Even as the field spread, Delhi had one quiet over where Narine was dropped when he was on 52. In the very next over by Axar Patel, the West Indian hit two sixes while Raghuvanshi went after Sumit Kumar. At the halfway mark, KKR were 135/1.
While it was raining fours and sixes with Narine standing tall and hitting every bowler who came his way, Raghuvanshi was no less. He reverse swatted Rasikh Salam over third-man for a six. Two balls later, he sent one over deep midwicket stands. Narine, on the other hand, was not even troubled by Nortje’s pace, flat-batting the South African into the crowd. When it looked like he was set for a century, Mitchell Marsh broke the partnership sending Narine back for 85 runs. In the next over, Raghuvanshi got out trying to ramp Nortje for 54 runs. At that point, KRR were 176/3 in 13.2 overs.
While Shreyas Iyer got out shortly after, Rinku (26 from 8 balls) and Russell (41 off 19) added 32 runs in ten balls, threatening to take KKR past the record score of 277. However, Ishant delivered a terrific last over to keep KKR to 272/7.
