This, though, is the KKR gameplan regardless of the venue they’re playing at because they keep using Sunil Narine at the top, giving him a licence to play those 30 off 10 cameos. He overachieved, which was fitting on his 500th T20, making 47 off 22. Phil Salt did plenty of damage too. He very nearly didn’t play this IPL. At the end of the powerplay, KKR had 85 for 0. They’d taken down almost 50% of their target in just 30% of the overs with 100% of their wickets still in hand.
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