- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR17.3 taken at long-off. Afghan spin pulling KKR back here. Slow, length, just outside off. Rana has cleared the front leg to swing into the leg side. Ends up slicing an easy one for long-off. A good innings from Rana, looked tired by the end though and tapered off a little 160/46.6 Enter Rashid. Exit Gill. There's the breakthrough for SRH. Wrong'un from Rashid, on a length and breaking in. Gill goes for a roundhouse swipe, loses his balance, misses the sweep altogether. Rashid nails off stump 53/115.2 held on the second attempt. Natarajan gets Tripathi with a slower ball. Cuts away from a leg stump line. He's down for the slog sweep but that ends up a slice off the low part of the bat. Floats to Saha's left and behind him. It pops out of the gloves as he turns but he's alert to where it's headed and holds on 146/216.2 Pandey holds low to his right. Expertly done, as always. Rashid was kept for Russell, and he has the stick on him yet again. This was full and it was drilled hard and flat to long-on's left. Pandey ended up over-running it, but his eyes tracked it all the way and he managed to twist to go to his right and hold on after a decent amount of sprinting to his left 157/317.4 taken at deep backward square! Intelligent grab there from Samad, who had to take a few steps backward and to his left. Length ball slanted into leg stump, got the sweep out but not a lot of elevation on that. Samad takes it with a well timed jump and a reverse cup 160/519.6 taken by midwicket running back. Slower ball across off stump at a length. Looks for the slog, is deceived and ends up slicing that. Samad runs to his left, stretches his hands out and holds on. That is not easy to do 187/6Extras7 (w 7)TOTAL187/6 (20 Overs, RR: 9.35)Fall of wickets: 1-53 (Shubman Gill, 6.6 ov), 2-146 (Rahul Tripathi, 15.2 ov), 3-157 (Andre Russell, 16.2 ov), 4-160 (Nitish Rana, 17.3 ov), 5-160 (Eoin Morgan, 17.4 ov), 6-187 (Shakib Al Hasan, 19.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB B Kumar 4 0 45 1 11.25 10 6 2 1 0 Sandeep Sharma 3 0 35 0 11.66 5 5 1 0 0 T Natarajan 4 0 37 1 9.25 7 3 2 1 0 Mohammad Nabi 4 0 32 2 8.00 9 2 2 0 0 Rashid Khan 4 0 24 2 6.00 10 1 0 1 0 V Shankar 1 0 14 0 14.00 0 1 1 0 0
Player of the Match
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- BATSMENRBM4s6sSR2.1 chopped onto leg stump! Short of a length and skidding in with the angle, in the corridor. Saha cuts for one that would've turned more, but Shakib thrives on that. And he has a wicket first ball for his new team, against his former team 10/21.3 gets him with a sharp one. Prasidh has slammed this back of a length, rising with the angle across leg stump. Warner is cramped and looks to drop that into the leg side, but it's taken the outside edge and carried nicely 10/112.6 short, wide, slashed straight into the lap of backward point. Bairstow creates more swinging room, but can't clear the infielder. Straightforward catch for Rana and that wicket exposes Sunrisers' fragile middle order 102/315.6 caught at cover, change of pace does the trick. Completely took the pace off that one did Prasidh, this was at 91.2 kph, full on a fourth stump line. Nabi sticks to the tried and tested method of backing away and freeing his arms, but only manages to squirt it high off a leading edge, beaten by the lack of pace. 131/417.6 caught at cover. Dre has really got that angle from around the wicket working for him, and Shankar couldn't quite get properly underneath this as he tried to go over long-off. Ends up with a leading edge that loops up for a simple catch. 150/5Extras7 (b 1, lb 1, w 5)TOTAL177/5 (20 Overs, RR: 8.85)Fall of wickets: 1-10 (David Warner, 1.3 ov), 2-10 (Wriddhiman Saha, 2.1 ov), 3-102 (Jonny Bairstow, 12.6 ov), 4-131 (Mohammad Nabi, 15.6 ov), 5-150 (Vijay Shankar, 17.6 ov)
Bowling O M R W Econ 0s 4s 6s WD NB Harbhajan Singh 1 0 8 0 8.00 3 0 1 0 0 M Prasidh Krishna 4 0 35 2 8.75 11 4 0 4 0 Shakib Al Hasan 4 0 34 1 8.50 8 1 3 0 0 PJ Cummins 4 0 30 1 7.50 9 1 2 0 0 AD Russell 3 0 32 1 10.66 5 2 2 1 0 CV Varun 4 0 36 0 9.00 6 1 2 0 0
Match Details
Toss
Sunrisers Hyderabad , elected to field first
Player Of The Match
Season
Match days
11 April 2021 - night match (20-over match)
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Sunrisers Hyderabad 0
Match Notes
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 50 runs, 0 wicket)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 50 runs in 5.4 overs (34 balls), Extras 0
- 1st Wicket: 50 runs in 34 balls (N Rana 36, Shubman Gill 14, Ex 0)
- Over 8.1: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Batting), Umpire - KN Ananthapadmanabhan, Batsman - N Rana (Upheld)
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 69/1 in 9.0 overs (N Rana 42, RA Tripathi 12)
- N Rana: 50 off 37 balls (8 x 4, 1 x 6)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 100 runs in 11.3 overs (69 balls), Extras 0
- 2nd Wicket: 50 runs in 27 balls (N Rana 25, RA Tripathi 25, Ex 0)
- Strategic Timeout: Kolkata Knight Riders - 126/1 in 14.0 overs (N Rana 72, RA Tripathi 39)
- RA Tripathi: 50 off 28 balls (5 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Kolkata Knight Riders: 150 runs in 15.4 overs (94 balls), Extras 0
- Innings Break: Kolkata Knight Riders - 187/6 in 20.0 overs (KD Karthik 22)
- Powerplay 1: Overs 0.1 - 6.0 (Mandatory - 35 runs, 2 wickets)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 50 runs in 7.3 overs (45 balls), Extras 0
- 3rd Wicket: 50 runs in 35 balls (MK Pandey 20, JM Bairstow 30, Ex 0)
- Strategic Timeout: Sunrisers Hyderabad - 69/2 in 9.0 overs (MK Pandey 23, JM Bairstow 36)
- JM Bairstow: 50 off 32 balls (5 x 4, 3 x 6)
- Over 11.2: Review by Kolkata Knight Riders (Bowling), Umpire - Nitin Menon, Batsman - JM Bairstow (Struck down)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 100 runs in 11.6 overs (72 balls), Extras 2
- Strategic Timeout: Sunrisers Hyderabad - 126/3 in 15.4 overs (MK Pandey 47, Mohammad Nabi 10)
- MK Pandey: 50 off 37 balls (2 x 4, 2 x 6)
- Sunrisers Hyderabad: 150 runs in 17.4 overs (106 balls), Extras 7
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