KKR Dominates Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL Qualifier – Mitchell Starc shines with 3 wickets as Sunrisers collapse.

AHMEDABAD: Kolkata Knight Riders took out the Sunrisers Hyderabad batsmen who’ve been constant all through this IPL season within the first qualifier. Everybody entered the tent with out finishing the prescribed 20 overs. After profitable the toss and electing to bat within the first qualifying match held on the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Sunrisers have been bowled out for 159 in 19.3 overs. Mitchell Starc took three wickets and destroyed Hyderabad. Rahul Tripathi scored 55 runs off 35 balls. Hentich Klassen (32) and skipper Pat Cummins (30) took the staff’s rating to a greater stage.

The openers returned in type within the first two rounds. Travis Head (0) was dismissed in Mitchell Starc’s first wicket and Abhishek Sharma (3) in Vaibhav Arora’s second over. Within the fifth over, Starc shocked Hyderabad once more by returning Nitish Reddy (9) and Shahbaz Ahmad (0) in shut balls. With this, Starc turned the second-highest wicket-taker within the powerplay (9 wickets in 12 matches). Bhuvneshwar Kumar tops with 10 wickets.

With the lack of 4 wickets in 39 runs, Hyderabad took the again seat. Sunrisers managed to attain solely 45 runs within the powerplay. Regardless of the autumn, Rahul Tripathi’s innings was glorious. One six and 7 fours have been born in Tripathi’s bat. In the present day was Tripathi’s twelfth half-century within the IPL.

Tripathi was run out within the second ball of the fourteenth over. In opposition to the ball, Abdul Samad ran for one however Russell, who acquired possession of the ball, instantly threw it to keeper Gurbaz. Gurbaz made no mistake and was stumped. Sanvir Singh (0) was bowled by Sunil Narine within the third ball.

Hyderabad have been lowered to 126 for 9 when Samad (16) was dismissed in Harshit Rana’s over and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (0) in Chakraborty’s over. After that Captain Pat Cummins and Viaskant took the staff to a greater rating within the tenth wicket. Each of them scored 33 runs off 21 balls. Cummins (30 off 24 balls) was out on the third ball of Russell’s final over.

In the meantime, Hentich Klaasen and Tripathi had put collectively a partnership of 62 runs in 36 balls for the fifth wicket. That is how the staff recovered from the primary fall. Varun Chakraborty broke this partnership by dismissing Klaasen within the eleventh over. Klassen scored 32 runs off 21 balls.

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• Initially printed: Might 21, 2024, 9:53 PM IST

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