KKR vs KXIP: Rain not even stopped, Gail storm, Punjab beat KKR by 9 wickets

Kings XI Punjab defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets in the 18th match of IPL 2018 by Chris Gayle and KL Rahul's blistering half-century. Chris Gayle scored an unbeaten 62 in 38 balls

IPL 2018: Kings XI Punjab defeated Kolkata Knight Riders by 9 wickets in the 18th match of IPL 2018 with Chris Gayle and KL Rahul's impressive half-century. Chris Gayle played an unbeaten 62 in 38 balls. Gayle hit six sixes and five boundaries in his innings. At the same time, Rahul Dravid played a blistering innings of 60 runs in 27 balls. Rahul made 9 fours and two sixes in his innings.

Along with this, Gayle has become the sixth batsman in the season to break the record of Andre Russell. Gayle has so far scored 21 sixes in this season. Earlier, Russell was at number one with 19 sixes. With this record, the Orange Cap also got its name in the season-11 with 229 runs.

Gayle's third consecutive half century in IPL season 11, while Rahul has so far scored two fifties. Apart from this, Mayant Agarwal scored an unbeaten 2 in 2 balls. This is the fourth win in the Kings XI Punjab Tournament, while KKR have lost 4 out of 6 matches played so far.

In this rain interrupted match, KKR got a target of 125 runs in 13 overs. Kings XI's innings had to stop the match due to rain during 8.2 overs but till then the Punjab team had scored 96 runs without losing any wicket.

Earlier, the KKR team scored 191 runs in 7 overs losing 20 wickets in 20 overs. For the KKR, opener Chris Lynn scored a remarkable 74 in 41 balls. Lynn included 6 hits and 4 sixes in his innings. Apart from Lynn, Dinesh Karthik, captain of the team, scored 43 runs in a superb innings. Karthik brought in 6 innings in his innings.

Opener Sunil Narine was not able to do anything special in the match against today, and only after making a single run. Sunil was caught by Mujibur Rahman at Karun Nair's hands.

Robin Uthappa contributed with Lynn's excellent support and contributed 34 runs for the team. Andre Russell could only make 10 runs in the sixth position. Russell put two fours in his innings. Shubhaman Gill made an unbeaten 10 runs.

Earlier, Kings XI Punjab captain R Ashwin invited the batting first to KKR by winning the toss.

Barindra Saran proved to be the most expensive bowler from the Kings. Saran got two wickets in his four overs spell with 50 runs. Apart from Bairender, Andrew Ti also picked up two wickets. Mushfiqur Rahman and captain Ashwin got one wicket each.