IPL 2019: Top 5 game-changing moments from Week 1

#2 Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals

Prithvi Shaw

This entire match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Delhi Capitals felt like a complete roller coaster ride with lots of twists and turns. Kolkata Knight Riders were put in to bat first by Delhi Capitals. KKR struggled from the start and soon found themselves struggling at 61/5. Just as everyone had written KKR off, Dinesh Karthik (50 runs from 36 balls) and Andre Russell (62 runs from 28 balls) both stitched together a magnificent partnership that helped their team reach a total of 185/8 in 20 overs.

DC put up a tough fight thanks to a brilliant partnership between Prithvi Shaw and Shreyas Iyer. At one point Delhi was looking poised to win the match comfortably when Prithvi Shaw was dismissed for 99 runs. The remaining batsmen struggled to score many runs and soon Delhi managed to tie the game which meant it was time for a super over.

Delhi batted first in the super over and were reduced to just 10 runs. Looking at Russell and Karthik walk out to bat in the super over, it looked like the match would be over in just three balls, but Kagiso Rabada had other plans in mind. The South African pacer clean bowled Andre Russell in the third ball and restricted KKR to just seven runs helping Delhi win by three runs.

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