18.2: Anrich Nortje to Nitish Rana, FOUR! Bang! Kolkata win by 3 wickets! Superb shot. Back of a length, around off, Nitish Rana goes deep inside the crease and whacks it over backward point. Kagiso Rabada, in the deep, dives across to his left but it beats his attempt and finds the fence.
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18.1: Anrich Nortje to Nitish Rana, Mix-up but no harm done! A bit short and on middle, Nitish works it gently to the leg side and initially looks for a run. Lockie Ferguson responds but is sent back after that. The fielder misses his shy at the bowler's end.
End of over 18
KKR126/7
KKR Batting T Southee 3(5) N Rana 32(25)
0
17.6: Avesh Khan to Tim Southee, OUT! Bowled! Avesh Khan has another. His season is getting better and better. A bit short in length around off, Southee stays back to heave it over the leg side but gets a thick inside edge onto the stumps. 50 wickets in T20s for Avesh Khan and he has a smile on his face. Kolkata need 2 runs to win.
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17.5: Avesh Khan to Nitish Rana, Pitches it up and around off, Rana pushes it gently to the right of mid off for one.
1
17.4: Avesh Khan to Tim Southee, Direct hit would have been close. Fuller and on off, Southee drills it to mid off and rushes for a single. Rabada misses his shy at the bowler's end. 3 needed more.
2
17.3: Avesh Khan to Tim Southee, In the air... Safe! Short in length, around off, Southee top-edges his attempted pull to deep square leg. It falls safely, away from the diving attempt of the fielder in the deep and they take two.
0
17.2: Avesh Khan to Tim Southee, Slower one, on a length around off, Tim drags it off the inner half to mid-wicket.
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17.1: Avesh Khan to Tim Southee, Around off, on a length, Southee closes the face of his bat and pushes it to mid-wicket.
End of over 17
KKR122/6
KKR Batting N Rana 31(24) T Southee 0(0)
0
16.6: Anrich Nortje to Nitish Rana, Sharp delivery, outside off, Rana pushes and misses. Fine over from Anrich Nortje. 3 from it. 6 needed more for a win.
0
16.5: Anrich Nortje to Sunil Narine, OUT! Narine is gone! A needless shot but this is how he bats! Back of a length, outside off, Sunil Narine camps back to smack it through the line but it takes the top edge and flies to extra cover. Axar Patel is underneath it. End of a match-winning knock, possibly.
0
16.4: Anrich Nortje to Nitish Rana, PANT IN PAIN! Sharp delivery, that's quick. Nortje bowls it with a cross-seam and lands it on a length close to off, Rana tries to cut but misses. It goes to Pant and moves towards his right. He tries to collect it but misses. That brushes his fingertips and deflects away. They cross for a bye. Physio comes out.
1WD
16.4: Anrich Nortje to Nitish Rana, Wide! An attempted slower one by Anrich. It goes wrong though. Too wide outside off and Rana makes a leave.
1
16.3: Anrich Nortje to Sunil Narine, Full toss on middle, Narine goes back and hits it to the left of the mid-wicket fielder. They cross for a run.
0
16.2: Anrich Nortje to Sunil Narine, Another miss! Slower one, on a length and outside off, Narine is very early with the swing of his bat and misses.
0
16.1: Anrich Nortje to Sunil Narine, Swing and a miss! Anrich Nortje fires across a yorker-length delivery outside off, Narine tries to make contact but misses.
End of over 20
DC127/9
DC Batting K Rabada 0(1) A Khan 5(3)
0
19.6: Tim Southee to Kagiso Rabada, OUT! RUN OUT! And Delhi finish without hitting a single six in their innings! Slower ball, outside off. Kagiso Rabada looks to slog but he misses. The batters look to sneak in a bye but Dinesh Karthik is alert behind the sticks as he has a shy at his end. Avesh Khan is short of his crease and he sacrifices his wicket on the last ball of the innings. Delhi end with 127/9.
1
19.5: Tim Southee to Avesh Khan, Slower ball, on a length, around middle. Avesh Khan hits it in front of square on the leg side for a run.
4
19.4: Tim Southee to Avesh Khan, FOUR! DROPPED! Shubman Gill has dropped a sitter at deep mid-wicket. Length ball, around off. Avesh Khan heaves it uppishly towards deep mid-wicket. Shubman Gill there, settles under it but he makes a mess of it and the ball goes into the fence.
0
19.3: Tim Southee to Avesh Khan, Play and a miss! Length ball, outside off. Avesh Khan swings hard but he misses.
1
19.2: Tim Southee to Rishabh Pant, OUT! RUN OUT! Oh, no! Delhi's skipper has to walk back now! Full ball, around off. Rishabh Pant drags it to deep mid-wicket. He charges for the second run. Karun Nair (sub) is there in the deep who runs across and throws it back to Dinesh Karthik who whips the bails off in a flash. Rishabh Pant is well short of his crease in the replays and he departs.
1WD
19.2: Tim Southee to Rishabh Pant, Wide! Southee spills this one down leg. Pant shuffles across late to whip it but he leaves it in the end. Wide called by the umpire.
0
19.1: Tim Southee to Ravichandran Ashwin, OUT! TAKEN! Ravichandran Ashwin departs! A slower ball, on a length, outside off. Ravichandran Ashwin looks to pull but he miscues it in the air towards deep square leg. Nitish Rana runs forward and takes an easy catch. A heated conversation between Southee and Ashwin. Verbal volleys thrown. Dinesh Karthik intervenes and calms down Ashwin. Maybe, the talk was regarding that extra run which Delhi took on the last ball after it deflected off Pant's body.
End of over 19
DC120/6
DC Batting R Pant 38(35) R Ashwin 9(7)
2
18.6: Venkatesh Iyer to Rishabh Pant, A yorker, around off. Rishabh Pant digs it out to point. The batsmen cross as the fielder has a shy at the bowler's end. It deflects off Pant's body and they collect another run.
2
18.5: Venkatesh Iyer to Rishabh Pant, Full ball, on off. Rishabh Pant drills it to long on and Ravichandran Ashwin looks to take another run. The throw comes in to Venkatesh Iyer but he fails to collect it cleanly and Ashwin survives.
1
18.4: Venkatesh Iyer to Ravichandran Ashwin, Length ball, on off, Ravichandran Ashwin lofts it to long on, on the bounce. Ben Cutting (sub) comes running in and keeps it to one.
1
18.3: Venkatesh Iyer to Rishabh Pant, Full-length ball, on leg. Rishabh Pant drags it to deep mid-wicket for a run. Rishabh Pant has now surpassed Virender Sehwag to become the leading run-scorer for Delhi in the Indian T20 League.
0
18.2: Venkatesh Iyer to Rishabh Pant, A yorker, around off. Rishabh Pant digs it out back to the bowler.
4
18.1: Venkatesh Iyer to Rishabh Pant, FOUR! A juicy full toss, on off, Rishabh Pant drills it to the right of long off. Ben Cutting (sub for Lockie Ferguson) fumbles and concedes a boundary.
End of over 18
DC110/6
DC Batting R Pant 29(30) R Ashwin 8(6)
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17.6: Tim Southee to Rishabh Pant, Full-length ball, on middle. Rishabh Pant drags his heave wide of long on for a single.
4
17.5: Tim Southee to Rishabh Pant, FOUR! Finally, he gets hold of this one! Full ball, outside off. Rishabh Pant clears his front leg and carves it over extra cover for a boundary.
1
17.4: Tim Southee to Ravichandran Ashwin, Slower ball, on a length, outside off. Ravichandran Ashwin punches it to deep cover for a run.
1
17.3: Tim Southee to Rishabh Pant, A yorker-length ball, on off. Rishabh Pant digs it out to the right of Tim Southee who runs and keeps it to one.
0
17.2: Tim Southee to Rishabh Pant, Full ball, outside off. Pant gets low and looks to reverse-paddle Southee over short third man but he fails to get any bat on it.
1
17.1: Tim Southee to Ravichandran Ashwin, Good-length ball, on leg. Ravichandran Ashwin turns it to deep square leg for one.
18.2: Anrich Nortje to Nitish Rana, FOUR! Bang! Kolkata win by 3 wickets! Superb shot. Back of a length, around off, Nitish Rana goes deep inside the crease and whacks it over backward point. Kagiso Rabada, in the deep, dives across to his left but it beats his attempt and finds the fence.