Lucknow became the team going to the third playoff of the season – KKR beat by just 1 run

KKR vs LSG: Lucknow Supergiants have entered the playoffs of the current season of the Indian Premier League. Krunal Pandya's team has become the third team to qualify for the playoffs. The team defeated Kolkata by one run. With this victory of Lucknow, Kolkata Knight Riders is out of the race. Kolkata has become the fourth team to be eliminated from the current season. After Match 68, one playoff spot is now vacant. For this Bangalore, Mumbai and Rajasthan are in the race.

Kolkata won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Eden Gardens Stadium. Playing first, Lucknow scored 176 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs. In response, the Kolkata batsmen could only manage 175 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs.

Kolkata wickets fell like this

First: On the 5th ball of the 6th over, Krishnappa Gautam got Venkatesh Iyer caught by Ravi Bishnoi.

Second: On the third ball of the 9th over, Ravi Bishnoi got Nitish Rana caught by Krunal Pandya.

Third: Krunal Pandya bowled Jason Roy on the last ball of the 10th over.

Fourth: Yash Thakur got Gurbaj caught by Ravi Bishnoi on the third ball of the 14th over.

Fifth: Ravi Bishnoi bowled Andre Russell on the fourth ball of the 16th over.

Bang bang start of kolkata

Kolkata started with a bang. The team scored 61 runs for one wicket in 6 overs. Venkatesh Iyer got out after scoring 24 runs.

Roy-Venkatesh's half-century partnership

Chasing a target of 177 runs, Kolkata openers gave their team a brisk start. The pair of Jason Roy and Venkatesh Iyer scored 61 runs off 35 balls. This partnership was broken by Krishnappa Gautam by dismissing Venkatesh.

Lucknow scored 176 runs with Pooran's fifty

Batting first after losing the toss, Lucknow scored 176 runs for 8 wickets in 20 overs.

Kolkata won the toss and elected to bowl first at the Eden Gardens Stadium. Nicholas Pooran scored 58 runs on 30 balls from Lucknow. Quinton de Kock contributed 28, Prerak Mankad 26 and Ayush Badoni contributed 25 runs.

Vaibhav Arora, Shardul Thakur and Sunil Narine took 2-2 wickets.

Lucknow's wickets fell like this

First: On the third ball of the third over, Harshit Rana got Karan Sharma caught by Shardul Thakur.

Second: On the third ball of the 7th over, Vaibhav Arora got Prerak Mankad caught by Harshit Rana.

Third: On the 5th ball of the 7th over, Vaibhav Arora got Marcus Stoinis caught by Venkatesh Iyer.

Fourth: On the fourth ball of the 10th over, Sunil Narine got Krunal Pandya caught by Rinku Singh.

Fifth: On the first ball of the 11th over, Varun Chakraborty got De Kock caught by Russell.

Sixth: On the last ball of the 18th over, Sunil Narine got Ayush Badoni caught by Shardul Thakur.

Seventh: On the third ball of the 19th over, Shardul Thakur got Nicholas Pooran caught by Iyer.

Eighth: Shardul Thakur bowled Ravi Bishnoi on the 5th ball of the 19th over.

Puran scored the second half-century of the season

Nicholas Pooran scored the second fifty of the season. This is the sixth fifty of his career. Puran completed the half century in 28 balls. Puran got out after scoring 58 runs on 30 balls.

Pooran-Badoni's half-century partnership

After losing de Kock's wicket, Nicholas Pooran and Ayush Badoni shared a half-century partnership for the sixth wicket. Both added 74 runs on 47 balls.

Lucknow scored 54 runs for one wicket in Powerplay

Lucknow made a decent start in the powerplay. The team scored 54 runs for one wicket in the first 6 overs. Karan Sharma, who came to open, returned to the pavilion on 3 runs.

2 changes in LSG

There was no change in the Kolkata team. Whereas Lucknow landed with 2 changes. Karan Sharma came in place of Deepak Hooda and Krishnappa Gautam came in for Swapnil Singh.

The first match of the day was played between Delhi Capitals (DC) and Chennai Super Kings (CSK).

Playing-11 of both the teams

Kolkata Knight Riders: Nitish Rana (c), Jason Roy, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Harshit Rana, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakraborty.

Impact Players: Suyash Sharma, Mandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, N Jagadeesan, David Wiese.

Lucknow Super Giants: Krunal Pandya (Captain), Quinton de Kock (Wicket-keeper), Prerak Mankad, Marcus Stoinis, Nicholas Pooran, Ayush Badoni, Karan Sharma, K Gautam, Naveen-ul-Haq, Ravi Bishnoi, Mohsin Khan.

Impact Players: Yash Thakur, Daniel Symes, Yudhvir Singh, Deepak Hooda, Kyle Mayers.