Eoin Morgan played captain inning, beat Punjab kings

Last night kkr beat Punjab kings by 5 wickets. Eoin Morgan is back in the form and is taking the KKR on a winning track. In a low scoring match kkr beat punjab kings by 5 wickets. With this win both teams stand on the same points. KKR goes up with this win. In fact this win was much-needed for KKR.

In the toss, KKR won the toss and chose to bowl first. Because in the second inning dew came on the ground. So this is the reason for bowl first. The start of punjab kings inning was very slow. But in the power play they did not lose any wicket. But they did not take the advantage of this. After the power play KL Rahul got out. After his wicket Punjab kings trash like playing cards. Because after that Gayle out on zero and Deepak Hooda out on 1 score. 

Mayank Aggarwal looks good and has some good shorts. But he also got out on 31 runs. Get a good start but he did not convert into a big score. The rest of the players did not do well, only Chris Jordan hit some sixes and reached the score 122. Krishna Parshid took 3 wickets and Narine or Cummins took 2-2 wickets.

Coming for the chase, KKR also did not get a good start and lost their openers very early. Just 9 runs KKR lost their both openers and took all the pressure. But Rahul Tripathi played sensible cricket and after that built the partnership with Eoin morgan. With this partnership KKR won the match. Rahul Tripathi made 41 runs and Eoin Morgan Made 47 runs.

Henriques and Shami, Hooda and Arshpreet singh took 1-1 wickets. But it’s hard to defend this small target on that ground which the ball wet because of dew.

Eoin Morgan got the player of the match award.