New Delhi, Kolkata Knight Riders team defeated Delhi Capitals by 106 runs. In this match, the bowlers and batsmen performed strongly for KKR. KKR team won the toss and decided to bat first, which proved to be right. KKR team scored 272 runs, which is the second highest score in the history of IPL. After this, Delhi Capitals was all out for 166 runs and the Delhi team had to lose the match by 106 runs. This is the first time in the history of IPL that KKR team has won all the first three matches of the season. Before Delhi, KKR had defeated RCB and Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Pant-Stubbs scored half-centuries
The Delhi Capitals team, which came out to chase a mountain-like score, had a very bad start. When David Warner and Prithvi Shaw could not play big innings. Warner scored 18 runs and Shaw scored 10 runs. After this Mitchell Marsh and Abhishek Porel returned to the pavilion without opening the account. Due to this, Delhi's innings seemed to be coming to an end soon. But after this captain Rishabh Pant and Tristan Stubbs took the responsibility of scoring runs. Pant scored 55 runs and Stubbs scored 54 runs. But these players could not make their team win. As soon as these two were out, Delhi team's innings fell apart like a pack of cards and the lower order batsmen could not show anything special.

Varun took three wickets for Kolkata Knight Riders
Varun Chakraborty and Vaibhav Arora took 3 wickets each. Mitchell Starc took two wickets in his name. Starc took his first wicket in IPL 2024 in this match. Andre Russell and Sunil Narine took 1-1 wicket. Vaibhav Arora was the most economical. He took 3 wickets for 27 runs in 4 overs.

Sunil Narine batted explosively
Sunil Narine batted in a explosive manner against Delhi Capitals. He scored 85 runs in just 39 balls, which included 7 fours and 7 sixes. He laid the foundation for the KKR team to score big. Apart from him Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 54 runs. Andre Russell contributed 41 runs. In the end Rinku Singh hit some big strokes. He scored 26 runs in just 8 balls, in which he hit 1 four and three sixes. Captain Shreyas Iyer gave 18 runs. It was because of these batsmen that KKR team was able to score 272 runs. Delhi Capitals bowlers could not perform well. Enrique Norkhia took the most wickets for the team. He took three wickets. But he proved to be very expensive.