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Andre Russell was named player of the match.
Kolkata Knight Riders have got off to a winning start in the Indian Premier League-2024. The team registered a thrilling 4-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the third match of the season. The hero of this victory was Andre Russell. He played an explosive innings of 64 not out off 25 balls. He also took two wickets.
The Hyderabad team, who came to chase the target of 209 runs at the Eden Gardens Stadium on Saturday, could score only 204 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Heinrich Klaasen played an aggressive innings of 63 runs with 8 sixes in 29 balls, but he could not lead his team to victory. Apart from them, openers Abhishek Sharma and Mayank Agarwal contributed 32 runs each. Harshit Rana took 3 wickets.
Opener Phil Salt scored 54 runs in the Kolkata innings. Ramandeep Singh contributed 35 runs and Rinku Singh contributed 23 runs. T Natarajan took three wickets. Russell was named player of the match.
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Reasons for the defeat of Hyderabad
- The Bhuvi-Yansan pair failed Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins won the toss and opted to bowl, but the team’s attacking bowlers failed to live up to his expectations. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Marco Janson, who came to bowl the new ball, could not get wickets for the team and spent runs at an economy of 13. Both could not put pressure on Phil Salt who scored an innings of 54 runs off 40 balls amid the fall of wickets.
- He bowled poorly in the last 5 overs, giving away 85 runs The Hyderabad bowlers bowled poorly in the death overs. Taking advantage of this, he along with Andre Russell and Rinku Singh took his team’s score to 208. Kolkata’s score was 123/6 after 15 overs. Hyderabad bowlers gave away 85 runs in the last 5 overs. Russell scored an unbeaten 64 runs with the help of 7 sixes and 3 fours.
- Couldn’t capitalize on a strong start The Hyderabad openers made a fast start to chase down the target of 209 runs. The opening pair of Abhishek Sharma and Mayank Agarwal put on a partnership of 60 runs off 33 balls, but Rahul Tripathi (20 runs off 20 balls) and Aiden Markram (18 runs off 13 balls) could not capitalize on the openers’ strong start. Both batted at a low strike rate of 140.
- Bowling Harshit Rana Hyderabad needed 13 runs to win in the last over and the pair of Heinrich Klaasen and Shahbaz Ahmed were at the top, who had scored 26 runs in the last over with the help of 4 sixes off Mitchell Starc. In such a situation, despite hitting a six on the first ball, Harshit took the wickets of Shahbaz and then Clausen and led the team to victory.
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During Salt’s half century, Ramandeep hit 4 sixes
After losing the toss and opting to bat, Kolkata did not get off to a special start. The team lost the wicket of opener Sunil Narine on the score of 23 runs. After that Venkatesh Iyer scored 7 runs, captain Shreyas Iyer 0 and Nitish Rana returned to the pavilion after scoring 9 runs.
Here it seemed that the team would not be able to reach 200 runs, but Ramandeep Singh scored 35 runs with the help of 4 sixes in 17 balls. Rinku Singh and Andre Russell later added 81 runs off 33 balls. T Natarajan took three wickets. Mayank Markande got 2 wickets. One wicket went to Pat Cummins.
Sharma-Agarwal’s half-century partnership, Clausen’s fifty
Hyderabad openers Abhishek Sharma and Mayank Agarwal laid a strong foundation for the chase by making a partnership of 60 runs off 33 balls. But the middle batsmen could not carry it forward.
In the end, the pair of Heinrich Klaasen and Shahbaz Ahmed brought Hyderabad back into the game with a partnership of 58 runs in 16 balls.
Both teams play under 11
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Heinrich Klaasen, Abdul Samad, Shahbaz Ahmed, Marco Jansson, Pat Cummins (captain), Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande and T Natarajan.
Kolkata Knight Riders: Venkatesh Iyer, Phil Salt, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Rinku Singh, Nitish Rana, Sunil Narine, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh, Mitchell Starc, Harshit Rana and Varun Chakravarthy.
