Sunrisers Hyderabad chasing 201 for victory against KKR have already lost four wickets inside the first 10 overs. They have been rattled early in the chase by the Kolkata Knight Riders seamers.
The SRH innings started very similarly to that of KKR's The Hyderbad side lost both their openers Travis Head (4 runs off 2 balls) and Abhishek Sharma ( 2 runs off 6 balls) in the very first over.
Vaibhav Arora dismissed Head while Harshit accounted for Sharma's wicket. The two pacers gave KKR a very good start with the ball. Problems further worsened for SRH when Ishan Kishan ( 2 runs off five balls) was dismissed by Arora in the third over of the innings.
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Then Nitish Reddy (19 runs off 15 balls) and Kamindu Mendis (25 off 18 balls) added a 35-run stand and tried giving SRH some sort of momentum in the chase from being 9/3 at one stage.
Vaibhav Arora Took The Big Wicket Of Travis Head
SRH's best over was the seventh over from Andre Russell which went for 18 runs. It was the first over of the West Indies all-rounder. Despite being expensive in the over, he managed to break the partnership and dismiss Reddy. SRH are rebuilding once again through Heinrich Klaasen and Kamindu Mendis (27 runs off 20 balls). Mendis then fell to Sunil Narine in the ninth over of the SRH chase.
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Previously in the game, after struggling for the first 10 overs, KKR managed to score 200/ 6 in their 20 overs. It was possible courtesy of a late surge from Venkatesh Iyer ( 60 runs off 29 balls) and Rinku Singh (32 runs off 17 balls). The partnership allowed KKR to score 78 runs in the last five overs which helped them post a masisve total in the end.
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