Gujarat Lions 16/0 (2 Ovs)

Warwickshire’s Woakes went wicketless and conceded 35 runs in his three overs but he was to end up victorious as the Kolkata cruised to a 10-wicket victory with 31 balls to spare.

Gujarat Lions has set 184 as target for KKR to win in an IPL match here on Friday.

Lynn had already raced away to 16 off 6 when Manpreet Gony, playing his first game since 2013, erred with a full delivery. We did not bowl well in the first six overs. So it was a bit of a surprise when Chris Lynn strode out to partner Gambhir in Kolkata Knight Riders’ 184 chase. It was punctuated with mishit shot after mishit shot, with majority either falling short of the fielders or landing on the grass via a drop. Having won two IPL titles for KKR, Gambhir knows what’s at stake here.

Gambhir, 76 not out off 48 balls, including a dozen to the boundary, eclipsed Virat Kohli as the highest run-scorer in IPL history.

The Gujarat bowlers had by then thrown the towel in and Lynn and Gambhir continued with their onslaught.

Lynn hit 93 not out off just 41 balls whacking six fours and eight sixes and was in devastating form.

“Kolkata Knight Riders is a very unsafe side having players like Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Manish Pandey. all are very good players”. We are going to give Lynny a longer run. “With hard hitters such as Brandon McCullum and Dwayne Smith coupled with the all-round cricketing genius of the likes of Dwayne Bravo and Suresh Raina, fireworks are expected out of the team this year”, said Piyush Kumar, CEO and Founder, Rooter.

Kuldeep Yadav took two wickets at the expense of 25 runs to become the top bowler for KKR.

KKR brought on Chris Woakes in the sixth over and Raina cracked two boundaries to begin with.

McCullum, Finch and Karthik, all hit 2 sixes each.

Dinesh Karthik joined Raina in the middle and the duo started a fix job. With more than 4000 runs in this tournament, Suresh Raina is the second-highest run getter and is an IPL legend.

The effort generated applause from all corners, the most humorous one coming from Boult’s fellow New Zealander in the box Danny Morrison, who commented by saying, ” WHO SAYS KIWIS CAN’T FLY!” However, his innings would have ended in that over itself had Kuldeep Yadav managed to keep the ball in his hands as he covered a lot of ground to take a tough catch.