IPL 2019, KKR vs DC: Delhi beat Kolkata by 7 wickets

P Krishna to S Dhawan, Good shot but for no runs! 4 dots in a row, this is turning out to be a good first over. Dhawan makes room and there is width on offer outside off. Shikhar slaps it but straight to point.

P Krishna to S Dhawan, A good short ball on the body of Dhawan. He may have been a little surprised by it as he defends it awkwardly.

P Krishna to S Dhawan, Just behind a driving length around off, Dhawan throws his bat at it but can't get past cover point.

P Krishna to S Dhawan, Good delivery! From around the wicket, Krishna comes running in and lands it around off. It comes back in. Dhawan looks to play at it with soft hands but ends up getting an inside edge to short fine leg.

P Krishna to P Shaw, Delhi are underway! Slightly short and on the body, Shaw works it through square leg. The fielder is in the deep and a single is taken.

We are back for the chase! The Delhi openers, Prithvi Shaw and Shikhar Dhawan walk out to the middle. The former scored a 99 in the previous fixture between the two. Something similar is what Delhi would love. Kolkata on the other hand, would like a few early wickets. Prasidh Krishna to start the proceedings for them. Here we go...

179 to win then. Dew present. Do Kolkata have enough? On the flip side, can Delhi's misfiring batting fire? And also, with this unit, a collapse is never far. Stay tuned...

Ishant Sharma is having a chat with Ian Bishop. The Indian fast bowler says he did not expect a wicket maiden to begin with but feels great. Mentions the Test series has given him confidence and he is also working hard which has helped him bowl well here. He advices his batters to take their time and also with the dew and Narine not playing, he feels Delhi have the advantage.

Delhi bowled well and even in the period where they were not getting wickets, they kept Kolkata reasonably quiet. They leaked some runs towards the latter half of the innings but that is expected. Ishant bowled a wonderful spell of 4-1-21-1 while Axar kept things quiet in the middle. Morris, Rabada and Paul picked up 2 wickets apiece but were on the expensive side.

5 overs left. Andre Russell at the crease. What do you expect? Fireworks. And we got plenty of them. The big Jamaican blazed his way through to a 20-ball 45 but then a smart piece of bowling got him out in the 19th over. A good 11 balls missed. Would those have propelled the home side to 200? Well, if a team can chase down 70-plus in 4 overs, they can do anything, can't they? Nothing much from the other batsmen.

Remember the first ball dismissal of Unmukt Chand by Brett Lee? That Kolkata-Delhi clash of 2013. Today it was Ishant Sharma doing a repeat, taking out Joe Denly. The hosts' top order woes continued and even though Uthappa and Gill added 63 for the second wicket, it came at a slow pace. Gill held one end up and tried to counter-attack but then, was dismissed in the 15th over.

Hmmm... what are Delhi thinking... what are Delhi thinking...179... chaseable... dew setting in. Not too much damage done by Russell in the end. The visitors will take this.

K Paul to K Yadav, A top edge to end the innings. Another slower ball, around middle, Kuldeep looks to pull but gets a top edge which balloons over the keeper. Short fine leg gets across and keeps the batsmen down to a couple. KOLKATA FINISH ON 178/7!

K Paul to K Yadav, Dot ball. Outside off, Kuldeep looks to swing hard but misses.

K Paul to P Chawla, Down the leg side, flicked through mid-wicket for a single.

K Paul to P Chawla, FOUR! Excellent batting! A yorker outside off, Chawla squeezes it behind point and the ball races away!

Kuldeep Yadav time. With the bat.

K Paul to C Brathwaite, OUT! Another catching practice. Slower ball again, on a length, Brathwaite pulls it but without much timing. Straight to Rahul Tewatia at deep mid-wicket.

K Paul to P Chawla, Who wants it? Who wants it? Me! Me! Catch put down. What should have been a catch, turns out to be three runs. A length ball, outside off, Chawla looks to swing hard but is done in by the slower one. Gets a top edge which goes straight up in the air. Rahul Tewatia comes in from long on, Kagiso Rabada charges in from long off and the former puts it down. It goes past Rabada and the batsmen, who had already crossed once, jog across for two more.