Kolkata Knight Riders vs Punjab Kings Highlights: Umesh Yadav, Andre Russell lead KKR to big win over PBKS. Cricket News – Times of India

Mumbai: Umesh Yadav continued his dream by taking the first four wickets andre russell returned to his brutal best to fire Kolkata Knight Riders easy win by six wickets Punjab Kings Here on Friday.
Umesh (4/23), coming into the season with more than two games IPL Going unsold early in the season and at auction, career-best T20 figures set to help KKR Punjab was dismissed for 137 runs in 18.2 overs.

It was a straight forward chase, but Rahul Chahar raised Punjab’s hopes with a double wicket to reduce KKR to 51 for four.
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However, Russell (70 not out from 31 balls) came in the middle and changed the game with his sixes, eight overall, taking it easy in just 14.3 overs. He hit three sixes in an over of 30 runs off Odeon Smith.

No rope is long enough when Russell is all guns blazing and he was in that kind of area on Friday night. The Jamaican dasher ended the game with two sixes off Liam Livingson’s friendly leg-break.
It was KKR’s second win in three matches while Punjab suffered their first defeat of the season after a win over RCB.

Earlier, the KKR bowlers throttled the Punjab Kings batting line-up.
With heavy dew setting in the latter half of the game, fielding first became a no-brainer in this IPL and KKR captain Shreyas Iyer got it right at the toss.
Punjab, who had successfully chased down 200 in their opening game, enjoyed a decent powerplay, scoring 62 for 3 in six overs.
Veteran pacer Umesh, who has been proving his critics wrong this season, once again provided an early breakthrough in the game, removing opposition skipper Mayank Agarwal, who missed a straight and full delivery in the first over. had appeared. match.

Sri Lankan Bhanuka Rajapakse (31 off 9) who played a match-winning knock in the first game looked in sensational touch at the Wankhede Stadium.
In his brief stay in the middle, the top-order batsman hit three fours and as many sixes, mostly towards the mid-wicket region, leaving the visitors stunned.
His breathtaking effort was perhaps the only bright one in an otherwise formidable innings.
Iyer impressed with his leadership. He brought back Umesh in the middle overs to ensure that there was no fight against Punjab. He also put a slip in the 15th over and for this he got the wicket of Rahul Chahar.
His new ball partner Tim Southee and KKR’s retained spinners Varun Chakraborty and Sunil Narine were also very good for the Punjab batsmen.
Livingstone (19 off 16) converted his start, while India Under-19 star Raj Angad Bawa was finding it difficult for the second game in a row.
Kagisa Rabada (25 off 16), playing her first game of the season, saved Punjab from getting close to 140 by securing a much-needed boundary.