
Lucknow Super Giants have secured 3 wins out of 5 matches, placing them at 4th position on the points table with 6 points and a net run rate of +0.436. Kolkata Knight Riders, with 3 wins from 4 matches, currently hold the second spot in the rankings.
In their recent matches, both Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants faced defeats. Kolkata lost to Chennai Super Kings by 7 wickets. Lucknow Super Giants also lost to Delhi Capitals by 6 wickets, despite Ayush Badoni's 55 runs. Lucknow Super Giants have had the upper hand in their past T20 matches against Kolkata Knight Riders, winning all three encounters.
A short one next by Mohsin that is pulled through deep square for a FOUR!!! SIX NEXT!!!! A short one next as he pulls it over deep mid-wicket for a maximum! A single next as Iyer gets on strike. A dot and a single follows. A single to end the over as Salt retains the strike.
Bishnoi to Iyer. Batter pulls it through backward square for a FOUR!!! A dot and a wide follows. Iyer pushes it in the covers for a single. A dot and a single follows as Salt hits it towards mid-wicket. A single to end the over as Iyer retains strike.
Mohsin to Narine. Two dots to open the over. OUT!!!! Narine swings big but mis-hits the ball and is caught by Stoinis in the covers. Two dots follow as Raghuvanshi gets on strike. SIX!!!! Batter flicks it over deep square for a maximum to end the over!
First ball is a dot, followed by a leg-bye single. Narine hits a four through point. He gets a double off the next ball. A by single and a no-ball is called. Free-hit is a wide. Another wide, another no-ball, and Salt hits a six off the free-hit.
Starc to bowl the final over. OUT! Pooran gets an nick to the keeper first-ball of the over as Starc goes wide outside off.
Arshad Khan comes in as Impact sub as De Kock goes out. FOUR! Top edge on the pull and that runs away to the boundary behind the keeper. Full just outside off and Arshad swings and misses. Swinging in and Arshad heaves and misses again. Now it’s back of a length and Krunal swivels and pulls and misses. It goes off his thigh pad for a single.
Chakravarthy to bowl out now. Just a couple of singles off the first three balls. He bowls a quicker one to Pooran, who stabs it to midwicket for a single. Just five singles from the over and LSG now heads into the death overs.
Starc will bowl his third. Back of a length on middle and tucked to square-leg by Rahul for a dot ball. FOUR! Rahul sends that crashing over cover for a boundary as Starc offers some room outside off. This is pushed to deep point for a single. OUT! What a stunning catch by Ramandeep Singh at point. Room outside off and Hooda decided to drive on the up and Ramandeep takes a stunner at backward point.
Ayush Badoni has been promoted to No. 4 and is greeted with a bouncer by Starc. Two dot balls to end the over.
Vaibhav Arora starts with a wide. A review by Shreyas Iyer confirms the decision. A front-foot no-ball is called next. Rahul hits a six over cover. He takes a quick single off a full-length ball. De Kock edges and is caught by short third-man. Deepak Hooda faces a bouncer and gets a single.
Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Yash Thakur
Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy
Lucknow Super Giants Squad: Quinton de Kock, KL Rahul(w/c), Devdutt Padikkal, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Deepak Hooda, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Arshad Khan, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Yash Thakur, Krishnappa Gowtham, Manimaran Siddharth, Amit Mishra, Matt Henry, Mayank Yadav, Yudhvir Singh Charak, Kyle Mayers, Ashton Turner, Prerak Mankad, Mohsin Khan, Shamar Joseph, Arshin Kulkarni
Kolkata Knight Riders Squad: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Shreyas Iyer(c), Venkatesh Iyer, Ramandeep Singh, Rinku Singh, Andre Russell, Anukul Roy, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy, Suyash Sharma, Manish Pandey, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Sakib Hussain, Harshit Rana, Dushmantha Chameera, Srikar Bharat, Nitish Rana, Chetan Sakariya, Sherfane Rutherford, Allah Ghazanfar