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IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Highlights: Kolkata wins, stays in playoffs contention

Shubman Gill hit a fine half century after an impressive display by the bowlers to guide KKR to a 6-wicket win over Sunrisres Hyderabad and keep their IPL play-offs hopes alive

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In Match 49 of 14th edition of Indian Premier League (IPL 2021), Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) at Dubai International Stadium on Sunday. 

Young Shubman Gill hit a fine half century after an impressive display by the bowlers to guide Kolkata Knight Riders to a six-wicket win over Sunrisres Hyderabad and keep their IPL play-offs hopes alive here on Sunday.

KKR first produced a clinical bowling effort to restrict SRH to a below-par 115 for eight and then rode on Gill's 57 off 51 balls to reach home comfortably.

The win consolidated KKR's position at the fourth place in the standings with 12 points from 13 games.

With three play-off berths already taken by Chennai Super Kings, Delhi Capitals and Royal Challengers Bangalore, the race is on for the fourth and final spot between KKR, Rajasthan Royals and defending champions Mumbai Indians while Punjab Kings are all but out of the tournament.

Defending a small total, SRH bowlers were right on their money from the word go as KKR batsmen struggled to force the pace of the innings.

The opening duo of Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Jason Holder were accurate upfront, while debutant Umran Malik's raw pace troubled Gill and Nitish Rana (25) in the middle overs.

Rashid Khan too created enough problems for the KKR batsmen, while Siddharth Kaul was incisive with his line and length, making it difficult for opposition batsmen to open their arms.

Venkatesh Iyer (8) and Rahul Tripathi (7) fell to Holder and Rashid in quick succession after which Gill and Rana found it difficult to rotate the strike as the asking rate climbed up with KKR reaching 44 for 2 at the halfway mark.

With Rana struggling to get going, Gill took the onus on himself to break the shackles and he did it by smacking Holder for two boundaries in the 12th over to bring down the equation to 53 off 42 balls.

Gill continued his attacking instinct and struck Malik for back-to-back boundaries in the next over to ease out the chase.

Gill and Rana looked at ease to finish off the chase before the former flicked one straight to Holder at long-on off Kaul's bowling.

The match witnessed some tense moment when Rana was dismissed in the 18th over but Dinesh Karthik (18 not out) and Eoin Morgan (2 not out) closed down the chase with two balls to spare.

Earlier, SRH skipper Kane Williamson's decision to bat first backfired as they lost wickets at regular intervals, failing to counter KKR's incisive bowling, especially of Tim Southee and the spin duo of Varun Chakravarthy and Sunil Narine.

Already out of contention for a play-offs berth, SRH witnessed a horrible start to their innings, losing Wriddhiman Saha for a duck in the second ball, LBW to Southee.

Jason Roy (10) was the next to follow, caught by Southee off Shivam Mavi in the fourth over.

Skipper Williamson (26 off 21) tried to resurrect the innings and was looking good before he was run out by Shakib Al Hasan with SRH scoreboard reading 38 for three in 6.5 overs.

Once Williamson departed, it was a struggle for SRH batsmen even though Priyam Garg (21) and Abdul Samad (25) tried to forge a partnership.

Garg was holed out at deep midwicket to Rahul Tripathi off Chakravarthy, while Jason Holder (2) fell to the same bowler in his next over.

Samad tried his best to pick up the tempo in the last five overs, hitting three lusty sixes but eventually perished in search of quick runs, caught by Shubman Gill of Southee's bowling.

Bhuvneshwar Kumar (7 not out) and Siddharth Kaul (7 not out) remained unbeaten in a 12-run ninth-wicket partnership.

The spin duo of Shakib (1/20) and Narine were brilliant in the middle overs as SRH batsmen found the going tough against them.

While Narine returned wicketless, he was economical, finishing with impressive figures of 4-0-12-0.

Southee (2/26), Mavi (2/29) and Chakravarthy (2/26) shared six wickets among them.



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Kolkata Knight Riders: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan(c), Shakib Al Hasan, Dinesh Karthik(w), Sunil Narine, Shivam Mavi, Tim Southee, Varun Chakaravarthy
 
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Kane Williamson(c), Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Siddarth Kaul

 


IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live scoreboard



 

11:01 PM

KKR wins!

Kolkata Knight Riders won by 6 wkts
10:57 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 19.4 over | KKR 119-4

 
 
Ball 4: FOUR! Karthik hits the winning shot and KKR wins it!
 
