Both teams have two attacking batsmen Sunil Narine of Kolkata Knight Riders, and Jos Buttler of Rajasthan Royals are the two attacking batsmen who have scored the most runs. Due to their performance, the two teams scored the most runs, but the other batsmen did not score more runs. However, batsmen of Rajasthan Royals team were more aggressive due to which they won in this match. Rajasthan Royals team won by two wickets only, despite creating pressure from the bowling side in the last over, Rajasthan Royals team could not be stopped.
I don't imagine any team can be defeated even after giving a huge target of 224 runs. But we enjoyed perhaps the most exciting match of this year's IPL.
With the help of Narine's 109 runs, the Kolkata team accumulated a huge total of 223 runs. While Rajasthan Royals' Boult and Avesh Khan bowled somewhat under control, other bowlers provided plenty of runs. On the other hand, the batsmen of Rajasthan were batting aggressively from the beginning of the innings. However, Kolkata lost the match by 15-19 overs due to their poor bowling. Rajasthan Royals collected 87 runs in these 5 overs. Kolkata bowlers could have won the match if they could have done some controlled bowling.
I agree with you. Between the 15th and 19th overs, the match was completely under the control of Rajasthan Royals. And in the last over they needed just 9 runs to win. An interesting point is that the Kolkata captain used 5 of his bowlers in the 15th-19th overs. And not a single bowler could bowl under control. Each gave more than 16 runs.
After the win in this match, Rajasthan could strengthen their position at the top of the table. Rajasthan is now 4 points ahead of second placed Kolkata in the table. We may see the position of teams from second to fourth in the table change quite quickly. Kolkata, Chennai and Hyderabad each won 4 out of 6 matches and lost 2.