In the 54th match of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders gave a crushing 98-run defeat to Lucknow Super Giants on the basis of Sunil Narine's brilliant all-round performance. With this big win, Kolkata has come on top in the points table. This is Lucknow's biggest defeat in IPL so far.

Kolkata played Raghuvanshi as impact player in this match and Lucknow played Arshin Kulkarni in place of Yash. In this match, Mohsin Khan got injured while trying to catch Narayan. In such a situation, bowler Yudhveer Singh came in his place as a concussion substitute.

Batting first, Kolkata scored 235 runs losing 6 wickets in 20 overs. For the team, the maximum runs of 81 (39) came from the bat of Sunil Narayan. In this innings he hit 6 fours and 7 sixes. Phil Salt played an inning of 32(14) runs. Salt hit 5 fours and one six in his innings.

Narayan and Salt made a partnership of 61 (26) runs for the first wicket. Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 32(26) runs. In this innings he hit 3 fours and one six. Narayan and Raghuvanshi added 79 (46) runs for the second wicket. In the end, Ramandeep Singh played an unbeaten inning of 25 runs in 6 balls with the help of one four and 3 sixes. Naveen-ul-Haq was successful in taking maximum 3 wickets for Lucknow. Ravi Bishnoi, Yash Thakur and Yudhveer took one wicket each.

Chasing the target, Lucknow team was all out on the score of 137 in 16.1 overs. Marcus Stoinis played an inning of 36 runs in 21 balls with the help of 4 fours and 2 sixes. KL Rahul contributed 25 runs in 21 balls with the help of 3 fours. Stoinis and Rahul made a partnership of 50 (33) runs for the second wicket. Harshit Rana and Varun Chakraborty took maximum 3-3 wickets for Kolkata. Andre Russell took 2 wickets. Narayan and Mitchell Starc took one wicket each.