IPL 2020: CSK vs KKR : Chennai Super Kings beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 wickts

 Chennai Super Kings defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 6 wickets in the 49th match. Rituraj batted impeccably. Ritu gifted a deadly innings of 72 off 53 balls. On the other hand, Jadeja also excelled at bat.

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IPL 2020: In words, all well that ends well! But these few words are totally incompatible with Chennai Super Kings in this season's IPL. Because now Mahendra Singh Dhoni's team has no advantage in winning the match. The play-off is now a nightmare for them. Yet I can't get up myself, I won't let anyone else get up either. Mahendra Singh Dhoni's Chennai Super Kings proved that by beat  Kolkata Knight Riders in Dubai.

CSK defeated KKR by 6 wickets in the 49th match of IPL. Despite winning the toss, Chennai skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni sent Kolkata to bat first. Kolkata gave Chennai a target of 173 runs thanks to Nitish Rana's brilliant innings. In reply, Rituraj Gaikwad's impeccable batting and Rabindra Jadeja's magic of the last two overs helped Chennai Super Kings win the match.

Kolkata's Shubman Gill made a great start to the day. He was joined by Nitish Rana's Ranangdehi batting. However, Shubman was dismissed for 26 off 17 balls. And then Rana took the helm of the match. Sunil Narine returned to the pavilion with just 7 runs, Rinku Singh with 11 and captain Eoin Morgan with 15 runs. At the end Dinesh Karthik came and managed the situation a bit.

In the end, Kolkata Knight Riders lost 5 wickets in 20 overs and scored 162 runs. Nitish Rana played 61 balls and scored 87 runs. Among the bowlers of Chennai, Lungi Engidi bowled hard on this day. Engidi took 2 wickets for 34 runs in 4 overs. Besides, Mitchell Santer took 1 wicket, Rabindra Jadeja 1 wicket and Karna Sharma 1 wicket.

Chennai lost Shane Watson's wicket earlier in the day with the bat. And then Rituraj Gaikwad and Ambati Rayudu took the helm of the match. Rayudu was dismissed for 38 off 20 balls but Rituraj was playing in an extraordinary manner. Chennai skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni was dismissed for just one run. Rituraj Gaikwad was dismissed by Pat Cummins shortly after. Ritu played 53 balls and scored 72 runs.

And after the Ritu's out, Chennai came under pressure, and then Rabindra Jadeja come into action and won that match. Jaddu did well in the last two overs. He played an impeccable innings of 31 runs from 11 balls. Chennai Super Kings won the match by 178 runs in 20 overs after Jadeja hit a six off the last ball. Pat Cummins and Varun Chakraborty took two wickets each for Kolkata. The man of the match on this day is Rituraj Gaikwad.

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IPL 2020: KKR vs CSK : Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by 10 runs

Rahul Tripathi celebrated his promotion to the top by striking a 51-ball 81 as KKR returned to winning ways with a 10-run victory over CSK.

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IPL 2020: Rahul Tripathi celebrated his promotion to the top by striking a 51-ball 81 as Kolkata Knight Riders returned to winning ways with a 10-run victory over Chennai Super Kings within the Indian Premier League on Wednesday.

Tripathi stood tall on the way to his fifth IPL fifty before KKR faltered within the back end of the innings and were bowled out for 167.

In reply, CSK were stopped at 157 for five. Having restored his confidence with a whirlwind 83 not out against Kings XI Punjab, veteran CSK opener Shane Watson picked up from where he had left to slam a 40-ball 50, his 21st within the lucrative league.

Watson feasted on the short-ball strategy of KKR bowlers in a 69-run partnership with Ambati Rayudu (30 from 27 balls).

Needing 78 runs within the last 10 overs, the CSK duo departed after adding just two runs, while Mahendra Singh Dhoni, beginning to bat at No 4, got out for 11.

Sam Curran hit 17 from 11 balls, but that wasn't enough as CSK fell short. The win catapulted KKR to the third place within the table with three wins from five matches, while CSK remained at five with four points from six games.

Earlier, CSK staged an interesting comeback as KKR lost three wickets within the last over with 'birthday boy' Dwayne Bravo removing two of them for a powerful 3/37.

Tripathi raced to his fifty in 31 balls to allow KKR a solid foundation after Dinesh Karthik opted to bat.

At 93 for 2 at the midway stage, KKR looked set for a giant score but Bravo struck after that.

Leg-spinner Karn Sharma (2/25), Shardul Thakur (2/28), Sam Curran (2/26) claimed two wickets each because the MS Dhoni-led side bounced back within the last 10 overs by taking eight wickets while giving away just 74 runs. Dhoni picked up four catches, the last one being his best effort.

On a Sheikh Zayed Stadium pitch that appeared to slow down, Tripathi played a risk-free knock and maintained a healthy run-rate.

Karthik made a baffling decision to send Sunil Narine before their best batsman, Eoin Morgan, at No 4. However, Narine did his job with a nine-ball 17 before being dismissed by a superb combined effort by a diving Ravindra Jadeja and Faf du Plessis.

Morgan started with a classical cover drive boundary but Curran cut his stay short with a bouncer that climbed in and took a faint edge.

Thakur, who had given the primary breakthrough by dismissing an in-form Shubman Gill (11), claimed the big wicket of Andre Russell with a cross-seam short delivery because the KKR dazzler struggled to get going.

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