Kolkata suffers humiliating loss at home: crucial mistake turns the match.

The 21st match of IPL 2025 was played on 8 April at the Eden Gardens between Kolkata Knight Riders and Lucknow Super Giants. KKR’s team chased a target of 239 runs, scoring 234 runs in 20 overs and Lucknow registered a stunning victory by 4 runs.

Kolkata made a great start in the run chase. The team lost one wicket in the powerplay but scored 90 runs. Despite such a good start, where did KKR miss, due to which he had to face defeat. Let us tell you.

Kolkata’s middle order batsman flop

Kolkata Knight Riders’ middle order batsmen flopped badly in Run Chase against Lucknow Super Giants. Soon after the powerplay, Sunil Naren was out, who scored 30 off 13 balls at a strike rate of 230.77. After this Venkatesh Iyer and captain Ajinkya Rahane handled the innings and shared a 71 -run partnership for the third wicket.

Rahane was dismissed against Shardul Thakur by scoring 61 runs in 35 balls and KKR got a third blow on a score of 162. After this, the team needed a big partnership. But Ramandeep Singh (1), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (5) lost wickets on a single digit score.

Venkatesh Iyer was dismissed by Akash Deep after scoring 45 runs in 29 balls in the 16th over. After which in the very next over, Andre Russell (7) became the victim of Shardul Thakur. The poor batting of the middle order batsmen caused the defeat of Kolkata Knight Riders.

Rinku Singh remained unbeaten on 38 runs till the end, but could not win the team. He hit two fours and a six off the last three balls of the last over. Akash Deep and Shardul Thakur took 2-2 wickets for Lucknow Super Giants. At the same time, 1-1 wickets were included in the names of Avesh Khan, Digvesh Singh and Ravi Bishnoi.