KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Venkatesh smacks RAsikh over deep cover and finishes off the game! KKR WIN BY 7 wickets! 

KKR: 157/3 (16.3), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Kuldeep tosse it up, outside off. Shreyas reverse sweeps it over deep backward point for a six! 

KKR: 151/3 (16), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A flat length delivery by Axar and Shreyas smacks it between backward point and short third man for a four!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Nine off this over as KKR edge closer to the target, with Venkatesh (14*) and Shreyas (18*) currently batting. 

KKR: 130/3 (13), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A googly by Kuldeep Yadav, short on the stumps. Venkatesh pulls it to deep square leg for a four! 

KKR: 118/3 (11.2), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A short of length delivery by Williams, and Rinku tries to pul. He edges it to third man for a catch! 

Rinku c Kuldeep b Williams 11 (11)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Axar sends a flat arm-ball and it curves back in. Salt is beaten and his off stump gets hit! OUT! 

Salt b Axar 68 (33) 

KKR: 96/2 (8.1), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A flat length delivery by Axar, and Narine directs it to the fielder at deep midwicket for a simple catch! 

Narine c Fraser-McGurk b Axar 15 (10) 

KKR: 79/1 (6.1), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A full toss by Khaleel and around off. Salt slices it beind square on the off side for a four, followed by another four between backward point and short third! 

KKR: 79/0 (6), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A poor delivery by Khaleel, full and around off. Salt whacks it over long-off for a six! GETS HIS HALF-CENTURY IN ONLY 26 BALLS! SRK is up on his seat, applauds!

KKR: 71/0 (5.4), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A slow delivery by Salam and Narine toe-ends this over extra cover for a four as KKR cross 50!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A full delivery by Williams and Salt clobbers him over long-off for a six! Then Williams sends a full delivery again, on middle, and Salt skies him over cow corner for a 94m six! SHOTSSSS! 

KKR: 40/0 (3), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A full delivery by Khaleel and Salt miscues it to Williams near mid-on for a simple catch, but he drops it!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A straight delivery by Williams, on middle and leg. Salt clobbers it to fine leg for a four, followed by a single. Then it is a no ball, and Narine goes for a single. Salt is there for the free hit, wide. Then he smacks him for a six over deep midwicket, followed by a four! Leg byes again and Narine pulls the final ball for a four, behind square on the leg side. 

KKR: 23/0 (1), Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Salt and Narine to open for KKR int his chase. Williams to bowl the first over! 

Target: 154

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A slow ball by Russell, and on middle, leg. Kuldeep gets a top edge, past the wicketkeeper for a four! 

DC: 153/9 (20)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A slow off-cutter by Rana and Salam lobs it to mid-off for a simple catch! 

Salam c Iyer b Rana 8 (10) 

DC: 139/9 (18.2)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A short of length delivery by Rana, and Salam guides it to third man for a four! 

DC: 136/8 (17)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A short delivery by Starc, to Kuldeep. He gets a top edge as he tries to pull, it goes to Rana, who is running to his left from deep square leg. But he parries it over for a six! Starc can only smile here!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Chakaravarthy is in destruction mode here! He sends a googly and Kushagra gets an inside edge to the wicketkeeper for a catch! 

Kushagra c Salt b Chakaravarthy 1 (3)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: An off-break delivery by Narine and Kuldeep gets a top-edge to the empty short fine region for a four!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: IT IS RAINING WICKETS HERE! Narine gets one too, in the final over of his spell! He sends a carrom ball, short length. Axar doesn't connect at all! HITS THE STUMPS! 

Axar b Narine 15 (21) 

DC: 101/7 (13.3)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A legbreak delivery by Chakaravarthy, and outside off. Stubbs goes for the cut, but edges it to the wicketkeeper for a catch! 

Stubbs c Salt b Chakaravarthy 4 (7) 

DC: 99/6 (12.1)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Arora and Rana have been impressive for KKR this season. In this match, Arora has already taken two wickets and Rana has struck once.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Pant vs Chakaravarthy in IPL- 

Innings - 6 

Balls - 30 

Dismissals - 30 

Runs - 31 

SR - 103

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Chakaravarthy tosses it up, outside off. Pant tries to go big, but ends up slicing it high up in the air for a catch at extra cover! 

