Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad in a thrilling Super Over at Sheikh Zayed Stadium in Abu Dhabi and registered their fifth win of the season while Sunrisers Hyderabad suffered their sixth loss.
Earlier Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and opted to field first. Rahul Tripathi and Shubman Gill gave a decent start of 48 runs in 6 overs. Natrajan dismissed Tripathi and broke this stand, Gill struggled to score quick runs but Rana counter-attacked but once again both the batsmen failed to convert their starts and got out in back to backovers.
Andre Russell's poor form continued and he could manage only 9 runs and at 105/4 in 15 overs Knight Riders were in a bit of trouble but in the last five overs, Dinesh Karthik's 29* and Morgan's 34 helped their team to post 163/5 on the board.
In reply Jonny Bairstow and his new opening partner, Kane Williamson gave a flying start of 58 runs in 6 overs. Lockie Ferguson who was playing his first match first dismissed Kane Williamson for 29 and then Priyam Garg for 4 runs and brought back his team into the game. Jonny Bairstow too got out of Varun Chakravarthy's bowling for 36 runs and then Manish Pandey's poor run also continued and at 82/4 in 12th over Hyderabad was at bay.
Captain David Warner along with Abdul Samad kept his team alive and in the last over they needed 18 runs to win off Russell bowling and Warner managed 17 runs and thus match ended in a tie. In the Super Over Lockie Ferguson dismissed Warner for a duck and Abdu Samad for 2 runs and Hyderabad could manage only 2 runs and later Knight Riders chased it down with ease.
All the major stats and facts from the 35th match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders in Abu Dhabi :
3 - This was the third tied match of this IPL season and overall 12th tied match of Indian Premier League's history.
Tied Matches in IPL 2020 -
DC vs KXIP at Dubai
RCB vs MI at Dubai
SRH vs KKR at Abu Dhabi
Tied Matches in IPL -
RR vs KKR at Cape Town, 2009
CSK vs KXIP at Chennai, 2010
SRH vs RCB at Hyderabad, 2013
RCB vs Delhi Capitals at Bangalore, 2013
RR vs KKR at Abu Dhabi, 2014
RR vs KXIP at Ahmedabad, 2015
GL vs MI at Rajkot, 2017
DC vs KKR at Delhi, 2019
MI vs SRH at Mumbai, 2019
DC vs KXIP at Dubai, 2020
RCB vs MI at Dubai, 2020
SRH vs KKR at Abu Dhabi, 2020
92 - Andre Russell has scored only 92 runs in 9 matches of this IPL season so far with the highest score of 24.
100 - Pat Cummins has completed 100 wickets in T20 cricket. He has taken total of 100 wickets in 91 T20 matches.
912 - Runs David Warner has scored against Kolkata Knight Riders in IPL - the second-most by any batsman.
Most runs against KKR in IPL -
939 - Rohit Sharma
912 - David Warner
818 - Suresh Raina
707 - Virat Kohli
682 - Shikhar Dhawan
5000 - David Warner became the first non-Indian and overall fourth batsman to score 5000 runs in IPL. He has scored total of 5037 runs in 135 matches.
5000 or more runs in IPL -
5759 - Virat Kohli
5368 - Suresh Raina
5158 - Rohit Sharma
5037 - David Warner
