Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday night and registered their first win of this season.
Earlier Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and opted to bat first. Inform Jonny Bairstow had no clue against Pat Cummins and bowled out for just 5 runs. David Warner and Manish Pandey rebuilt the innings and when Warner was looking dangerous Varun Chakravarthy sent him back to the dressing room for 36 runs. Manish Pandey and Saha took the job in their hands but they couldn't score quick runs. Pandey brought up his 50 but he and Saha struggled to hit big shots and
they could manage 142/4 in 20 overs.
In reply, Kolkata Knight Riders lost Sunil Narine for a duck. Nitish Rana counter attacked and hit a few fours but his innings didn't last long as Natrajan dismissed him for 26 and in the next over Rashid Khan dismissed Karthik for a duck and at 53/3 Knight Riders were in trouble but Shubman Gill and Eoin Morgan brought back their team into the game and their 92* runs partnership took team home in the 18th
over. Shubman Gill played 70* runs brilliant knock while Morgan helped him with 42* runs.
All the major stats and facts from the eighth match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad in Abu Dhabi :
1 - Kuldeep Yadav has taken only 1 wicket at an average of 218 in his last 7 matches in IPL.
7 - Sunrisers Hyderabad have only 7 of their last 23 matches in the Indian Premier League.
7 - Manish Pandey scored his 7th fifty-plus score for Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL.
Most fifty-plus scores for SRH in IPL -
36 - David Warner
19 - Shikhar Dhawan
12 - Kane Williamson
7 - Manish Pandey
5 - Moises Henriques
9 - Dinesh Karthik bagged his 9th duck in the Indian Premier League.
11 - This was Kolkata Knight Riders' 11th win over Sunrisers Hyderabad in the Indian Premier League.
Most wins for KKR in IPL -
17 vs KXIP
14 vs RCB
13 vs DC
11 vs SRH
10 vs RR
44 - Sunil Narine now averages 44 with the ball against Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL. He has taken 10 wickets in 17 matches against them.
Sunil Narine against SRH in IPL -
Matches - 17
Wickets - 10
Average - 44
Best - 3/26
