Kolkata. Sunrisers Hyderabad scored 226 runs for eight wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) after being invited to bat first in the Indian Premier League T20 match here on Thursday. Heinrich Klaasen played the highest innings of 52 runs for Sunrisers. Abhishek Sharma contributed 48 runs, Travis Head contributed 46 runs and Nitish Kumar Reddy contributed 39 runs. Blessing Muzarabani was the most successful bowler for KKR with four wickets. Vaibhav Arora got two successes.
Abhishek-Head gave a fast start to SRH
Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings was started by Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head. Both the openers batted stormily and gave a fast start to the team, but Sunrisers Hyderabad got the first blow in the form of Travis Head in the powerplay. Kartik Tyagi showed the head the way to the pavilion. Head was out after playing an innings of 46 runs in 21 balls. During this, he hit 6 fours and 3 sixes.
After this, Blessing Muzarabani gave 2 blows to Sunrisers Hyderabad in the same over. On the second ball of the 9th over, Muzarabani showed captain Ishan Kishan the way to the pavilion. Ishaan was out after scoring 14 runs on 9 balls. Then on the fourth ball Abhishek Sharma became his victim. Abhishek played an inning of 48 runs in 21 balls. During this, 4 fours and 4 sixes came from his bat. Then Anukul Roy walked Aniket Verma on the personal score of 1 run. In this way Sunrisers Hyderabad had lost 3 wickets within 9 balls.
After this, there was a partnership of 83 runs for the fifth wicket between Heinrich Klaasen and Nitish Kumar Reddy, but in the 19th over, Vaibhav Arora stopped the pace of runs of Sunrisers Hyderabad by taking 2 consecutive wickets. Vaibhav walked Nitish Reddy on the first ball of this over. Nitish Reddy was out after scoring 39 runs on 24 balls. After this, Salil Arora was sent to the pavilion on the very next ball. Salil could not even open an account.
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