SRH vs KKR, IPL 2021 HIGHLIGHTS: Kolkata Beat Sunrisers By 10 Runs, 100th Win For KKR
Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad lock horns in their openeing matches. The head-to-head analysis of KKR vs SRH favors the team from Bengal as they have won 12 out of 19 matches played so far between the two franchisees.
Well, that's it from us here today. Hope you enjoyed the match today just like we did. Nitish Rana's 80 and Prasidh Krishna's four wickets sealing the deal for KKR in their first match. But plenty of positives to take ahead for SRH. Rashid Khan's bowling, Manish Pandey's resilliance and Abdul Samad's arrival. VVS Laxman will take notes from todays match and better the team's performance the next time.
This takes us to the closure of match 3!
Match 4, IPL: Punjab Kings vs Rajasthan Royals, 7:30 PM IST, 12 Apri 2021.
Good opening win for KKR!
SRH couldn't score quickly at the end of the 2nd innings. Abdul Samad perhaps could have come ahead of Mohammed Nabi and Vijay Shankar.
Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 10 runs. Manish Pandey was the lone warrior with Bairstow in the chase.
19 of 3 balls! Highly Improbable!
With 22 required off 6 balls, it's anybody's game. Abdul Samad on strike and Russell with the ball!
Abdul Samad smashes two big sixes!
Just six runs and a wicket of Vijay Shankar in the 18th over!
38 required now of two overs!
The leggie has performed as per expectations before going for a big six.
SRH need 44 from last three overs!
Match is tilting more so in favour of KKR. SRH missing some power hitters in the end.
Mohammed Nabi out after scoring 14 (11)
Score - 134/4 (16.2)
Match enters an interesting phase as 70 runs are required in the last 30 balls.
Pandey still at the crease, but very less power hitting apart from him.
SRH at 113/3 after 14 overs of play.
Bairstow back in the hut but Manish Pandey still among the mix.
Bairstow - 55(40)
Pat Cummins picks up the BIG wicket of Jonny Bairstow!
Big six for Bairstow off Varun Chakravarty's bowling!
After 10 overs:
SRH - 77/2
Bairstow averaged 73 in the ODI series against India. He has not come out of that form it looks like.
After 8 overs, SRH - 60/2
Jonny Bairstow continues his good form. Hits 10 runs off first three balls of Andre Russell.
Andre Russell brought back in the attack after a steady period of four overs for SRH.
SRH Score: 13/2 (3 Overs)
Both the openers back in the hut! Warner and Saha both back in the pavillion.
Prasidh Krishna picks up the priced wicket of David Warner in the second over of the match!
Second innings begins well for SRH. eight runs of the first over!
Bhuvaneshwar Kumar goes for 45 runs in his four overs and picking up just one wicket.
A six and a four to open the final over for Dinesh Karthik!
Mohammed Nabi picked up the priced wicket of Nitish Rana!
Rana - 80 (55)
Russell out for 5!
Brilliant catch by Manish Pandey!
Andre Russell is at the crease and scores a boundary of the first ball!
Rahul Tripathi goes after scoring a well-made fifty. He did not allow the scoring rate to go down after first wicket.
KKR look rock-solid and look like they can get close to 200.
Nitish Rana and Tripathi still at the crease.
Last 5 overs: 57 runs!
KKR bring up their 100 in the 12th over with a big six! Also 50 partnership up between Rana and Tripathi.
Nitish Rana on absolute fire!
Second six on the bowling of Natarajan
Kolkata Knight Riders at 83/1 after 10 overs.
Nitish Rana - 50 (37)
Rahul Tripathi - 19 (11)
What a ball by Rashid Khan to dismiss Shubhman Gill! A googly that would make Shane Warne proud!
KKR - 53/1 (7 OVERS)
Kolkata's score is 50/0 after six overs.
Powerplay, dune and dusted
Natarajan to Gill. First Ball.
Beautiful SIX over the head of Natarajan. "Silky smooth six" as per Danny Morrison
A hat-trick of fours for Nitish Rana against Sandeep Sharma!
Nitish Rana being offered a lot of room outside the off-stump.
Back-to-back boundaries for the young batsman!
Two overs gone, score is 13 for no loss, KKR.
After conceeding a four on the firts bal, Bhuvi came back well with five dot balls.
Score: SRH - 4/0 (1 over)
Here we go! What a start!
Third match. First ball. Bhuvaneshwar Kumar To Nitish Rana. Four!
The Turbanator is taking the field to play a professional cricket match after 699 days, will he overcome his nerves?
Harbhajan Singh included in the KKR eleven even after SRH not having a lot of lefties in their line-up. Is this a strategy to contacin David Warner?
David Warner won the toss and SRH will field first!
Eoin Morgan and David Warner are walking in the middle to flip the coin. What would be the playing eleven that the both teams would go with?
We are going to be there with you throughout this exciting third game of the IPL 2021. It promises to be a blockbuster Sunday game between the two great teams.
Keep posted for all live action!
Background
The third match of IPL 2021 will be played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders from 7:30 pm today at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. This is the first match of both the teams in this season, hence, both teams will try their best to start their campaign with a win. KKR and SRH both have overseas captains in the form of Eoin Morgan and David Warner, respectively.
Both teams are heavy on their bowling. KKR has a lot of spinners while SRH has a lof of fast-bowlers in their arsenal. Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowling attack has been strengthened by the return of fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar. At the same time, the team already have star T20 bowlers like Rashid Khan, Jason Holder and T. Natarajan.
This time in the IPL, no team would have a home advantage as all the matches would be played at neutral venues. The fixtures are designed as such that no team requires to travel a lot. This is due to the Covid-19 travel restrictions.
The match will be played in MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai which has a history of favoring the batsmen. Even a score in excess of 200 could be chased here. It will test the likes of Rashid and Narine but the conditions at Chidambaram Stadium would help the spinners especially in the second innings of the match. So the captain who would win the toss will most likely field first.
SRH won the toss and choose to bowl first in Chennai!
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: D Warner, W Saha, M Pandey, J Bairstow, V Shankar, M Nabi, A Samad, R Khan, B Kumar, S Sharma, T Natarajan
Knight Riders Playing XI: S Gill, N Rana, R Tripathi, E Morgan, D Karthik, A Russell, P Cummins, S Al Hasan, H Singh, V Chakravarthy, P Krishna
Stay tuned for further updates related to Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad.
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