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    "title": "Kolkata Knight Riders canter to 71-run win over Delhi Daredevils",
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    "excerpt": "Kolkata, April 16 - Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), riding on Nitish Rana and Andre Russell's heroics, snapped a two-game losing streak in style to register a 71-run victory over Gautam Gambhir's Delhi Daredevils in a lopsided Indian Premier League (IPL) clash",
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    "editor1": "<p>Kolkata, April 16 -&nbsp;Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR), riding on Nitish Rana and Andre Russell&#39;s heroics, snapped a two-game losing streak in style to register a 71-run victory over Gautam Gambhir&#39;s Delhi Daredevils in a lopsided Indian Premier League (IPL) clash at the Eden Gardens here on Monday.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nPut in by their celebrated former captain Gambhir, KKR saw in-form Rana smash a 35-ball 59 with Russell hitting a 12-ball 44, which included six sixes off Mohammed Shami, to ensure Glenn Maxwell&#39;s 22-ball 47 and Rishabh Pant&#39;s 26-ball 43 went in vain.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<img alt=\"kuldeep yadav\" src=\"https:\/\/img.cricketnmore.com\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Kuldeep-Yadav1-lg.jpg\" style=\"height:450px; width:750px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Mystery spinner Sunil Narine (3\/18) and chinaman Kuldeep Yadav (3\/32) were the pick of the bowlers for the hosts.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nDelhi were reduced to 24\/3 inside the first three overs with opener Jason Roy, who hit an unbeaten 53-ball 91 in the last match but now only managed 1, Shreyas Iyer (4) and skipper Gambhir (8) back in the hut.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nLeg-spinner Piyush Chawla (1\/16) got Roy&#39;s back in the last ball of the innings&#39; first over with a slider down the leg side which the England batsman missed and went down the wicket for skipper Dinesh Karthik to effect a stumping.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-series\/indian-premier-league-2018\">Latest IPL 2018 NEWS<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\"page-break-after:always\"><span style=\"display:none\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p>In the next over, Rana caught Iyer at first slip off Russell&#39;s bowling while the big wicket of Gambhir -- who is KKR&#39;s most successful captain winning two IPLs with them -- fell to U-19 World Cup winner Shivam Mavi (1\/14).<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nPant and Maxwell then associated for a 62-run stand for the fourth wicket before the former holed out to Chawla at deep midwicket off Yadav.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nFrom there on, it was all downhill for Delhi as they lost wickets in a hurry.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nEarlier, Rana cracked a fine half century while Russell blasted a 12-ball 44 to propel KKR to 200\/9 in 20 overs.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nHe played a gem of an innings, selecting his shots with aplomb, as he hit five fours and four sixes to set up KKR&#39;s onslaught and allow Russell, who was dropped on 7 by Roy, to go for the big shots from the word go. Rana took 35 balls for his 59.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\n<img alt=\"russell\" src=\"https:\/\/img.cricketnmore.com\/uploads\/2018\/04\/A-Russell2.jpg\" style=\"height:563px; width:750px\" \/><\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Russell hit six sixes in a three-over period where the hosts bludgeoned 54 runs before leg-spinner Rahul Tewatia (3\/18) put a lid on the proceedings by taking three wickets in the last overs and conceding just one run.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nRana and Russell stitched together a 61-run partnership in just 22 balls for the fifth wicket.<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nBrief scores: Kolkata Knight Riders 200\/9 (Nitish Rana 59, Andre Russell 41; Rahul Tewatia 3\/18) beat Delhi Daredevils (129 all out (Glenn Maxwell 47, Rishabh Pant 43; Sunil Narine 3\/18, Kuldeep Yadav 3\/32)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>IANS<\/p>\r\n",
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