Yet another power-packed blockbuster game between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad came to an end after the Hyderabad’s orange army lost the game against Knights of Kolkata by 17 runs and won the game number 14 of the Indian Premier League season 10.
Gautam Gambhir and Co., after losing the toss, came into bat first and with the help pf Robin Uthappa’s 50, a fighting total of 172 runs was put on board. To chase the target of 173, the opening pair of Hyderabad, skipper David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan, came into bat. Once again this two openers went off the mark right from the beginning and added a total of 46 runs for the first wicket before Shikhar Dhawan was dismissed by Yusuf Pathan at 23.
The team was reduced for 46-1 and Moises Henriques came into bat at number 3 but was dismissed early by Chris Woakes after scoring 13 off 10 balls. Later, Yuvraj Singh and Deepak Hooda played few big shots which landed out of the fence. By the time it seemed that these two chaps will carry the inning the forward, Hooda was dismissed by Sunil Narine. Hooda hit 1 four and 1 six and scored a total of 13 quick runs in 7 balls.
After Hooda’s dismissal, all the responsibilities to chase the target came on Yuvi’s shoulders and the way his bat yelled those humungous shots, was simply phenomenal. He hit 2 fours and 2 huge sixes and scored 26 runs off just 16 balls. But Yuvi’s batting sting was not much long like the first game and he was dismissed, Chris Woakes while going for another big shot.
Five wickets had already fallen and the rest of the batting line-up was trying their best to take the team close to the victory. But the tail-enders of Hyderabad failed terribly and the SRH lost the game by 17 runs. This is the second consecutive game lost by the SRH in this season of IPL.
With this victory, Kolkata is back in first position of the points tally after having 3 wins in the bag followed by Mumbai Indians.
