IPL history: Top 5 totals by Kolkata Knight Riders
Kolkata Knight Riders are one of the three teams to have won the IPL more than once. In their long and successful IPL history, they have played many memorable matches and have produced some of the greatest match-winners ever seen in T20 cricket.
Sunil Narine and Kuldeep Yadav are their stars with the ball and their top order has players like Chris Lynn, Dinesh Karthik and Robin Uthappa, with the dangerous Andre Russell in the middle order.
With such a dynamic team, they would have surely dominated the opposition on certain occasions; it goes without saying that they have posted some of the biggest totals in IPL history.
Here are the 5 biggest totals posted by the Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL history.
#5 IPL 2014, KKR vs KXIP - 200/7
The Kolkata Knight Riders took on the Kings XI Punjab on the grandest of stages, the IPL final. Both the teams had worked hard to get to that stage, delivering great performances and registering a few thumping wins along the way.
The Chinnaswamy stadium in Bangalore was bustling with hordes of people waiting to get to their seats even though their home team, RCB, weren't part of the playoffs. The date was 1st June 2014, and KKR skipper Gautam Gambhir won the toss and chose to field.
KXIP lost Virender Sehwag and captain George Bailey early, but Wriddhiman Saha and opener Manan Vohra remained strong. After starting slowly, the duo launched their attack from the 12th over and thrashed the KKR bowlers black and blue.
Saha stayed on even after Vohra's dismissal for 67 and scored an unbeaten hundred as KXIP made 199/4 in their 20 overs. They had scored a whopping 132 runs in their last 9 overs.
KKR's chase started off on a sour note as they lost Orange Cap winner Robin Uthappa early. Manish Pandey consolidated with skipper Gambhir before the latter was dismissed soon after the powerplay.
Pandey and Yusuf Pathan then built a great partnership and got the team to a good position before Pathan got dismissed. But Pandey remained focused on the job at hand even as wickets kept falling around him. He got out when he was on 95, with the team needing 21 runs to win in the last 3 overs.
KKR won in dramatic fashion after Piyush Chawla hit a couple of boundaries towards the end, taking the team score to 200/7 in 19.3 overs. This was their 5th highest total in IPL history.