Kolkata Knight Riders 235 for 6 win by 98 runs over Lucknow Super Giants 137
LSG had a good spell between the 14th and 18th overs, when they conceded just 45 for the loss of three wickets. Thanks to Narine, Salt and Raghuvanshi, with whom Narine shared a 79-run partnership, KKR were on course for a mammoth total. But the slight slowdown may have given LSG a foot in the door.
Ramandeep pushed the total back into mammoth territory in spectacular style. He took a two in front of square leg to open the innings, hit a six over cow corner on the second ball, smashed one over long-on on the fourth, then slammed a four over short third and then smashed a full toss over midwicket to end the innings. To recap, he went 2, 6, 1, 6, 4, 6.
As if scoring at a strike rate of over 400 wasn't impressive enough, he also took one of the catches of the season to get rid of Arshin Kulkarni. Racing towards the boundary from point, he kept his eye on a leading edge that had gone high in the air and made a spectacular leap to get his hands on a ball that did not seem to cross his trajectory. He later took another catch at deep point to dismiss Rahul, the other LSG opener.