IPL 2024 – LSG vs KKR – KKR go top of the table after commanding Narine-led show against LSG
Kolkata Knight Riders 235 for 6 (Narine 81, Salt 32, Raghuvanshi 32, Naveen 3-49) beat Lucknow Super Giants 137 (Stoinis 36, Rana 3-24, Varun 3-30, Russell 2-17) by 98 runs
Narine crushes it in the first 12 overs
Salt was the first aggressor, hitting 21 off the first nine ball he faced. But he was soon out for 32 off 14, and from then it was the Narine show.
Narine warmed up with five fours, then started getting the big hits going at the end of the fourth over, bludgeoning a Mohsin Khan short ball over deep square-leg, clubbing Krunal Pandya over deep midwicket not long after, and later thrashing Yash Thakur over the square-leg boundary. In the middle overs, he dealt almost exclusively in sixes, and by the end of his stay, he had walloped seven, to go with six fours. He holed out to long-off attempting another six off LSG’s best bowler, Ravi Bishnoi, who was the only one to finish with an economy rate lower than 11.
