IPL 2018: Kolkata need 161 runs to win against Rajasthan

Rajasthan set a target of 161 runs against Kolkata at Sawai Mansingh Stadium, Jaipur on Wednesday. Earlier Kolkata won the toss and opted to field.

Batting first, Rajasthan put up a modest targeton the board. Both the openers Ajinkya Rhane and D Arcy Short started the innings well.

Rajasthan's skipper, Ajinkya Rahane scored 36 runs off 19 balls and D Arcy Short also contributed well with his bat and scored 44 runs off 43 balls.

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Scoreboard of Rajasthan:

A Rahane st Karthik b Rana 36
D'Arcy Short b Rana 44
S Samson c Yadav b Mavi 7
R Tripathi c Russell b Yadav 15
B Stokes c Rana b Chawla 14
J Buttler not out 24
K Gowtham c Mavi b Curran 12
S Gopal b Curran 0
D Kulkarni run out 3
J Unadkat not out 0

Extras (lb-1, w-3, nb-1) 5
Total (For 8 wkts, 20 Ov) 160

Kolkata kept taking wickets on regular intervals which restricted the batsmen to put up a giant score.

Fall of wickets: 54-1 (Ajinkya Rahane, 6.5), 62-2 (Sanju Samson, 8.4), 98-3 (D Arcy Short, 12.5), 106-4 (Rahul Tripathi, 13.6), 122-5 (Ben Stokes, 16.1), 141-6 (Krishnappa Gowtham, 18.1), 141-7 (Shreyas Gopal, 18.2), 160-8 (Dhawal Kulkarni, 19.5)

For Kolkata, Nitish Rana and Tom Curran took 2 wickets each. Other bowlers also like, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi got one wicket each.Both the teams have exactly the same squad as the previous games.