Big relief for Dinesh Karthik as Kolkata Knight Riders beat Chennai Super Kings by 10 runs today at Abu Dhabi in IPL 2020 match.

After winning the toss KKR opted to bat first. They register 167 runs on the board after losing all 10 wickets. Rahul Tripathi who came to open the innings of KKR with Shubman Gill played an important knock of 81-runs. Gill contributed 11-runs in first wicket partnership. Apart from Tripathi non of KKR batsmen scored good run in this match. Sunil Narine and Pat Cummins both played a knock of 17-runs. Nitish Rana (9), Eion Morgan (7), Andre Russel (2) failed to impress with the bat.

In the response to the below-par total scored by KKR, CSK started well. Shane Watson scores 50 while inform Faf scored 17 in this match. Ambati Rayudu scores 30. At one time in this match, CSK was 129/4. But having wickets in hand CSK failed to finish this match in style. After 20 over they were 10 runs short. This is the fourth defeat for Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team. With 2 wins from six matches they are situating at No 5 in the points table. KKR is at No 3 in the points table with 3 wins from five matches.