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Kolkata Knight Riders won their first match in IPL-2025 with the help of 97 runs off 61 balls from Quinton de Kock. The team defeated Rajasthan Royals by 8 wickets on Wednesday. Moin Ali and Varun Chakraborty from KKR did highly economical bowling, both also took 2-2 wickets.
KKR chose bowling at Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati. Rajasthan scored 151 runs losing 9 wickets. Dhruv Juril scored 33 and captain Ryan Parag scored 25 runs from the team. Kolkata achieved the target by losing 2 wickets in 17.3 overs. Read match updates …
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. Player of the Match
Quinton de Kock batting with KKR, chasing the target of 152 runs, batted fast. Moin Ali was having a lot of trouble playing in front of him, but D Cock did not allow the pressure on his fellow batters. He hit 8 fours and 6 sixes on the difficult and slow pitch for batting. D Kock scored 97 runs on just 61 balls and gave the team a first win off 15 balls.
2. Hero of victory
- Vaibhav Arora: Vaibhav bowled well with the new ball and gave the team the first wicket. He bowled Sanju Samson. Then finally caught Shubham Dubey.
- Moin Ali: Moin, who came out to play the match in place of Sunil Narine, conceded just 23 runs in 4 overs of bowling. He also took 2 big wickets of Nitish Rana and Yashasvi Jaiswal.
- Varun Chakraborty: KKR’s mystery spinner Varun took 2 wickets for just 17 runs. He sent Rajasthan captain Ryan Parag and Vanindu Hasranga to the pavilion.
3. Fighter of the Match
Captain Ryan Parag from Rajasthan was seen showing the fight. He hit 3 sixes on a slow pitch and scored 25 runs off just 15 balls. Then gave 25 runs in 4 overs of bowling. Although he did not get any wicket, he tried his best to pressurize the KKR batter.
4. Turning point
Kolkata spinners put pressure on Rajasthan while bowling first. Moin and Varun gave 40 runs in 8 overs and took 4 wickets. Batting was the partnership gamechanger of D Cock and Angkrish Raghuvanshi. Both of them partnered 83 runs off 44 balls for the third wicket.
5. Did the captain say?
Rajasthan captain Ryan Parag said
170 good score. I made a hurry in batting, so we could score 20 runs. We were trying to dismiss Quinton quickly with the help of spin. Team management sent me to number-3, so I am happy with their decision. This year we have a young team, so everyone is learning. We are trying to learn from our mistakes.
Kolkata captain Ajinkya Rahane said
We bowled well in the first 6 overs. Middle overs was very important, Moin redeemed the opportunity and bowled well. He did not walk with batting, but is happy with his performance. In this format we want the players to play fearlessly. The bowlers go to the entire credit, who paid attention to taking wickets.
