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Rajasthan Royals Beats Kolkata Knight Riders By Three, Hopes Are Still Alive

Mumbai: Must win match as both the team is struggling get momentum to reach playoffs, whereas KKR lost their 5 consecutive matches on the other hand RR is who have three wins from their ten matches so far, are in a strange place even if they win all their matches, it might not be sufficient to take them through to the playoffs.

Batting first KKR struggled on flat pitch as Chris Lynn lost his wicket in first over of the innings itself didn’t manage to open his account and get back to the dugout.

Meanwhile, Shubman Gill and Nitish Rana also lost their wickets couldn’t able to provide much run to their team, Gill 14 (14) and Rana 21(26).

The crowd was waiting to watch Russel mussel show but… today RR was in form with their bowling as Oshane Thomas successfully dismissed with a surprising bouncer which Russell couldn’t manage to strike the ball out of the stadium and lost his wicket scored just 14 runs off 14 balls.

Even Sunil Narine didn’t play well but it was the captain who played a fabulous inning and brought his form back scored 97 runs off just 50 balls it was very important innings for Karthik as a lot of questions were raised against him through this innings he answered all the question which was raised in his captaincy.

With this KKR scored a defendable total of 175 runs with the loss of 6 wickets.

For RR Varun Aaron took 2 wickets following Oshane Thomas and Shreyas Gopal provided one wicket with each to the team.

Chasing the target of 176 runs RR openers provided good start scored 50+ runs in powerplay itself but soon lost inform batsman Ajinkya Rahane scored 34 off 21 balls, meanwhile Samson also lost his wicket to Piyush Chawla.

For Rajasthan Royals, today middle order didn’t contribute well as Ben Stokes and Steve Smith lost their wickets soon. It seems KKR will finally win today but… it’s an incredible Premier league. Riyan Parag played fabulous innings which brought RR very close to the total scored 47 runs off 31 balls but soon lost his wicket. Another power packed performance by Jofra Archer who is playing his last game of the IPL season scored 27 off 12 balls by which RR registered their 4th game of the innings and hopes are still alive.

For KKR it’s another bad day as they lost the sixth consecutive match. The team need to look after the things which have been missing for a long time.

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