Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh slammed fifties apiece en path to a 99-run match-winning stand to information Kolkata Knight Riders to a snug six-wicket win over Chennai Super Kings in an Indian Premier League match at Chepauk on Sunday. Rana remained unbeaten on 57 off 44 balls whereas Rinku made 54 off 43 deliveries to arrange KKR’s chase of 145 runs after they misplaced their first three wickets for 33 runs contained in the fifth over. KKR completed at 147 for 4 in 18.3 overs with Rana main from the entrance after taking advantage of a dropped probability.

KKR’s trigger was helped to a big extent by an outstanding bowling effort earlier by spin duo of Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine, who did beautifully and picked up two wickets every.

The defeat additionally places on maintain CSK’s possibilities of sealing a play-off berth as the house facet is in second spot with 15 factors.

KKR, alternatively, moved to 12 factors with a match to play however their hopes relaxation on different outcomes.

Rana and Rinku, each left-handers, confirmed obligatory abilities and endurance on a cheesy pitch to negate the influence of CSK spinners after the house group had posted a average 144 for six in 20 overs.

The match-winning partnership between Rana and Rinku ended when the latter was run out by a direct hit from Moeen Ali.

CSK spinners — Ravindra Jadeja, Maheesh Theekshana and Moeen — couldn’t do any injury after Deepak Chahar had supplied the preliminary breakthroughs to go away KKR at 33 for 3.

CSK struck an early blow when Chahar obtained Rahmanullah Gurbaz (1) as he did not hold his square-drive down and was effectively caught by Tushar Deshpande near the boundary.

After six overs, KKR had been 46 for 3 with Chahar having picked up all of the three wickets to fall — Gurbaz, Jason Roy (12) and Venkatesh Iyer (9).

Rana obtained a life on 18 when Matheesha Pathirana dropped a catch working in from the boundary off Moeen.

In the thirteenth over bowled by Moeen, Rana performed two very good photographs on the off-side to select up boundaries and adopted it up with a number of extra cracking strikes within the fifteenth over by Maheesh Theekshana.

Earlier, talismanic Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s determination to drop down the order backfired as CSK misplaced wickets at common intervals to be restricted to the modest rating.

Dhoni, who got here out to bat no.7 place, remained unbeaten on 2 off 3 balls.

Opting to bat, CSK had been 72 for 5 in within the eleventh over earlier than Shivam Dube underlined his utility, hammering a 34-ball 48 (1×4, 3x6s) to assist the hosts considerably recuperate within the firm of Ravindra Jadeja (20 off 24).

The duo shared 68-run stand for the sixth wicket to take CSK near the 150-run mark, which at one level of time regarded out of attain on a sluggish pitch.

Spin duo of Narine (2/15) and Chakravarthy (2/36) had been the choose of the bowlers for KKR they usually had been ably supported by Shardul Thakur (3-0-15-1) did and Vaibhav Arora (1/30).

CSK had been 99 for 5 after 16 overs as KKR bowlers, particularly the spinners, stored issues tight and struck at common intervals.

Narine and Chakravarthy did the injury in the midst of the innings earlier than Dube and Jadeja launched a fightback.

After a fast begin, Chakravarthy broke by way of for KKR, getting Ruturaj Gaikwad (17, 13 balls, 2×4) to edge one to Arora within the fourth over as CSK raced away to 31 within the fourth over.

Devon Conway and Ajinkya Rahane maintained the tempo of scoring, regardless of not going bang-bang, and scored 52 runs within the first six overs.

Conway earned a reprieve when he obtained a LBW determination overturned by way of DRS after being adjudged out off Chakravarthy.

Rahane fell making an attempt to pressure the tempo, unable to clear the boundary off Chakravarthy.

Conway top-edged a pull to Rinku Singh within the deep off Thakur after making 30. Ambati Rayudu’s poor season continued as he fell for simply 4 to offer Narine his first wicket.

The West Indian spinner then castled a struggling Moeen (1) to cut back CSK to 72 for five within the eleventh over.

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