Half-centuries from Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi arrange Kolkata Knight Riders’ 10-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad within the IPL 2021 match on the M.A.Chidambaram Stadium on Sunday.
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Rana (80 off 56) and Tripathi (53 off 29) powered KKR to 187 for six in 20 overs, earlier than Manish Pandey (61* off 44) and Jonny Bairstow (55 off 40) took SRH shut. However, they couldn’t fairly end the steep chase.
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SRH wanted David Warner to fireplace within the chase however that didn’t occur. He was dropped on 0 by Pat Cummins off Harbhajan Singh however couldn’t make use of the life, nicking a wonderful supply from Prasidh Krishna to the keeper within the second over. In the subsequent over, Wriddhiman Saha chopped Shakib Al Hasan onto the stumps to go away them 10 for two.
SRH wanted a partnership to remain within the recreation they usually received that with Jonny Bairstow and Manish Pandey settling down after which counter attacking. Hyderabad added solely 35 within the Power Play however switched gears, citing their 100 in 12 overs. Bairstow was main the onslaught, having crossed his half-century.
With the partnership rising, KKR turned to Pat Cummins for the breakthrough and he didn’t disappoint. He received Bairstow reducing to level leaving SRH 102 for 3 in 13 overs.
SRH despatched Mohammad Nabi up the order to speed up however he managed solely 14 off 11 earlier than falling to Prasidh Krishna. SRH wanted 57 from the ultimate 4 overs, which was a bit too steep. Vijay Shankar fell for 11 off 7, and Abdul Samad hit Pat Cummins for 2 unimaginable sixes within the penultimate over to carry it right down to 22 off the ultimate over.
However, Andre Russell did the job for KKR within the ultimate over.
Earlier, Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) took 5 wickets within the final 5 overs and conceded simply 42 runs however Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) received 187/6.
KKR seemed set for a complete effectively above the 200-run mark when their high order batsmen Nitish Rana (80), Rahul Tripathi (53) and Shubman Gill (15) took on the SRH bowlers. However, SRH’s Afghanistan duo Rashid Khan (2/24) and Mohammad Nabi (2/32) led the best way within the dying overs.
Rana and Gill put up a 53-run opening partnership off 42 balls earlier than the latter fell to Rashid. However, Rahul Tripathi then got here in and scored a belligerent 53 off 29 balls, smashing 5 fours and two sixes. Tripathi put up 93 runs off simply 50 balls for the second wicket with Rana.
Tripathi finally fell to T Natarajan and with the group cruising at 146/2 within the sixteenth over, KKR despatched in Andre Russell forward of Shakib Al Hasan. However, Russell ended up falling for simply 5 runs off as many balls to Rashid after which Nabi dismissed Rana and KKR captain Eoin Morgan off consecutive deliveries within the 18th over.
Dinesh Karthik then scored 22 runs off 9 balls to get KKR near the 190-run mark whereas Shakib fell to Bhuvneshwar Kumar off the final ball of the innings.
(With IANS inputs)
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