Kolkata Knight Riders suffered a 3-wicket loss to Rajasthan Royals in an IPL-12 match played at Kolkata's Eden Gardens ground on Thursday. Despite this defeat, the KKR team completed a century to score sixes in the current season of the IPL.
KKR has become the first team to touch 100 sixes in the 12th season of IPL. Kings XI Punjab on second place after KKR, while teams from Royal Challengers Bangalore and Mumbai Indians are jointly third.
Most IPL teams in IPL 12-
> Kolkata Knight Riders - 109 Sixes
> Kings XI Punjab - 83 Sixes
> Royal Challengers Bangalore / Mumbai Indians - 74 Sixes
One of the biggest reasons for the most number of sixes in the six-wicket race in Kolkata is Andre Russell. Let's tell that Kolkata's Siksar King Andre Russell has hit 42 sixes alone. Besides them, Nitish Rana (18), Chris Lynn (13), Dinesh Karthik (12) and Sunil Narine (9) were the other notable contributors.
Top 5 players to hit most sixes in IPL 12
> Andre Russell - 42 sixes
> Chris Gayle - 32 sixes
> AB de Villiers - 25 sixes
> David Warner - 19 Sixes
> Kieron Pollard - 18 Sixes
In the match played on Thursday, Rajasthan's team defeated Kolkata by three wickets. Calcutta batted first before batting first, with captain Dinesh Karthik (97 not out) made the best score of 175 for six wickets, which Rajasthan won by 7 wickets in 19.2 overs. In 11 matches of pre-champions Rajasthan It is the fourth win and it is 7th with 8 points. With this win Rajasthan have the hopes of reaching the playoffs. At the same time, it is 7th and sixth consecutive defeat in 11 matches of the champions Kolkata. The team is at number eight with 8 points.
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