KKR defeated Delhi by 8 wickets. (Photo- PTI)
IPL 2026, DC vs KKR: In the 51st match of IPL 2026, Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Delhi Capitals quite easily. In this match played at Arun Jaitley Stadium, KKR won the toss and decided to bowl first and took great advantage of it. Delhi Capitals could score only 142 runs in 20 overs, which Kolkata achieved comfortably. On the basis of Finn Allen's stormy century, KKR achieved the target in just 14.2 overs.
Strong bowling of KKR
Delhi's batting was very poor in this match. Delhi played a total of 51 dot balls in this innings, due to which it could reach only 142 runs at the loss of 8 wickets in 20 overs. During this, Pathum Nissanka scored 50 runs in 30 balls. KL Rahul contributed 23 runs on 14 balls. At the same time, Ashutosh Sharma played an inning of 39 runs in 28 balls. But the rest of the batting could not do anything special.
Anukul Roy and Karthik Tyagi were the most successful bowlers for Kolkata Knight Riders. Both bowlers took 2-2 wickets. At the same time, Vaibhav Arora, Sunil Narine and Cameron Green also got 1 success each. Even though Varun Chakraborty did not get a wicket, he also spent only 28 runs in 4 overs.
Finn Allen's stormy century
During KKR's run chase, New Zealand's explosive opener Finn Allen scored the first century of his IPL career. He scored unbeaten 100 runs in just 47 balls, which included 5 fours and 10 sixes. His strike rate was 212.76. With this, he also made the record of scoring the fastest century for KKR. Allen destroyed the Delhi bowlers and made the match one-sided, due to which KKR won in just 14.2 overs. Apart from him, Cameron Green also remained unbeaten after scoring 33 runs on 27 balls. At the same time, only Akshar Patel could take 1 wicket from Delhi side, the rest of the bowlers were complete flops.
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