{"id":21864,"date":"2025-04-30T08:35:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=21864"},"modified":"2025-04-30T08:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:50:57","slug":"kolkata-knight-riders-clinch-fourth-win-in-ipl-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/kolkata-knight-riders-clinch-fourth-win-in-ipl-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Kolkata Knight Riders clinch fourth win in IPL 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p class=\"\" data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"246\"><strong>Agency, April 30:<\/strong> Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) secured their fourth victory in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a 14-run win over Delhi Capitals in a thrilling match held on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"248\" data-end=\"527\">Chasing a daunting target of 205 runs, Delhi managed to score 190 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their allotted 20 overs. Faf du Plessis led Delhi\u2019s scoring with a solid 62, while skipper Axar Patel contributed 43. Vipraj Nigam added 38 runs and Karun Nair chipped in with 15.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"529\" data-end=\"742\">KKR\u2019s bowling unit delivered a collective performance. Sunil Narine starred with the ball, taking 3 wickets, while Varun Chakaravarthy grabbed 2. Anukul Roy, Vaibhav Arora, and Andre Russell claimed a wicket each.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"744\" data-end=\"1074\">Earlier, after losing the toss and being sent to bat at the Arun Jaitley Stadium, KKR posted a competitive total of 204 runs for 9 wickets in their 20 overs. Ankkrish Raghuvanshi top-scored with 44 runs, followed by Rinku Singh with 36, Sunil Narine with 27, and Rahmanullah Gurbaz and skipper Ajinkya Rahane each contributing 26.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1076\" data-end=\"1235\">For Delhi, Mitchell Starc was the pick of the bowlers with 3 wickets. Vipraj Nigam and Axar Patel took 2 wickets apiece, while Dushmantha Chameera claimed one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-start=\"1237\" data-end=\"1416\">With this win, Kolkata climbed to seventh place on the points table with 9 points from 10 matches. Delhi, with 12 points from the same number of games, remains in fourth position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, April 30: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) secured their fourth victory in the Indian Premier League (IPL) with a 14-run win over Delhi Capitals in a thrilling match held on Tuesday night. Chasing a daunting target of 205 runs, Delhi managed to score 190 runs for the loss of 9 wickets in their allotted 20 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21866,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21864\/revisions\/21866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}