Kolkata/IBNS: The Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) set a target of 162 runs for the Kolkata Knight Riders (KRR) in its away match at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Sunday.
KKR captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss of their second home match and elected to bowl first against LSG.
Batting first, LSG scored 161 for the loss of 7 wickets as the team managed to score just 17 runs in the last 12 balls, even after a successful 18-run 18th over.
Nicholas Pooran scored the highest 45 runs (32 balls) for LSG, while skipper KL Rahul scored 39 runs of 27 balls.
For KKR, Mitchell Starc picked 3 wickets for 28 runs in his 4-over spell, while Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Varun Chakaravarthy and Vaibhav Arora took one wicket each.
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