Match 33 : Rahane, Conway & Shivam's quick fifties powered Chennai to set huge 236 runs target and out played Kolkata by 49 runs

IPLT20 2023 Kolkata Kinght Riders vs Chennai Super Kings match played on Sunday, April 23, 2023 at Eden Gardens Stadium, Kolkata.

Putting into bat first by Kolkata, Chennai with wonderful batting performances by all top order batsmen set very huge target of 236 runs for Kolkata to get. Ruturaj Gaikwad's 20 balls 35 runs, Devon Conway's 40 balls 56 runs, Shivam Dube's 21 balls 50 runs and Ajinkya Rahane's 29 balls 71 unbeaten runs were highlights of Chennai inning. Total 18 sixes were smashed by CSK batsmen.

Following huge target of 236 runs, Kolkata lost both openers on eam score 2 runs. Other top orders also failed to bat well but middle order batsmen Jason Roy with 26 balls firing 61 runs and Rinku Singh with 33 balls 53 unbeaten runs played well and KKR managed to score 186 runs in 20 overs. Chennai registered convinsing win by hue margins of 49 runs. Deshpande and Theekshana took 2 wkts each for CSK. AM Rahane declared man of the match for his firing 29 balls 71* runs.

Man of the match :- AM Rahane (CSK)
Points : Chennai 2, Kolkata 0
IPL KKR vs CSK match live score Toss : Kolkata won and field first Result : Chennai won by 49 runs Man of The Match : AM Rahane (CSK) Points - Chennai 2, Kolkata 0   Chennai 1st Inning     Batting   R B 4s 6s SR   Ruturaj Gaikwad b Suyash Sharma 35 20 2 3 175.00   Devon Conway c Wiese b Varun 56 40 4 3 140.00   Ajinkya Rahane not out 71 29 6 5 244.82   Shivam Dube c Roy b Khejroliya 50 21 2 5 238.09   Ravindra Jadeja c Singh b Khejroliya 18 8 0 2 225.00   MS Dhoni (c) (w) not out 2 3 0 0 66.66   Moeen Ali               Ambati Rayudu               Matheesha Pathirana               Tushar Deshpande               Maheesh Theekshana                               Extras (nb 1, w 2) 3           Total (20.0 overs) 235/4 RR: 11.75   Kolkata       Bowling O M R W NB WB Eco   Umesh Yadav 3 0 35 0 0 0 11.66   David Wiese 3 0 38 0 0 0 12.66   Varun Chakravarthy 4 0 49 1 0 0 12.25   Kulwant Khejroliya 3 0 44 2 1 0 14.66   Sunil Narine 2 0 23 0 0 0 11.50   Suyash Sharma 4 0 29 1 0 0 7.25   Andre Russell 1 0 17 0 0 2 17.00   Kolkata 2nd Inning     Batting   R B 4s 6s SR   Narayan Jagadeesan (w) c Jadeja b Deshpande 1 3 0 0 33.33   Sunil Narine b Akash Singh 0 3 0 0 0.00   Venkatesh Iyer lbw b Ali 20 20 2 1 100.00   Nitish Rana (c) c Gaikwad b Jadeja 27 20 4 1 135.00   Jason Roy b Theekshana 61 26 5 5 234.61   Rinku Singh not out 53 33 3 4 160.60   Andre Russell c Dube b Pathirana 9 6 0 1 150.00   David Wiese lbw b Deshpande 1 2 0 0 50.00   Umesh Yadav c Conway b Theekshana 4 4 0 0 100.00   Varun Chakravarthy not out 0 3 0 0 0.00   Kulwant Khejroliya                               Extras (lb 1, w 9) 10           Total (20.0 overs) 186/8 RR: 9.30   Chennai       Bowling O M R W NB WB Eco   Akash Singh 4 0 29 1 0 1 7.25   Tushar Deshpande 4 0 43 2 0 4 10.75   Maheesh Theekshana 4 0 32 2 0 1 8.00   Moeen Ali 1 0 20 1 0 0 20.00   Ravindra Jadeja 3 0 34 1 0 0 11.33   Matheesha Pathirana 4 0 27 1 0 3 6.75 IPL Points Table 2023