DC was stun by the heroics of Narine and Russel

Decision made by KKR management (Gautam Gambhir) to start the innings with Caribbean allrounder has worked well for KKR, Sunil Narine has given flying starts to KKR and against dc he made his highest IPL score of 85 on just 39 balls smashing 7 four and 7 sixes allowing KKR to defeat dc by a huge margin of 106 runs providing heavy dent to their NRR in Vishakhapatnam on Wednesday.

Narine Russell and Raghuvanshi storm at Vishakhapatnam

The old Sunil Narine is back with his pinch-hitting abilities this season. After three quiet overs, where he was kept in check by Khaleel Ahmed and Ishant Sharma managing only 8 runs off his first nine deliveries, he took the attack to the latter in the fourth. he completed his half century in only 21 balls, and you know what he scored 43 runs in the last 12 ball some ruthless batting by Narine. KKR were 88 just for 1 loss after powerplay but he was not the only one hitting sixes around the park one more Indian young batting talent Angkrish Raghuvanshi smashing 54 just in 27 balls on his debut. After the fall of Narine on 85 DC expected some relief but KKR management wanted the entertainment to continue and hence the promotion of Andre Russell in 13th over as the Indian commentator Akash Chopra say ” ANDRE ANDAR GEND BAHAR” similar things happened on the ground he smashed 41 runs in just 19 balls with the strike rate of 215 making sure that KKR reach well above the par score and the scored mammoth 272 on the loss of 7 wickets.

DC Batting disappointment continues

Chasing such total DC needed a good start but they lost 4 wicket in powerplay including 2 ducks scored by Mitchel marsh and Abhishek poral , Rishabh pant the lone warrior for DC scored 55 at the SR of 220 but he fell to Chakravarthy, Triston stubs continue his good run with the bat scored half century 54 of 32 balls but the target was too big to be chased by 2 half centuries and DC lost a home game by 106 runs.

DC moved to 9th in Point table

After the loss DC is 9th in points table with only 1 win in 4 games and bad NRR OF -1 whereas KKR topped the table with 3 out of 3 wins and a NRR OF +2.5. DC need to pick their game up if they want to contest for the top 4 spot.