Narine and Uthappa perish; KKR 3 down

May 12, 2018 17:06

KKR 140-3 (13 ovs) vs Punjab | Scorecard

Ashwin has struggled with the ball for Punjab so far. Uthappa sweeps the first ball past Gayle at short fine leg for a four and two balls later he plays the slog sweep for a six over midwicket to raise the 50-run stand for the second wicket from just 25 balls.

Three more singles as KKR race to 106 for one in 10 overs, with Narine on 55 from 29 balls and Uthappa on 22 from 14 balls.

Left-arm pacer Sran comes into the attack. Uthappa guides the first ball to short thirdman and runs across for a single but Narine is struggling. However, Mohit Sharma fails to get the direct hit with Narine haven given up on making the crease but is lucky that the fielder missed.

Narine makes most of the reprieve as he heaves the second ball over square leg for a six and then smashes the next for a four, clipping it through the leg side.

Sran tries the slower bouncer but Narine is waiting as he pulls it comfortably over midwicket for the second six of the over, which goes for 17 runs.

Tye comes back as Narine smashes the second ball over the covers for a four. But Tye once again makes the breakthrough with the key wicket of Narine, who gets the edge and is caught behind.

Narine gave KKR a flying start with his cracking innings of 75 from 36 balls, having hit nine fours and fours sixes.

Tye strikes again two balls later as Uthappa mistimes the drive and is caught by Mohit at point after scoring 24 from 17 balls.

Dinesh Karthik looks in good touch as he punches Axar through the off-side for a four in the next over. A couple of singles before Karthik gets an edge over short thirdman for another boundary.

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