Sunrisers Hyderabad made a spectacular comeback in IPL 2026 and registered their first win by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders by 65 runs. The heroes of Hyderabad’s victory in this match were both its bowling and strong batting. Batting first, the team scored 226 runs by losing 8 wickets in 20 overs and set a big target of 227 runs for Kolkata.
Aggressive innings of Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma
Hyderabad’s start was very aggressive. Openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma scored fast and added 82 runs in just 34 balls. Both of them put pressure on the Kolkata bowlers in the initial overs. Head played useful innings of 46 runs and Abhishek played useful innings of 48 runs. After this, Heinrich Klaasen took charge of the innings and scored 52 runs in 35 balls and took the team to a big score.
Kolkata’s bowling looked weak in this match. Although Blessing Muzarabani took 4 wickets and Vaibhav Arora took 2 wickets, but the rest of the bowlers failed to make an impact. Especially in the spin department, Sunil Narine and Varun Chakraborty could not do anything special, of which Hyderabad batsmen took advantage.
Struggle of Angkrish Raghuvanshi
Kolkata team, which came to chase the target, looked under pressure from the very beginning. The entire team was all out after scoring 161 runs in 16 overs. Young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi definitely put up a fight by scoring 52 runs in 29 balls. Rinku Singh added 35 runs, but other batsmen failed to play big innings.
Jaydev Unadkat performed brilliantly in bowling for Hyderabad and took 3 wickets. Ishan Malinga and Nitish Kumar Reddy also contributed significantly to the team’s victory by taking 2 wickets each.
With this victory, Hyderabad took a step towards improving its previous record, because in the earlier matches played between the two teams, Kolkata had the upper hand. At the same time, the Kolkata team clearly needs improvement in its bowling and combination.
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