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Kolkata: Kolkata Knight Riders performed brilliantly and defeated Lucknow Super Giants by 8 wickets to achieve their fourth win in the tournament. Phil Salt was the hero of Kolkata's victory. Salt scored unbeaten 89 runs on 47 balls. After winning the toss and batting first, Lucknow Super Giants scored 161 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. In reply, Kolkata achieved the target by losing 2 wickets in 15.4 overs. With this, Kolkata has defeated Lucknow for the first time in IPL.
Phil Salt's brilliant batting
Kolkata Knight Riders opener Phil Salt batted brilliantly. Salt scored unbeaten 89 runs in 47 balls with the help of 14 fours and three sixes. He also made a partnership of 120 runs for the third wicket with Shreyas Iyer. Iyer remained unbeaten after scoring 38 runs on 38 balls.
Mitchell Starc's three wickets
The most expensive player of IPL-2024, Mitchell Starc also looked in form today. Starc took three wickets for 28 runs in 4 overs. Apart from this, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakraborty and Russell got one wicket each for Kolkata.
Earlier, Nicholas Puran, who came to bat first for Lucknow, scored 45 runs. Puran hit 2 fours and 4 sixes in 32 balls. Apart from this, captain KL Rahul contributed 39 runs in 27 balls with the help of 2 sixes and three fours. Ayush Bhadoni contributed 29 runs, De Kock 10, Deepak Hooda contributed 8 runs. Stoinis also got out after scoring only 10 runs.
