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Defending champion Kolkata Knight Riders won the second match in the 18th IPL season on the basis of excellent bowling. The team defeated Sunriders Hyderabad by 80 runs at their homeground Eden Gardens Stadium. Varun Chakraborty and Vaibhav Arora took 3-3 wickets from KKR.
After losing the toss in Kolkata, KKR scored 200 runs losing 6 wickets. Angakrish Raghuvanshi scored 50 and Venkatesh Iyer scored 60 runs. In response, the Hyderabad team was reduced to 120 runs in 16.4 overs. Heinrich Klasson scored 33 runs. Read match updates …
Match analysis in 5 points …
1. Player of the Match
Vaibhav Arora gave KKR a great start to defend the target of 201 runs. Vaibhav sent the Travis Head to the pavilion in the first over. He then caught Ishaan Kishan in his second over. Vaibhav also took a big wicket of Henrik Klasson.
2. Hero of victory
- Varun Chakraborty: Chakraborty, who came to bowling in the middle overs, pushed SRH to the backfoot. He sent Aniket Verma, Pat Cummins and Simarjit Singh to the pavilion.
- Angkrish Raghuvanshi: After losing the toss, KKR lost 2 wickets for 16 runs. Raghuvanshi came here to bat, he put a fifty and brought the team to 100 runs.
- Venkatesh Iyer: KKR lost 4 wickets for 106 runs. Here Venkatesh put a fifty and brought the team close to 200. He also partnered 91 runs with Rinku Singh.
3. Fighter of the Match
Kamindu Mendis, who came out to debut IPL, was seen showing the fight with Sunrisers. He got to bowl a single over, but caught Raghuvanshi, looking dangerous. Mendis again showed a fight in batting and played 27 runs with 2 sixes and 1 four off 20 balls. However, this demonstration was not enough to win the victory of his team.
4. Turning point
Chasing the target of 201 runs, SRH lost the match in the powerplay itself. Ishaan Kishan 2, Travis Head 4 and Abhishek Sharma returned to the pavilion after scoring 2 runs. The team could not emerge after losing 3 wickets for 9 runs and was all out in the 17th over.
5. What did the captains say?
Sunrisers captain Pat Cummins said
The night was bad for us. In the mid -inning break, we felt that the target could be chase. We spent more runs due to poor fielding. Batting was very bad. Losing 3 consecutive matches is going bad. We scored 280 runs 2 weeks ago. Our batteries are trying my best, yet I am more unhappy with the fielding of the team. We lost some catches. The bowling was not as bad, he did good batting. We got only 3 overs from spin, I should have given some more overs to spinners there.
Kolkata captain Ajinkya Rahane said
This match was very important for us. I am happy to win by a big margin. We want to play on a similar pitch. We lost 2 wickets early, then took 6 overs. After the set, it became easy to score. Happy with the batting order. The last 2 matches were bad for us, we had made mistakes. Rinku and Venkatesh played good shots. Batters like Ramandeep, Russell and Moin remained sitting. Only after 15 overs, we adopted the strategy to attack, which came in handy. We wanted to make 180, the target of 200 was big. We have 3 good spinners. Naren and Varun bowled well. Vaibhav and Harshit gave the best wickets from the new ball.