Pant c Iyer b Chakaravarthy 27 (20) 

DC: 93/4 (10.1)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A length delivery by Chakaravarthy, outside off. Axar guides it through cover for a double. 

DC: 80/4 (9)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A length delivery by Chakaravarthy and Pant tries to swipe, but top edges it to Rana for a simple catch, from short third. But he drops it!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A length delivery by Rana, and Porel goes for the ramp, but misses completely! OUT! HITS THE STUMPS! 

Porel b Rana 18 (15)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Short of a length delivery by Rana and outside off. Porel ramps it over the wicketkeeper for a four! Then Rana sends a length ball, outside off, which is slammed by Porel over cover for a six, followed by a four past short third!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Back of a length delivery by Arora, on off. Hope opens up, but misses. The ball hits the top of off! OUT!!! 

Hope b Arora 6 (3)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: SPECTACULAR CATCH BY VENKATESH! Fraser-McGurk attacks Starc and hits it to the leg side boundary, but it loops in near the ropes and Venkatesh takes a low catch! GOOD CATCH! 

Fraser-McGurk c Venkatesh b Starc 12 (7)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: A full delivery by Arora and down leg. Shaw gets a faint touch, and it goes to the wicketkeeper for a catch! Loud appeal and KKR review. There was a faint edge, and Shaw left even before the replay came along! 

Shaw c Salt b Arora 13 (7)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Starc starts with a full ball, outside off and Shaw whacks it through extra cover for a four! It is a wide in the next ball, and then Shaw hammers Starc for a four again, through square leg. The next ball goes for a four past Starc, followed by a dot and a single. In the final delivery, Starc sends it full, on the pads of Fraser-McGurk, who inside edges it onto his pad. Goes for a single, and 15 runs leaked! 

DC: 15/0 (1)

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Shaw and Fraser-McGurk walk in to open the innings for DC. Meanwhile, Starc will bowl the opening over for KKR.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: In IPL 2024, Eden Gardens has seen the most sixes, 127. So we could see Pant and Fraser-McGurk going crazy in the first innings!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: DC opted to bat and might have made the right decision. KKR pacers have the worst economy rate this season, 11.25.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: KKR- Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Shreyas Iyer(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy

DC- Prithvi Shaw, Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Rasikh Dar Salam, Lizaad Williams, Khaleel Ahmed

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: After winning the toss, DC captain Pant said, "We'll bat first. The way our team is poised, would look to put a score on the board. Wicket looks slightly on the slower side. Shaw comes back, Kushagra misses out. Rasikh Dar starts in place of Mukesh I guess. Talk is to take one match at the time." 

Meanwhile, KKR captain Iyer said, "We were looking to bowl first. Rishabh and I were having a chat - he said 'we're looking to bat' and I said we're looking to bowl. We're trying to keep things as simple as possible. When you lose a game like that, scoring 260, it's easy for people to go away from each other and backbite. But we're keeping everyone together. Starc and Vaibhav Arora are back."

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Iyer and Pant are here for toss! The KKR skipper flips it and Pant calls heads! It's heads and Pant opts to bat!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Toss is coming up and is scheduled for 7:00 PM IST.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Since 2022 in T20s, McGurk has been dismissed four times by leg spinners in eight innings, facing 51 balls, with an average of 18.5.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: DC are in a two-match unbeaten run and will look to bag their third straight win today. But they face a strong KKR side, who are second in the table.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: In terms of worst economy rate in overs 17-20, DC have the worst, with 14.7, followed by KKR (12.7) and SRH (12.6).