Ball 3: Single
 
Ball 2: Kaul to Karthik, 1 run
 
Ball 1: Kaul to Karthik, no run
10:53 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 19 over | KKR 113-4

 
 
Over Summary: 0 0 4 1 1 1
 
Ball 6: Single
 
Ball 5: Single
 
Ball 4: Single
 
Ball 3: FOUR! 
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 1: Bhuvneshwar to Karthik, no run
10:47 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 18 over | KKR 106-4

 
 
Over Summary: 1 1 1 4 0 W
 
Ball 6: Holder to Rana, out Caught by Saha!! Nitish Rana c W Saha b Holder 25(33)
 
Ball 5: Holder to Rana, no run
 
Ball 4: Holder to Rana, FOUR!
 
Ball 3: Holder to Karthik, 1 run
 
Ball 2: Holder to Nitish, single
 
Ball 1: Holder to Karthik, single to deep mid-wicket
10:44 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 17 over | KKR 99-3

 
 
Over Summary: 1 0 W 1 4 1
 
Ball 6: Single
 
Ball 5: Kaul to Karthik, FOUR
 
Ball 4: Kaul to Nitish, single
 
Ball 3: Kaul to Gill, OUT! Caught by Holder
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 1: Kaul to Nitish Rana, 1 run
10:40 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 16 over | KKR 92-2

 
 
Over Summary: 2 0 0 1 4 1
 
Ball 6: Single
 
Ball 5: FOUR!
 
Ball 4: Single
 
Ball 3: No run
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 1: Rashid Khan to Shubman Gill, 2 runs
10:39 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 15 over | KKR 78-2

 
Over Summary: 0 1 0 4 1 0
 
Ball 6: No run
84
Ball 5: Single
 
Ball 4: FOUR! 
 
Ball 3: No run
 
Ball 2: Single
 
Ball 1: Malik to Nitish, no run
10:38 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 14 over | KKR 78-2

 
 
Over Summary: 0 1 4 1 0 0
 
Ball 6: No run
 
Ball 5: No run
 
Ball 4: Single
 
Ball 3: FOUR! 
 
Ball 2: Single
 
Ball 1: Rashid Khan to Shubman Gill, no run
10:37 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 13 over | KKR 72-2

 
 
Over Summary: 4 4 1 0 0 0
 
Ball 6: No run
 
Ball 5: No run
 
Ball 4: No run
 
Ball 3: Single
 
Ball 2: FOUR! 
 
Ball 1: Malik to Gill, FOUR!
10:36 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 12 over | KKR 63-2

 
Over Summary: 1 4 1 1 4 1
 
Ball 6: Single
 
Ball 5: FOUR! 
 
Ball 4: Single
 
Ball 3: Single
 
Ball 2: FOUR! 
 
Ball 1: Holder to Nitish Rana, 1 run
10:35 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 11 over | KKR 51-2

 
 
Over Summary: 0 2 0 1 0 4
 
Ball 6: FOUR!
 
Ball 5: No run
 
Ball 4: Single
 
Ball 3: No run
 
Ball 2: Two runs 
 
Ball 1: Rashid to Nitish, no run
10:34 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 10 over | KKR 44-2

 
Over Summary: 0 0 1 0 1 0
 
Ball 6: No run
 
Ball 5: Single
 
Ball 4: No run
 
Ball 3: Single
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 1: Kaul to Shubman Gill, no run
10:33 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 9 over | KKR 42-2

 
 
Over Summary: 0 Wd 0 0 0 0 Wd 0
 
Ball 6: No run
 
Ball 6: Wide
 
Ball 5: No run
 
Ball 4: No run
 
Ball 3: No run
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 2: Wide
 
Ball 1: Malik to Rana, no run
9:59 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 8 over | KKR 40-2

 
Over Summary: 0 0 1 1 0 0
 
Ball 6: No run
 
Ball 5: No run
 
Ball 4: Single
 
Ball 3: Single
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 1: Kaul to Gill, no run
9:53 PM

IPL 2021, KKR vs SRH Live score after 7 over | KKR 38-1

 
 
Over Summary: 2 0 0 W 0 0
 
Ball 6: No run
 
Ball 5: No run
 
Ball 4: OUT! Caught by Abhishek Sharma 
 
Ball 3: No run
 
Ball 2: No run
 
Ball 1: Rashid Khan to Tripathi, 2 runs
 

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First Published: Oct 03 2021 | 5:32 PM IST