LSG are all out for 137
98 The margin of KKR's victory in this match.
Just as I finished typing that last update, Harshit Rana angled one into Bishnoi, who was struck on the pad in front of leg stump. The batter reviews, but is not saved by the third umpire. LSG's last home match ends badly - their net run rate will take a significant hit here.
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LSG nine down now. It's all but over.
Andre Russel took two. Varun Chakaravarthy has three dismissal at least. Harshit Rana has two, and Sunil Narine and Mitchell Starc have one apiece.
LSG need 99 runs off 24 balls, which would be almost impossible with even 10 wickets in hand. But they only have one.
It's all but over for
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Required rate getting big on LSG
16.12 Required rate for LSG, with eight overs remaining, and five wickets left
Marcus Stoinis is out. Nicholas Pooran is out. LSG are crashing in their last home game.
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Someone keep Ramandeep out of the game.
KL Rahul is out in the eighth over off the bowling of Harshit Rana, and who is the catcher at deep point but Ramandeep. It's the Ramandeep and Narine show at Ekana Stadium tonight, with LSG struggling to keep touch with their very demanding required rate.
As I'm typing this, Varun Chakravarthy has got Deepak Hooda lbw as well. Marcus Stoinis remains LSG's biggest hope.
Here's Ramandeep taking the first of those catches, btw. The best take of the night.
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Narine's first over slaps
4 No. of runs Narine conceded off his first over.
After producing the innings of the game so far (81 off 39 if you weren't following), Narine comes in in the powerplay and bowls a banger of a first over. There's a wide in there, but only three runs come off the bat.
LSG are behind the required rate, and have three more Narine overs to face. They've got a mountain to climb.
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Ramandeep Singh on fire in the field as well!
LSG seemed to have the thrusters on early in their innings, makign 20 off the first 11 balls. But then Ramandeep tracks a high chance back from point, sprinting full tilt then diving full length to get his hands under the ball, which had come off Arshin Kulkarni's leading edge. And KKR have their first.
LSG's first two overs:
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Mid-match show
Here are our experts breaking down that KKR performance:
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Ramandeep finishes strong
235 for 6 is what KKR ended up with. It's not terribly far away from the 250 they were headed to, and they certainly have the bowling to make that an incredibly difficult target for the home team.
After an underwhelming start to the death overs, Ramandeep Singh found his range in the 19th and 20th overs, pummeling 25 off 6 balls. Three of the balls he faced he hit for six, one he hit for four, one he scored two off, and off the other he claimed a single.
If you're looking for a rundown of that innings: 2, 6, 1, 6, 4, 6.
Spectacular hitting from your no. 7.
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Are LSG pulling it back?
9 The scoring rate between the end of over 13 and the end of over 18, when it had been almost 12 beforehand.
KKR had ended the 13th over at 155 for 2, and looked set for a total in the range of 250. But LSG have controlled the innnings better since, taking vital wickets. KKR will be the ones feeling they need a strong finish here, after their blistering start.
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Naveen bowls a tidy, wicket-taking over
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A nine-run 15th over, with the wicket of Andre Russel in the mix? Yah, LSG will take that given the circumstances.
Naveen had looked to go full and wide at Russel, and although the batter had crashed the first ball for four down the ground, and the second one was a wide, Naveen stuck to the plan, and got Russel caught off the top edge just beyond cover (it was a wonderful catch running back from K Gowtham).
Then he gives away just four more runs off the rest of the over. Can LSG fight their way back here?
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Narine goes, but Russel continues the hitting
3 Narine's position in the tournament run charts after tonight's 81 off 39
Narine lived dangerousouly in the last couple of overs - he could have been caught at long on, but the fielder there overbalanced and stumbled over the rope. He could have been caught at short third, but the fielder couldn't quite hold on as he dived and stretched above his head and to the left.
Eventually he is caught on the point boundary, but through the course of a hugely destructive innings, he's set KKR on course for something epi. And Russel hits a six in his first four balls to suggest he's going to pick up exactly where Narine left off. .
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Three Narine sixes off the 11th over
Even in the context of this match, which has had a lot of massive overs already, this - bowled by Marcus Stoinis - was a giant one. Narine is in SUBLIME six-hitting form now, and he crashes Marcus Stoinis three times over the legside to send KKR to 129 after 11.
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The milestones keep coming
- Narine gets to a half century off 27 balls, his third fifty of the season to go with a century.
- Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi put on a fifty-run partnership for the second wicket, to follow the half-century opening stand.
- KKR make triple figures in the ninth over.
- Even as I type this carnage continues
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Narine keeps crushing it
He's now blown past 400 runs for the season, and is driving KKR towards triple figures. He bashes Krunal Pandya hiiiigh over deep midwicket for his latest boundary.
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Salt is out
Salt is gone, and LSG's life is a little sweeter.
The opening partnership had inflicted plenty of damage, though. They got to 50 in 3.4 overs, and have set KKR on track for a huge score.
Still, LSG will breathe easier now that Naveen-ul-Haq has got KKR's tournament high scorer caught behind off a slower ball. Salt chased a wide one, and only got a light top edge to it.
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KKR openers start brightly
Phil Salt and Sunil Narine are the best opening combination of the tournament so far, and Salt has got into a boundary-hitting rhythm already. He's hit 27 off his first 11 balls. With consecutive fours off the last two balls of the third over, Narine has raced into double figures also.
The three overs so far:
First over bowled by Marcus Stoinis.
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Second bowled by Mohsin Khan
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Third bowled by Naveen-ul-Haq
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Lucknow Super Giants bowl first
Teams:
KKR: P Salt, S Narine, V Iyer, S Iyer, Rinku Singh, A Raghuvanshi, A Russell, Ramandeep Singh, M Starc, H Rana, V Chakravarthy.
Impact: Anukul, Pandey, Vaibhav, Bharat, Rutherford
LSG: KL Rahul, M Stoinis, D Hooda, N Pooran, A Turner, A Badoni, K Pandya, R Bishnoi, N Ul Haq, Mohsin Khan, Y Thakur.
mpact: Kulkarni, M Siddharth, Gowtham, Yudhvir, Padikkal.
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Live preview show
While we wait for toss details to filter through, here are Tom Moody, Mitchell McClenaghan, and Wasim Jaffer looking ahead to tonight's clash.
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Welcome folks.
13 Total number of matches these teams have won, out of 20.
Waddup. This is our live report for the almost top of the table clash between Kolkata Knight Riders, who are second on charts, and Lucknow Super Giants, who are third.
We'll have the toss details for you soon.
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