Shaw's stunning six fours in an over sets up DC's 7-wicket win over KKR

Opener Prithvi Shaw smashed six fours in the first over in a stunning batting display on his way to a blistering 82 as Delhi Capitals crushed Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in the IPL here on ThursdayChasing 155 for a win Shaw sent all the six legal deliveries from opening bowler Shivam Mavi to the boundary driving punching and sweeping at willMavis first delivery saw Dinesh Karthik diving fulllength to his left to take a fine catch only to find later that it was a wide ball Shaw then sent all the next six balls to the fence one after the otherShaw shared a 132run stand for the first wicket with senior partner Shikhar Dhawan 46 off 47 balls who played second fiddle throughout as the duo annihilated the KKR bowlersShaw was out in the 16th over after facing 41 balls hitting 11 fours and three sixes but by then the match was as good DC chased down the target with 33 overs to spare reaching 156 for 3 in 163 oversThe 21yearold Shaw reached to his fifty off 18 balls in the eighth over his third half century of the season in his seven matchesHe was dropped by Shubman Gill when on 55 off the bowling of Varun Chakravarthy as DC reached the 100run mark in 102 overs without losing a wicketFor KKR lead pacer Pat Cummins finished with excellent figures of 324This was DCs fifth win in seven outings while KKR suffered their fifth loss in as seven gamesEarlier KKR suffered another familiar batting collapse before late fireworks from Andre Russell lifted them to 154 for six after being put in to batKKR were at a decent position at 69 for one in the 10th over but slumped to 82 for five in the 13th before Russell saved them with a 27ball 45 not outRussells blistering innings had two boundaries and four sixesStruggling opener Shubman Gill topscored with a 38ball 43 and his knock was studded with three boundaries and one six but he failed to convert his solid start into a big scoreFor DC Axar Patel and Lalit Yadav were impressive with two wicketsKKR were 45 for one at the end of powerplay overs after Nitish Rana was stumped out for 15 in the fourth over bowled by AxarGill was going strong as he took on Ishant Sharma and Axar by hitting a few boundaries but lost Rahul Tripathi to Marcus Stoinis in the 10th overKKRs familiar batting slump came to the fore as captain Eoin Morgan and Sunil Narine both got out in the space of three balls without opening their accountsLalit who replaced an injured Amit Mishra in the DC playing XI grabbed both the wickets as KKR slumped from 69 for 1 in the 10th over to 75 for 4 in the 11th overMorgan holed out to Steve Smith at longoff while Narine was castled by a quick offbreak from Lalit which disturbed his stumpsGill who is yet to score a half century in seven innings this season went for a big shot off a slower ball from Avesh Khan only to hole out to Smith in the 13th overThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever