Ahmedabad | Rinku Singh hit five sixes in the last 5 balls of 20th over to seal a thrilling 3-wicket win for Kolkata Knight Riders to deny Gujarat Titans their third straight win. Kolkata Knight Riders needed 29 runs to win in the last over, Umesh Yadav took 1 run on the first ball of Yash Dayal, now 28 runs were required from the last five balls to win, at such a time Rinku Singh took his own state player and sent the last five balls of Yash Dayal, out of the boundary for sixes, giving Kolkata a seemingly impossible victory. Earlier, captaining in the absence of Hardik Pandya, Rashid Khan won the toss and decided to bat first. Gujarat Titans scored 204 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in allotted 20 overs. Vijay Shankar, who became the basis of Gujarat Titans’ strong score, played an unbeaten inning of 63 runs in 24 balls with the help of 5 sixes on 4 fours. Sai Sudharsan once again played a brilliant inning of 53 runs. Sunil Narine dismissed 3 players for 33 runs for Kolkata Knight Riders. Chasing 204, Kolkata Knight Riders got off to a bad start once again, reaching a total of 28 runs and both the opening batsmen returned to pavilion. At such a time, captain Nitish Rana 45 and Venkatesh Iyer played an innings of 83 runs to keep alive the hopes of the team’s victory. But Captain Rashi Khan almost ended the Kolkata Knight Riders’ hopes of victory by dismissing Andre Russell, Sunil Narine and Shardul Thakur on the first three balls of the 17th over, completing a hat-trick, at that time Rinku Singh, the man of the match hit 5 sixes in the last five balls of the last over of the innings and played an innings of 48 runs in 21 balls gave a thrilling victory to Kolkata Right Riders.
Brief Scores:
Gujarat Titans: 4/204 over 20, Vijay Shankar 63 not out, Sai Sudharsan 53, Shubman Gill 39, Sunil Narine 3/33, Suyash Sharma 1/3
Kolkata Knight Riders: 7/207 over 20, Venkatesh Iyer 83, Rinku Singh 48 not out, Nitish Rana 45, Rashid Khan 3/33, Alzarri Joseph 2/27