da luck： Harshit Rana successfully defends 12 off the final over to hand the home side a thrilling four-run victory against Sunrisers
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Narine stifles Sunrisers after powerplayTwin 32s at a rapid pace from openers Mayank Agarwal and Abhishek Sharma gave Sunrisers the kind of start they needed to chase down 209, a target that would’ve required the fourth-highest chase in IPL history. But both fell in the sixth and eighth overs to short balls from Harshit and Russell respectively. It was around that time, just after the powerplay had ended, that Shreyas Iyer went to Narine.Narine bowled consistently on a good length and found turn in both directions to keep Rahul Tripathi and Markram quiet. He conceded only two runs in his opening over and very nearly had Tripathi dismissed in his second when the batter mistimed a slog sweep. But a dropped chance from Chakravarthy gave Tripathi a second life.Tripathi would then receive a third life when Narine had him pinned in front of the stumps in the 11th over. But the umpire turned the appeal down and KKR did not review it.When Narine finally dismissed Tripathi in the 17th over, caught at deep square leg off the penultimate ball of his spell, he let out a roar, a rare display of emotion, as he earned just rewards for his impressive spell. Narine finished with eight dots bowled and zero boundaries conceded.Salt finds support in RamandeepThe KKR innings had begun disastrously when Narine – promoted to open again – fell cheaply to a run-out. Then Natarajan picked off Venkatesh Iyer (7) and Shreyas (0) in the same over to leave KKR 32 for 3.That forced Salt to rein his shot-making in, having initially started his innings with a hat-trick of sixes off Marco Jansen. The KKR batters, Salt included, struggled when Bhuvneshwar bowled in the fourth-stump channel in the powerplay, and by the eighth over they were 51 for 4 when Nitish Rana reverse swept Markande to backward point.But in No. 6 Ramandeep, Salt found a partner who could counterattack. Ramandeep was not intimidated by the short-ball barrage attempted by Sunrisers captain Pat Cummins or Marco Jansen. He pulled both bowlers for sixes in the ninth and 11th overs respectively and then began the 12th with an inside-out six off Shahbaz Ahmed. He was eventually caught at cover by a diving Markande off Cummins for a 17-ball 35 but by then he had ensured the KKR innings did not stagnate in the middle overs.Salt finally reached his third IPL fifty in the 14th over off Markande’s bowling and looked disappointed when he fell for 54 in the same over. However, a KKR recovery from 51 for 4 to 119 for 6 in the space of 6.2 overs had given Rinku and Russell enough of a platform to capitalise on. And capitalise they did.