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: In their first four matches, DC had an average of 24.3, with a strike rate of 151.7. They lost three games and won only once. In their next six games, they had an average of 33.7, with 180.1 strike rate, with a 4-2 win-loss result.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Best strike rate in power play in IPL 2024- 

Fraser-McGurk: 265.2 

Abhishek Sharma: 233.7 

Travis Head: 229.2 

Sunil Narine: 177.4 

Phil Salt: 175.4

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: DC spinners have taken the most wickets, 21, in IPL 2024. While KKR are third with 18 wickets. So we could see some spin magic today!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Varun has been good against Pant in the past and has dismissed him twice in 28 balls. Meanwhile, he has also been good against Stubbs.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Runs have been easy at Eden Gardens this year, and teams have opted to bowl in each of the five match eso far, and dew has had an impact. Humidity will also be key.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Pant is currently sixth in the Orange Cap race with 371 runs in 10 matches. Meanwhile, Narine is seventh with 357 in eight games.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Fraser-McGurk is currently third in the list for most IPL 2024 fifties, with three. He is behind first-placed Samson (4 in nine matches) and Kohli (4 in 10 games) in second. He has the chance to over both of them tonight!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Pant has smacked Russell for 52 runs in 24 balls in the IPL at a strike rate of 216.7. He has fallen to him three times in seven innings.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Warner, who sustained a finger injury, and Ishant, who had back spasms, will need another week to recover and are expected to not feature today for DC.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Starc missed KKR's last game due to a finger injury and there hasn't been any update regarding it yet. If he is back, he will replace Chameera.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: McGurk has defied all expectations. Among openers who have scored atleast 100 runs in powerplay this season, his strike rate of 252.08 is the highest. He has already smacked 22 sixes in IPL 2024, which is joint-fifth in the list in only five innings.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Narine has exploded with the bat this season and the spinning all-rounder has been hailed by KKR captain Iyer. 

Speaking ahead of the match, Iyer said, "We have to sum up the conditions and come up with better ideas. It is brilliant to see him Narine go out there and strike the ball, hopefully he keeps continuing with such performances."

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Speaking ahead of the match, DC captain Pant said, "He Fraser-McGurk has been amazing since the first day and this is what you want from a younger player, he's getting better and better with each game. The chances (of making it to the playoffs) are increasing day by day, but we are taking it one game at a time."

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Their last meeting was a run fest with Narine clobbered 85 off 39 balls as KKR posted the third-highest total in IPL history. In reply, DC could only manage 166.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Kuldeep has bowled three balls to Narine in IPL, dismissing him twice, for an average of 2.00. In general, Kuldeep has a good record vs KKR, having played for them earlier. He has taken 10 wickets in three matches against them, striking every six balls.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Narine has scored 357 runs in eight matches this season, at a strie rate of 184.02, and has been well-complemented by opening partner Salt. The pair have gone at a run rate of 12.36, second-best for any opening pair while averaging 50.75.

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: DC have found it hard this season but seem to have finally found their winning combination. They are now equal on points with KKR and it is expected to be a blockbuster clash!

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Jake Fraser-McGurk, Abishek Porel, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel, Kumar Kushagra, Kuldeep Yadav, Lizaad Williams, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, Rasikh Dar Salam, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Ricky Bhui, Sumit Kumar, Prithvi Shaw, Anrich Nortje, Lalit Yadav, David Warner, Yash Dhull, Swastik Chikara, Jhye Richardson, Ishant Sharma, Gulbadin Naib

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: Philip Salt(w), Sunil Narine, Venkatesh Iyer, Andre Russell, Shreyas Iyer(c), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Angkrish Raghuvanshi, Dushmantha Chameera, Varun Chakaravarthy, Harshit Rana, Suyash Sharma, Anukul Roy, Manish Pandey, Vaibhav Arora, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Mitchell Starc, Allah Ghazanfar, Sakib Hussain, Sherfane Rutherford, Chetan Sakariya, Nitish Rana, Srikar Bharat

KKR vs DC IPL Live Score, Kolkata Knight Riders vs Delhi Capitals: KKR have been among the strongest teams of the tournament thus far, DC seem to be enjoying a wave of good form, having won their last two matches in a row and four out of their last five. Who will prevail today, we will have to wait and watch. Watch this space for more updates!

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