Kolkata : Kolkata Knight Riders on home ground Eden Gardens demolished the challenge of Sunrisers Hyderabad. In his fourth match of IPL-10, he beat Hyderabad by 17 runs. Chasing the target of 173, Sunrisers could score only 155/6. Along with this, Kolkata retaliated with Hyderabad’s defeat in the previous IPL’s Eliminator.This is a second consecutive defeat in the four matches of Hyderabad. Robin Uthappa, who played half-century from KKR, was the man of the match.
Yuvraj Singh disappointed Hyderabad
Sunil Narine made Deepak Hooda (13 runs) on the stump. Yuvraj Singh had Sunrisers Hyderabad’s hopes. But they also made 26 runs. He was dismissed by Chris Woakes. After this, Ben Cutting was out by Trent Bolt at 129. Hyderabad had a difficult target of 30 runs to win in the last over. But he scored 12 runs. Bipul Sharma (21 runs) and Naman Ojha (11 runs) could not do any charisma.
Pathan’s first success for Kolkata
David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan gave a solid start to Hyderabad. Chasing 173 runs, the duo added 46 runs. Dhawan (23 runs) was dismissed by Yusuf Pathan. Colin de Grandhom caught the cat. Earlier, Dhawan had scored three consecutive fours in Trent Boult for the fourth over. Kolkata’s captain tried five bowlers to break this partnership. Eventually Yusuf Pathan got the breakthrough. Warner stumped on the second ball of the eighth over. But Chainaman Kuldeep Yadav got the wicket of Warner (26 runs) at the score of 59. Chris Woakes hit Henriques (13 runs) on his 65 off the score.
Kolkata gave the target of 173 runs
Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 173 runs for victory. Kolkata made 172/6 thanks to the 77-run partnership between Robin Uthappa (68 runs, 39 balls) and Manish Pandey (46 runs). Kolkata had a shock at the start of the innings. Gautam Gambhir has not been able to do anything. Bhuvneshwar Kumar picked up three wickets in the 4 overs with 20 runs from Hyderabad. While Rashid Khan, Ashish Nehra and Ben Cutting get one wicket each.
Uthappa Pandey tried to take charge
Wicketkeeper Robin Uthappa (68 runs) and Manish Pandey, Kolkata, added 77 runs in the prized 52 balls for the third wicket. Ben Cutting caught him in the hands of Rashid Khan. Uthappa made 4 sixes in 39 balls. The challenge was to raise the rain rate in front of Manish Pandey (46 runs). But on the score of 153, Captain Warner caught his upper hand Bhawaneshwar got the second wicket. Ashish Nehra (4 runs) sent back Sun Kumar Yadav to the score of 163. In the last over, Colin de Grandhom (0) was bowled by Bhuvai. Yusuf Pathan (21 runs) returned unbeaten.
Captain Gambhir’s experiment fail this time
This time the captain’s bets are not available. Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled Sunil Narine (6 runs) on the score of 10. Narain scored the first match of the match. Gautam Gambhir (15 runs) was also not able to stay for long, Rasheed Khan bowled for his spin. Rashid Khan has taken wickets in his very first over in four matches so far. Sunil Narine, who gave a brilliant start to Kolkata Knight Riders in the previous match, once again started the innings. In the last match against Kings XI Punjab, Naren partnership 76 runs with captain Gautam Gambhir.
SRH win toss,ball first
In the 14th match of the IPL-10, last champion Sunrisers Hyderabad will face Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) on Saturday. The Kolkata team will go for a revenge of the defeat defeated by the Hyderabad in the Eliminator last year. Hyderabad had to face the defeat of the Mumbai Indians in their previous IPL match. While Kolkata won the Kings XI Punjab by 8 wickets.
KKR vs Hyderabad: Head to Head
So far there have been 9 match’s between the two teams . Of which Kolkata has win 6 times.
Point Table: ipl:10
1. Mumbai: 4 matches, win 3, loss 1, point 6, net runrets +0.308
2. Kolkata: 4 matches, win 3, loss 1, point 4, net runrete +1.675
3. Hyderabad: 3 matches, win 2, loss 1, point 4, net runrete +1.156
Punjab: 3 matches, win 2, loss 1, point 4, net runrets +0.516
5.Delhi: 2 matches, win a1, loss 1, point 2, net runrets +2.050
6.Bengaluru: 4 matches, win 1, loss 3, point 2, net runrets -1.044
7.Gujarat: 3 matches, win 1, loss 2, point 2, net runRat -1.386
8. Pune: 4 matches, win 1, loss 3, point 2, net runrets-1.537
predicted Playing XI
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Shikhar Dhawan, David Warner (captain), Deepak Hooda, Yuvraj Singh, Ben Kanting / M. Henriques, Naman Ojha (wicketkeeper), Vijay Shankar / Bipul Sharma, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Mustafizur Rahman
Kolkata Knight Riders: Gautam Gambhir (captain), Robin Uthappa (wicketkeeper), Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Colin de Grandhom / Shakib Al Hasan / Rovman Powell, Chris Woakes, Sunil Narine, Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Trent Bolt
