Kuldeep Yadav's four-for blows away Kolkata Knight Riders; Delhi Capitals win by 44 runs

Today is the day of double header in IPL, in the first match, Delhi Capitals beat Kolkata Knight Riders by 44 runs. Kuldeep Yadav took four wickets while bowling brilliantly in the match. At the same time, 3 wickets came in Khaleel Ahmed's account. Chasing the target of 216 runs, Kolkata's team could score only 171 runs.

Shreyas Iyer got out for the first half-century for KKR

Kolkata captain Shreyas Iyer was dismissed for 54 runs in 33 balls. This is his first fifty for Kolkata. His fifty came against his old team Delhi Capitals. Kuldeep Yadav dismissed Iyer.

Kolkata's third wicket fell in the form of Nitish Rana, he was dismissed by Lalit Yadav for 30 runs in 20 balls. In the very first over, Rahane got life in two consecutive balls. Venkatesh Iyer became the victim of Khaleel Ahmed after scoring 18 runs in 8 balls. Khaleel also took the wicket of Rahane.

Earlier, Delhi scored 215 runs for 5 wickets in 20 overs. David Warner top scored with 61 runs, while Prithvi Shaw also scored 51 runs. Sunil Narine got 2 wickets in the account of KKR.

Rahane gets 2 life donations

Ajinkya Rahane got two consecutive lives in the very first over of KKR's innings chasing the target. Both the times Rahane got a lifeline on the review.

Akshar and Shardul's stormy innings

Akshar Patel and Shardul Thakur put on 49 runs for the sixth wicket while batting. In the last two overs, both of them put a fierce class on KKR's bowlers. Akshar scored an unbeaten 21 off 14 balls and Shardul scored an unbeaten 29 off 11 balls.

DC scored 215 runs, which is the highest score so far this season.

Delhi scored 48 runs in the last 3 overs.

Axar Patel completed his 1,000 runs in the IPL with one run in the match.

Shardul Thakur scored 29 not out. This is his best score in IPL.

Pat Cummins spent 51 runs in 4 overs without taking a wicket.

Said Warner's bat

David Warner completed his 51st half century in IPL off 35 balls while batting brilliantly. He scored runs in every corner of the field. Playing his second match this season, David returned to the pavilion after scoring 61 runs in 45 balls. His wicket came in the account of Umesh Yadav and caught by Rahane at deep midwicket.

2 wickets came in Naren's account

KKR's star bowler Sunil Narine took 2 wickets for 21 runs while bowling well. He dismissed Lalit Yadav (1) and Rovman Powell (8). So far this season he has taken 4 wickets.

DC's 3 wickets fell within 13 runs

Delhi lost their second, third and fourth wickets in just 13 runs. The second wicket fell on the score of 148 and the fourth 161. The wicket of Rishabh Pant (27) came in Russell's account. Lalit Yadav (1) was dismissed LBW by Narine and the wicket of Rovman Powell (8) was also taken by Narine.

pant bang

Captain Rishabh Pant came to bat after Shaw's dismissal and he put a line of fours and sixes as soon as he came on the field. Warner and Pant added 54 runs in 27 balls for the second wicket. This partnership was broken by taking the wicket of Pant. Rishabh scored 27 runs in 14 balls and was dismissed by Andre Russell. In his innings, he hit 2 fours and as many sixes.

Shaw's second consecutive fifty

Prithvi Shaw, who was in excellent form, completed his fifty in 27 balls. However, he lost his wicket only after making a fifty. Varun Chakraborty clean bowled Prithvi and showed him the way out of the field.

This was Shaw's 12th and fifth half-century against KKR in the IPL.

Along with hitting the first six in the match, Shaw also completed his 50 sixes in the IPL.

In the last match against Lucknow also, Shaw scored 61 runs.

Prithvi Shaw became the second player to score 1,000 runs for Delhi in the power play. Before: Virender Sehwag (1250)

Shaw and Warner pair

Prithvi Shaw and David Warner added 93 runs for the first wicket. This pair was continuously increasing the pressure on the KKR bowlers. This partnership was broken by Varun Chakravarthy clean bowled Shaw. Prithvi Shaw was dismissed after scoring 51 runs in 29 balls.

DC's power play

Batting after losing the toss, Delhi started well. In the first 6 overs, Prithvi Shaw and David Warner scored 68 runs while raining fours and sixes and did not let a single wicket fall for the team. Both hit 10 fours and 2 sixes in the power play.

Playing XI of both the teams

DC: Prithvi Shaw, David Warner, Rovman Powell, Rishabh Pant (C/W), Sarfaraz Khan, Lalit Yadav, Axar Patel, Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, Mustafizur Rahman, Khaleel Ahmed.

KKR: Ajinkya Rahane, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer (c), Sam Billings (wk), Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Sunil Narine, Pat Cummins, Umesh Yadav, Rasikh Salaam, Varun Chakraborty.