Match Coverage

Narine carrom ball still potent
The defending champions tested at home, Kings XI's attack exposed, Maxwell against spin, Vijay's wasted starts, and Narine's potent carrom ball. ESPNcricinfo presents five talking points from Eden Gardens
The Narine DIY method
Plays of the Day from the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Kings XI Punjab
Narine and Russell lift KKR to No.1
Knight Riders go top with one-wicket win
Kolkata Knight went to the top of the points table with the first one-wicket win in IPL history, off the penultimate ball against Kings XI Punjab
Batting promotion a tactical move - Chawla
Piyush Chawla said the decision to promote him to No. 4 was tactical, so Knight Riders could have a left-hand batsman to upset the rhythm of Daredevils' legspinners

Awesome Andre

197.93

Andre Russell's strike rate in this IPL - the highest for any batsman with at least 250 runs in a season.

Runs conceded Axar Patel in his third over - his most expensive in the IPL. He had conceded only 4 runs from his first-two.

19/2

KKR's score in overs No. 6 to 10; they had scored 55 for the loss one wicket in the first five.

Balls taken by KKR for their first-fifty runs; this was the second-fastest fifty by them at the Eden Gardens.

Wickets taken by Sunil Narine against KXIP - the most he has taken against any team in T20s.

Runs off Brad Hogg's third over (including a bye) - equal the highest scored off an over from any KKR spinner at the Eden Gardens.

193

Wickets Sunil Narine has taken in T20s - the second-most by any player from West Indies. Only Dwayne Bravo (234 wkts) is ahead of him.

4.66

Sunil Narine's eco in 6 overs in the Powerplays; only Marchant de Lange, eco of 2.5, has done better this season.

4-0

KKR's record against KXIP in the last-four games between the teams. The last they lost to KXIP was in 2014, in Abu Dhabi.