As we all know that IPL 2019 has been running successfully.In the sixth match of Indian premier league, Kolkata knight riders match was against King ll Punjab. Moreover, Both this team before this match have won the match. Both teams were having 2 points each in one match. In the previous match for Kolkata, Andrew Russell played a brilliant innings to win against sun riser Hyderabad. While, King ll Punjab win against Rajasthan Royals in their first match, with the great innings of Chris Gayle which helped to win the first match of season 12 of Indian premier league.

This match was held at Eden Garden of Kolkata which is home ground for Kolkata Knight Riders and so they took advantage of it to win the match against king ll Punjab. Ravichandran Ashwin, skipper of Punjab won the toss and decided to field first. Everyone was confused as they see Sunil Narine opening with Chris Lynn in the second match because in the first match inform batsman whitish Rana opened the innings with Chris Lynn. He had played brilliant knock to win the match against Hyderabad along with Andrew Russell which he had opened the innings.

Sunil Narine and Chris Lynn were the two openers who start the innings for KKR. Narine is known for a big hitter and he does the work for the team. king ll Punjab bought Varun Chakravarthy at 8.5 crores and in the first over of his debutant he conceded 25 runs. After than Viljoen and Tye keep the pressure and take a wicket of Chris Lynn and Sunil Narine. After scoring 24 runs in 9 balls which help the team to get a good start. Later on, Robin Uthappa and Nitish Rana carried the innings forward. For the 3rd wicket, they played a 110 runs partnership which keeps Punjab bowlers in pressure.

Kolkata able to cross 200 runs after Russell came with a knock of 48 runs in just 17 balls which help KKR to have 218 runs on the board. Now, the pressure was on king ll Punjab batsman as it was a huge target and it has never been chased 200+ runs in this ground. Chris Gayle and Rahul who opened the innings for king ll Punjab. Once again, Rahul dismisses for one digit score. Gayle has to play like a storm and so for hitting boundaries, he was out in the bowling of Andrew Russell. Later on, Sarfaraz was out in the bowling of Russell. Now it was difficult for the team to win the match.

Mayank Agarwal and David Miller who takes the score forward. They even not lose hope until 17 overs. Unfortunately, Mayank departs and pressure comes to Miller and one batsman cant able to score 75 runs in 3 overs. But finally, they lose the match by 28 runs. It was Andrew Rusell and Nitish rana show at Eden garden. Kolkata fans are happy due to the performance of their team winning the match they came to the second position of the point table.