With a convincing 5 wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders, Sunrisers Hyderabad continued their winning streak in the Indian Premier League 2018.
As Sunrisers chased 139, Sunrisers captain Kane Williamson came out with a stellar performance, anchoring the innings with his fifty as Sunrisers registered their third win this season at Eden Gardens.
Wriddhiman Saha started with a bang but perished soon as Sunil Narine was introduced.
Narine struck twice in the powerplay to deter the run flow.
The spin trio Narine, Kuldeep Yadav and Piyush Chawla went for 60 runs in 12 overs as the Kolkata spinners came to the fore, thus slowing things down for the Sunrisers. The spinners also picked up four wickets between them together.
Willaimson showed his class and kept things going for Sunrisers. He balanced singles and doubles and hit that odd boundary and got an able partner in Shakib Al Hasan.
The duo stroked together 59 to bring the equation to a run-a-ball.
Brilliant bowling which was led by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, helped Sunrisers withhold Kolkata Knight Riders to only 138/8 in the rain-interrupted match.
In splendid spell, Bhuvneshwar claimed 3/26 as the Kolkata Knight Riders struggled with his struggled to up the run rate against his amazing bowling.
SRH won the toss and opted to ball. The duo of Billy Stanlake (2/21) and Shakib Al Hasan (2/22)deterred KKR in the middle overs from over scoring and dented their morale, which finally triggered a collapse after an hour-long rain delay.
Shakib, The left-arm spinner from Bangladesh took the two key wickets of Chris Lynn (49 off 34 balls; 7×4, 1×6) and Sunil Narine (9) and played an integral part in restricting KKR to a small enough total.
Bhuvenshwar came with the first breakthrough in the match by taking the wicket of Robin Uthappa (3) in the third over after a successful use of DRS.
Bhuvneshwar’s incredible breakthrough and a small and clean two-run over by Stanlake had KKR struggling for 23/1 in 4 overs before Lynn and Rana seized the momentum in two overs off Siddharth Kaul and Rashid Khan who leaked 14 and 12 overs respectively in their first overs.
Before rain stopped the play at the score of 52/1 in seven overs, KKR were looking good with Lynn and Rana in the middle.
But SRH bounced back with an awesome catch by Manish Pandey. Pandey showed an incredible reaction as Rana hit Stanlake firmly wide of Pandey who grabbed the ball in his second attempt giving SHR the much-needed breakthrough.
Then SRH didn’t look back and from then on and they strode towards an easy victory.
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