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PL 2026 Match No. 51 was played between KKR and DC at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. In this match, KKR won by 8 wickets.
In this match, DC batted first and scored 142 runs. After that, KKR chased down the target in just 14.2 overs. Finn Allen played a brilliant innings, scoring a century (100 runs) for the team. KKR went on to win the match by 8 wickets.
If we talk about this season, KKR did not show much strong performance in the beginning. However, with this match, they have now won their fourth consecutive game. This is a positive sign for the team and shows improving form and momentum.
With this win, KKR have moved up to 7th position in the points table, while DC are placed at 8th position.
So far in this season, KKR have played 10 matches. Out of these, they have won 5 matches against MI, SRH, LSG, CSK, and GT. One match against Punjab Kings ended with no result due to rain. They have also won 4 matches against RR, LSG (in a tied match which KKR won in the Super Over), SRH, and DC.
DC have played a total of 11 matches in this season so far. Out of these, they have won only 4 matches against LSG, MI, RCB, and RR. They have lost 7 matches against GT, CSK, SRH, Punjab Kings, RCB, CSK, and KKR.
In this match, DC did not perform particularly well with the bat and were restricted to just 142 runs. However, two players played good innings for the team. Pathum Nissanka scored 50 runs off 29 balls, hitting 5 fours and 4 sixes. The other standout performer was Ashutosh Sharma, who scored 39 runs off just 9 balls, hitting 3 fours and 3 sixes.
- KL Rahul: 23 runs (14 balls, 4 fours, 0 sixes)
- Nitish Rana: 8 runs (10 balls, 1 four, 0 sixes)
- Sameer Rizvi: 3 runs (7 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
- Tristan Stubbs: 2 runs (4 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
- Axar Patel: 11 runs (22 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
- Vipraj Nigam: 3 runs (3 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
- Mitchell Starc: 0 runs (2 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
- Lungi Ngidi: 1 run (1 ball, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
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KKR won this match mainly due to the efforts of two players — Finn Allen and Cameron Green. Both of them played till the end and guided the team to victory.
Finn Allen played a brilliant unbeaten innings of 100 runs off 47 balls, hitting 5 fours and 10 sixes. Cameron Green also contributed with a steady unbeaten 33 runs off 27 balls, including 2 sixes.
Ajinkya Rahane (c): 13 runs (9 balls, 1 four, 1 six)
Angkrish Raghuvanshi: 1 run (3 balls, 0 fours, 0 sixes)
Photo: @BCCI
Pathum Nissanka, KL Rahul (wk), Nitish Rana, Sameer Rizvi, Tristan Stubbs, Axar Patel (c), Ashutosh Sharma, Vipraj Nigam, Mitchell Starc, Lungi Ngidi, Mukesh Kumar
Ajinkya Rahane (c), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wk), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Anukul Roy, Kartik Tyagi, Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakaravarthy
