The 13th match of the Ipl season 11 between Gautam Gambhir's Delhi Daredevils and Dinesh Karthik's Kolkata Knight Riders was one of the thrilling matches. The DD won the toss and chose to field first. Delhi Daredevils, having won their last match were brimming up with confidence to register another win in their name in the match against Kolkata Knight Riders. However, the dream to take over KKR didn't fulfil. The KKR who came to bat first after losing the toss set a target of 201 runs in front of Delhi Daredevils. Well, the Gautam Gambhir's devils failed to scare Dinesh Karthik's riders on the ground and lost the match.
The KKR batsmen gave a fantastic performance with their magical bat and crushed the Gautam Gambhir Delhi Daredevils. KKR's Nitish Rana played commendably and beaten hard with his ball successfully scored fantastic fifty-nine. He hit 5 fours and 5 sixes until KKR's skipper took his catch. Andre Russell also played well and scored 41 runs, Robin Uthappa 35, Dinesh Karthik 19 runs. The Delhi Daredevil's Rahul Tewatia took 3 crucial wickets of KKR's. Nitish Rana becomes the man-of-the-match.
Well, Delhi Daredevil had a bad start and none of its batsmen stood for long other than Rishabh Pant (43) and Glenn Maxwell (47). However, the shining star of KKR Kuldeep Yadav and Sunil Narine took 3 wickets each and snatched the match from the DD's jaw.
Here's the complete scoreboard of the DD vs KKR match 13:
KKR's batting and DD bowling:
DD batting KKR bowling:
Playing eleven:
Kolkata Knight Riders
Dinesh Karthik (C) (W), Piyush Chawla Tom Curran Cameron Delport Ishank Jaggi Mitchell Johnson Kuldeep Yadav Chris Lynn Prasidh Krishna Sunil Narine Nitish Rana Andre Russell Javon Searles Shivam Mavi Shubman Gill Rinku Singh Robin Uthappa Vinay Kumar Apporv Wankhade.
Delhi Daredevils
Gautam Gambhir (C), Abhishek Sharma Avesh Khan Trent Boult Dan Christian Sayan Ghosh Gurkeerat Mann Singh Shreyas Iyer Sandeep Lamichhane Manjot Kalra Glenn Maxwell Amit Mishra Mohammed Shami Chris Morris Colin Munro Shahbaz Nadeem Naman Ojha Rishabh Pant (W) Harshal Patel Liam Plunkett Jason Roy Vijay Shankar Prithvi Shaw Rahul Tewatia Jayant Yadav.
Also read: IPL 2018: Virat takes a catch, Anushka blows a flying kiss; see video