Kolkata Knight Riders pulled off an exhilarating five-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2023 on the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium right here on Thursday.
It all boiled all the way down to the final over when Sunrisers wanted 9 runs to win with Abdul Samad and Bhuvneshwar Kumar on the crease.
But Varun Chakravarthy bowled a splendid over conceding simply three runs apart from dismissing the damaging Samad.
When captain Aiden Markram and Heinrich Klaasen strung a partnership of 70 runs for the fifth wicket off 47 balls, Sunrisers appeared heading in the right direction. Both, nonetheless, departed in fast succession to make the rating learn 145 for six in 16.5 overs. Pressure was again on the house staff.
It was a disciplined bowling effort within the slog overs which noticed Sunrisers rating solely 32 runs within the final 5 overs and lose three wickets. This ultimately proved to be pricey.
Earlier, Knight Riders, electing to bat, posted an honest 171 for 9 in 20 overs due to helpful contributions from the captain Nitish Rana, southpaw Rinku and the big-hitting Andre Russell.
Left-arm pacer Marco Jansen’s two wickets within the second over of the innings dented the Knight Riders’ hopes of a breezy begin. Rahmanullah Gurbaz holed out for a primary ball duck and Venkatesh Iyer was caught behind off an tried hook.
In the fifth over, pacer Kartik Tyagi noticed the damaging Jason Roy go for the slog solely to top-edge and get caught to scale back Knight Riders to 35 for 3.
The early setbacks meant it misplaced three wickets within the PowerPlay.
Rana appeared good, hitting Tyagi for a 4 and two pull photographs which cleared the fence within the tenth over. He placed on 61 runs off 40 balls for the fourth wicket with Rinku.
However, Markram pulled off an excellent, diving catch off his personal bowling. He ran all the best way to the sting of the 30-yard circle to latch on to a mistimed lofted shot from his counterpar within the twelfth over.
In the final 5 overs, Sunrisers conceded solely 42 runs and picked 4 wickets. Left-arm pacer Natarajan bowled a superb ultimate over conceding solely three runs apart from forcing Rinku to drag to deep mid-wicket the place Samad accomplished an excellent diving catch.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com