IPL 2019
Match 21: KKR Vs RR Post Analysis
No Lag in Kolkata Chase
In Last IPL Rajasthan Royals came in top 4 with the help of Jos Butler and Jofra Archer. But this year they are at the second from bottom position with yesterday's lose. In the match held at Jaipur RR failed to set a challenging target to the team like KKR which is having many hitters. Rajasthan batted first and set a target of just 139 runs with 7 wickets remaining. Yes, its true they lose only three wickets in the meantime they should focus in raising the score but where they failed. Even during presentation Rahane mentioned that and worried a lot.
Rajasthan opened with Butler and Rahane, again rahane failed to score a big and reducing his chances of getting in the world cup squad. For the next wicket Steve Smith joined with Jos Butler both batted well and building the partnership. When score is 77 for 1 in 11.5 overs Butler lost his wicket and the plan of RR completely collapsed. Smith put partnership with Tripathi and Stokes in the remaining 48 balls. Both the batsmen played only 22 balls and scored only 13 runs. On the other end Smith scored half century but the run rate never increased even he faced the remaining 26 balls after the lose of butler. There the strategy of RR completely failed, they focused on not losing wicket but didnt worried about the score. Finally RR ends up with just 139 runs which wont be sufficient to control KKR batsmen.
As usual like other matches spinners performed well Chawla finished in quota with 19 runs and Narine with 22 runs. Kolkata started to chase the small target at jaipur pitch with Lynn and Narine. Both started to hit from the first over itself. Narine smashed boundaries even he got a life from Shreyas gopal. Finally he got out when he was 47 runs from 25 balls. At that time kolkata were 91 for 1 in 8.1 overs. There itself match over within few overs Lynn lost his wicket after reaching his half century in Gopal over. No pressure for KKR they have already crossed 114 runs. So in the place of Rana, Subhmann Gill came to bat and finished the innings with Uthappa at the end of 14th over. Like this powerless smith batting and the rajasthan plan makes another defeat for RR. Now RR has to win many matches for qualifying playoff even their runrate also worst. But with this win KKR moved to the top of table just ahead of CSK with greater net runrate.
And the next match for KKR with CSK, both the table toppers fighting to clinch the top spot. Because all the teams know that many overseas will go their country at the end of first round. Before that they should took as much as point they can. But this wont affect for CSK, because many of the overseas players in the team were retired from International cricket.
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