Exciting matches are happening in IPL 2023. In the 47th match of the season on Thursday, Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 5 runs in a thrilling manner. Varun Chakravarthy became the hero of this victory, who successfully defended 9 runs in the 20th over.

Varun dismissed Abdul –

It may be noted that Varun Chakraborty conceded 2 runs in the first two balls of the over and dismissed set batsman Abdul Samad on the third ball for a personal score of 21 to turn the match in favor of KKR.

After this, he gave only 1 run in the next three balls and gave his team a thrilling victory. Six runs were needed off the last ball and he bowled a dot ball brilliantly. However, this is not the first time that a spinner has defended a score in the last over.

Before Varun in the history of IPL, star spinner Sunil Narine has done this amazing 4 times for Kolkata. Piyush Chawla‘s name is on the second number in this list. He has defended the score in the last over 3 times. After this, Chris Gayle, Shakib-al-Hasan, Kuldeep Yadav defended the score once each for the KKR team and gave a thrilling victory in the last over.

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IPL 2023: Only win is needed to reach the playoffs –

Let us tell you that Kolkata has kept alive the hope of reaching its playoffs with this win. KKR is 8th in the points table with 4 wins and 6 losses in 10 matches. He has got 8 points. To reach the playoffs, KKR will have to win the remaining matches. Along with this, our net run rate will also have to be improved.