Knight Riders on their way out after a Brevis special at the Eden Gardens

Thirty runs in one over from Vaibhav Arora was all it took Chennai Super Kings to stage a coup, beating Kolkata Knight Riders by two wickets after looking down and out at 60/5.

- Somshuvra Laha

KOLKATA:

Dewald Brevis orchestrated this turnaround, blasting 52 in 25 balls and leaving MS Dhoni with a required run rate of 6.62. Clobbering a six off Andre Russell, he guided the win with two balls to spare, consigning KKR to another frustrating defeat at Eden Gardens that nearly put them on the brink in the race to the IPL playoffs.

Till the 11th over of the chase, KKR seemed to have the match in their grasp. CSK were keeping up with the asking rate thanks to Urvil Patel's 11-ball 31 but having lost half the side and with Dhoni not exactly in blistering hitting form, a comprehensive win for KKR was on the cards. Brevis, however, had other ideas.

Angkrish Raghuvanshi probably didn't judge a catch too well at long-on but once the ball had cleared the boundary, Brevis went all out. Two fours followed, and then two sixes—both off low full tosses—as Brevis punished Arora's ordinary bowling. Raising his fifty with a boundary through extra cover, Brevis forced KKR to bring Sunil Narine back.