- Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets in its 8th match of the IPL season.
- Most of the batsman of KKR played effectively against SRH.
KKR vs SRH IPL 2020, Match Highlights –
Shubham Gill, the 21 years old batsman knocked the ball with a straight bat to the long-on walked on the other end with minimum pressure. KKR had a professional chase that hardly looked threatened by the bowling of Sunrisers Hyderabad after the early setbacks.
KKR looked slightly different from the first match where they were beaten. Players from the teams were changed. KKR welcomed the mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy and the quick kamlesh Nagarkoti, while on the other hand Mohammad Nabi & Wriddhiman Saha came to beef up the SRH middle order batting line-up.
In the middle overs, Varun bowled very well, getting SRH David Warner out in the simple return catch. It was the one from the KKR with different look in the match.
For the starters, Pat Cummins nodded of the question about his bowling at upfront, getting rid of Bairstow after cramping consistently both the openers of the room. With great degree of control over bowling, Kuldeep Yadav just bowled two overs. With his fine batting and hitting ability, Eoin Morgan eased himself back in to the form.
However the star of the night was Shubham Gill with the effortless batting and taking KKR out of pressure. From KKR Gill and Morgan assured the batting phase and save Manish Pandey’s half century. The decision of David Warner to bat first was not a good decision.
Here we look at the three players who were the key factors to put their team lay down:
- Bhuvneshwar Kumar (SRH)
To open the bowling as usual from SRH side, Bhuvneshwar Kumar hold the total of defending 142 runs. Gill was initially calm and tied down as he was seen against Mumbai Indians, but this time showed his class batting with boundaries through square leg.
The first over of Kumar was very good but the next over went wrong and went for 13 runs with batting of Nitish Rana. He gave 26 runs in 13 balls ensured a successful powerplay from KKR. Kumar finished his phase of bowling with 3-0-29-0 by giving 10 runs an over while the required Run-rate was 7 approximate. - Sunil Narine (KKR)
In the game where three KKR players valued for- Russell nailing the Yorkers at close, Cummins was lethal and economical with the new ball with Morgan professional with the chase. But the question marked around Sunil Narine and he remained one to be answered.
In the both previous game, Narine had insufficient impact at the top order batsman but this time he was even hard to get away. However in the match where many KKR bowlers excelled, but Narine was not able to get even one. His figures were 4-0-31-0 and it was not bad either. - Jonny Bairstow (SRH)
SRH in 2019 have commanding performance in the first few games but nothing much showed in the rest. They managed to sneak through NRR largely due to Bairstow and Warner.
With Warner being dip in form, it seems for Bairstow to have the momentum in the SRH innings as he dill great in the previous game against RCB.
With leaving the field for 5 off 10 with off-stump pegged by Aussie, Bairstow left his mates marooned with breaking expectations.
Manish Pandey, not a batsman but find timings to hit and had Bairstow saw the early storm from the KKR side.
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