Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Rajasthan Royals in the 28th match of IPL. Dhruv Jurel’s brilliant stumping sent Cameron Green to the pavilion at the Eden Gardens Stadium. Ajinkya Rahane could not open the account for the 12th time. Whereas Varun Chakraborty completed his 200 T-20 wickets. KKR vice-captain Rinku Singh missed the catch in the 11th over, he scored a fifty and gave the team its first win of the season. Whereas Karthik Tyagi took 3 wickets in a single over. KKR vs RR: Moments and Records… 1. Varun Chakraborty completes 200 T-20 wickets. KKR spinner Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets for just 14 runs against RR. With this he completed his 200 wickets in T-20 cricket. He now has 202 wickets in his name in 155 matches. He has taken 73 wickets for India and 105 wickets in IPL. 2. Karthik Tyagi took 3 wickets in 1 over. Karthik Tyagi took 3 wickets in the 19th over of Rajasthan’s batting. For this he spent only 2 runs. 3. Archer got a wicket on the first ball in the third match. Jofra Archer once again took a wicket on the very first ball in the IPL. He bowled the first ball of the innings in swinger on good length. Tim Seifert went to play the shot, but the ball hit his pads and hit the stumps. Earlier, Archer had also sent Phil Salt of Bengaluru and Abhishek Sharma of Hyderabad to the pavilion on the very first ball. 4. Rahane is the opener who has ducked the most number of times. Ajinkya Rahane has reached the top in terms of most ducks as an opener in IPL. Nandre Berger sent him to the pavilion against Rajasthan. Rahane could not open his account for the 12th time in IPL. Before him, Parthiv Patel had been out on zero 11 times. Shikhar Dhawan and Gautam Gambhir could not open the account 10 times each. 5. Green out due to excellent stumping by Jurel. Ravi Bishnoi gave Rajasthan the third wicket in the 5th over. Cameron Green went forward to play, but Bishnoi cleverly placed the googly on the leg side. Green missed the ball, wicketkeeper Dhruv Jurel showed agility, dived to the left, caught the ball and hit it straight into the stumps with one hand. Green had to return to the pavilion after scoring 27 runs. 6. Burger missed the catch of Rinku. In the 11th over, Nandre Burger missed the easy catch of Rinku Singh. Ravindra Jadeja bowled the first ball of the over on a good length outside the off stump. Rinku went to play a big shot, but the ball stood in the air towards short third man. Burger came under the ball, but could not catch it. At the time of Jeevandan, Rinku was on the score of only 8 runs, he scored a fifty and gave victory to the team. 7. Yash Raj Punja took debut wicket. 19 year old Yash Raj Punja came to play as an impact player from Rajasthan. He bowled Ramandeep Singh in the 14th over of the innings and his fourth over. This was his first wicket in T-20 cricket and IPL. He had come to play his debut match. Rajasthan bought him for Rs 30 lakh on the basis of his performance in the Maharaja T-20 Trophy of Karnataka. ——————————– Also read this sports news… IPL- Kolkata’s first win in the season Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) registered their first win in IPL 2026 by defeating Rajasthan Royals (RR) by 4 wickets. Batting first at Eden Gardens, Rajasthan could only score 155/9 in 20 overs. In reply, Kolkata achieved the target in 19.4 overs. Rinku Singh played an important inning of 53 not out in the team’s victory. Read the full news…
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