Helped majorly by Shreyas Iyer’s 88, Delhi posted a mammoth 228/4 but playing at Sharjah and with Andre Russell in their line-up, Kolkata seemed like a side who could pull off the record chase.
However, the managed just 210/8 in their 20 overs. Nitish Rana anchored the first half of the innings with a well crafted 58 off 34 balls scoring four fours and as many sixes. Kolkata were brought back into the game by a 78-run stand for the seventh wicket between Eoin Morgan (44) and Rahul Trupathi (36). The pair smashed 24 runs in the 17th over and 23 runs off the 18th over. However once Morgan got out, Kolkata needed 26 runs off the last over and they eventually fell short by 18 runs.
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