On the 24th match of Dream11 IPL 2020, Kolkata Knight Riders held their nerve for the second time in a row and successfully defended 164 runs.
After electing to bat, KKR lost inform right hander Rahul Tripathi early as Mohammad Shami got their breakthrough in the third over. KXIP picked their second wicket in the next over in the form of a runout following a mix-up between southpaw Nitish Rana and Shubman Gill.

KKR needed some someone to hold on the crease at that stage and Eoin Morgan and Gill did it as KXIP managed to keep things extremely tight. The KKR duo added 49 runs together before Morgan went for the big one at 24 and was caught hold at long-on off Ravi Bishnoi’s bowling in the 11th over.

KKR lost 3 good wickets in the first half of the innings. In came skipper Dinesh Karthik who joined Gill in the middle. Karthik did not for too long as he creamed a six on the final ball of the 14th over to take KKR past 90.

In the next over, Gill brought up his second fifty of the IPL season as KKR moved past hundred.

Karthik then started taking the charge as he took on Arshdeep Singh, hitting the impressive left-arm medium-pacer for three fours in the 16th over. The DK show continued as he went after Chris Jordan in the next over, hitting the England pacer for two fours and a six over long-off. With that KKR crossed 130-run mark with Karthik moving to 43 off just 19 balls.

While KXIP somehow managed to end Gill’s innings in the 18th over, DK continued to take the charge from one end, bringing up his first fifty of IPL 2020 in 22 balls.

KKR added 18 runs in the last two over to post 164/6 on the board in their quota of 20 overs.

In the chase, KL Rahul got an early life as Russell could not hold onto a running catch and injured himself while saving a boundary.

Mayank Agarwal then striked two fours and a six in the fourth over off Prasidh Krishna. KXIP brought up their fifty in the seventh over without loosing any wicket.

While there were a few overs where KKR did not concede many, But Mayank and KL were looking very solid up the order and Mayank hit two crisp fours in the 11th over and the kings moved closer to hundred.

Later, KL Rahul and Mayank Agarwal raced up their fifties as KXIP continued their march in the chase.

KKR managed to break the Mayank-Rahul partnership in the 15th over as they dismissed Mayank for 59.

Nicholas Pooran and Rahul then scored 19 off the 16th over, with Pooran hitting a four and a six and Rahul adding one more four to his account.

KKR had pulled back a game at the death against CSK and they once again started to pull things back against KXIP when Sunil Narine, conceding just two runs, dismissed Pooran in the 18th over.

With 20 needed from two overs, Prasidh Krishna gave away only 6 runs and picked two wickets, including that of KL Rahul.

KXIP needed 14 off the last 6 balls and Narine was handed over the responsibility to bowl that over. While KXIP could only score 2 off the first two balls, Glenn Maxwell hit a four off the third to bring down the target to 8 from 3 balls. KKR then gave away just a run and scalped a wicket of Mandeep Singh as he wnet to slog Narine between mid wicket and square leg. KXIP needed to score 6 off the last ball to push the game into the Super Over.

While Maxwell went big, the ball landed just before the boundary rope for four as KKR won the game by 2 runs to add two points to their account.