Shubman Gill smashed a fine half-century to help Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) post a highly competitive total in the IPL 2021 encounter against Rajasthan Royals (RR).
Shubman Gill stepped up when the Kolkata Knight Riders needed a mature innings, with the competition for a playoffs berth getting intense.
Narine was back to hitting big shots again as he scored 21 runs off 10 deliveries while Rana made 36 off 27.
Rana played an outstanding knock of 37 runs off just 27 deliveries and remained unbeaten while Karthik made 26 runs off 11.
Devdutt Padikkal, Ruturaj Gaikwad, Chetan Sakariya and Nitish Rana have all been handed their respective T20I debuts.
Nitish Rana, Chetan Sakariya, Varun Chakravarthy, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Krishnappa Gowtham have been handed their maiden Team India call-ups.
Both the sides are level on points after winning one out of four with KKR ahead of RR on the table only on net run rate.
Kolkata Knight Riders registered a comfortable 10-run win against Sunrisers Hyderabad in their opening Indian Premier League (IPL 2021) match at Chennai on Sunday.
It takes guts to strike the 1st ball of the game through the off-side for a boundary, let alone executing the same against Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
KKR started their IPL 2021 campaign with a clinical 10-run win over SRH, courtesy some spectacular batting from Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi.