Kolkata Knight Riders hustled to a 106-run victory over Delhi Capitals in the sixteenth match of the India Premier League 2024 on Wednesday in Visakhapatnam. Starc collected two significant wickets from David Warner and Mitchell Marsh, declaring his return to the ball in the ongoing tournament.
Prior, KKR choosing to bat subsequent to winning the throw again saw brutal Sunil Narine play his career-best of 85 runs, pushing the side to the second-best absolute in IPL history. Narine’s innings turned out to be too challenging to even think about containing Delhi’s carefully prepared bowlers, Ishant Sharma and Khaleel Ahmed, being hit for limits. The tide of runs for KKR went on, with youthful Angkrish Raghuvanshi terminating (54) off (27), and unstable Andre Russell impacting (41) off (19).
Pursuing the aggregate, KKR bowlers assembled an early strain on DC hitters, with Vaibhav Arora excusing Prithvi Shaw and Mitchell Starc scalping Mitchell Marsh. Abhishek Porel was destroyed by Vaibhav Arora for a five-ball duck, while Starc again struck to send back risky David Warner. Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs had brought back little expectations, playing 55 and 54-run thumps each separately; however, Varun Chakaravarthy thumped down the two hitters to bowl out DC for (166) with 16 balls to go.
