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    Kolkata Knight Riders moved to the top of the IPL 2024 points table by defeating Delhi Capitals by 106 runs
Kolkata Knight Riders moved to the top of the IPL 2024 points table by defeating Delhi Capitals by 106 runs
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Delhi Capitals by 106 runs. Source: Cricket Today

Kolkata Knight Riders moved to the top of the IPL 2024 points table by defeating Delhi Capitals by 106 runs

Sunil Narine scored a career-best 85 off 39 balls, leading Kolkata Knight Riders to a resounding 106-run victory over Delhi Capitals, securing their third consecutive win in the Indian Premier League on Wednesday.

Kolkata came close to breaking Hyderabad Sunrisers' IPL record of 277 runs scored against Mumbai Indians last week, finishing on 272-7 despite facing fast bowlers Anrich Nortje (3-59) and Ishant Sharma (2-43).

Kolkata's Mitchell Starc (2-25) and substitute Vaibhav Arora (3-27) halted Delhi's run-chase during the batting powerplay, resulting in Delhi being bowled out for 166 in 17.2 overs.

Kolkata's victory propelled them to the top of the leaderboard in the lucrative T20 league, while Delhi slipped to ninth place with only two points from one win in four games, just above the winless five-time champion Mumbai.

Delhi's decision to play with only one spinner, Axar Patel, backfired against Narine and Angkrish Raghuvanshi. The duo formed a 104-run partnership for the second wicket in just 48 balls.

Narine hit seven sixes and seven fours, while Raghuvanshi scored 54 runs off 27 balls with three sixes and five boundaries.  Both batsmen fell in successive overs, Narine top-edging a pull off Nortje to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant and Raghuvanshi was caught at third-man boundary attempting a ramp shot off a short ball from Sharma.

Andre Russell continued the onslaught with a quickfire 41 off 19 balls and Rinku Singh struck Nortje for 25 in the penultimate over to remain unbeaten on 26 off just eight balls.

Hyderabad's record was easily achievable for Kolkata, but Sharma only conceded eight runs in the final over and bowled Russell out with a perfect yorker.

Starc claimed the wickets of Australian teammate David Warner (18) and out-of-form Mitchell Marsh (0) in his opening spell, after failing to take a wicket in the first two matches of his first IPL season since 2015. As Delhi slipped to 33 for 4 in the fifth over, Arora dismissed Prithvi Shaw (10) and Abishek Porel (0).

Pant (55) and Tristan Stubbs (54) both made rapid half-centuries, with Pant hitting two sixes and four boundaries in Venkatesh Iyer's over. However, both were dismissed by leg-spinner Varun Chakravarthy (3-33) while attempting big shots, resulting in Delhi being bowled out with 16 balls remaining.

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