SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur helped KKR beat SRH in the last over thriller
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Kolkata Knight Riders were taking on Sunrisers Hyderabad in match number 47 of the IPL 2023 at SRH’s home ground “”Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium”. The match between these two teams went to the very last ball, where KKR managed to secure their total while Sunrisers Hyderabad weren’t able to achieve the target in the overs permitted. Rinku Singh’s and Nitish Rana’s innings after the top order collapse helped KKR put a fighting total on the board. Later, Shardul Thakur and Vaibhav Arora’s bowling spells helped KKR seal their fourth win in this IPL.
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Playing XI of the teams
Surisers Hyderabad: Team Hyderabad entered the field with some changes. Umran Malik and Akael Hosein were not part of the playing XI, and Rahul Tripathi was later substituted as an impact player.
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing XI: Mayank Agarwal, Abhishek Sharma, Aiden Markram(c), Heinrich Klaasen(w), Harry Brook, Abdul Samad, Marco Jansen, Mayank Markande, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Kartik Tyagi, T Natarajan
Impact Player: Rahul Tripathi
Kolkata knight Riders: Team Kolkata Knight Riders entered the ground with some changes, like David Weise and Narayan Jagadeesan, who were not part of the playing XI in the last match.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing XI: Rahmanullah Gurbaz(w), Jason Roy, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana(c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Sunil Narine, Shardul Thakur, Vaibhav Arora, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakaravarthy
Impact Player: Anukul Roy
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Rinku Singh and Nitish Rana’s Partnership
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: After winning the toss, KKR’s captain Nitish Rana decided to bat first, and the innings of KKR was opened by Rahmanullah Gurbaz (w) and Jason Roy. The two destructive right-handed batters entered the crease, and Jason Roy started dealing in boundaries. In the very first over of their innings, he hit Bhubaneswar Kumar for two boundaries, but Rahmanullah Gurbaz failed to do so and in the next over, while trying to hit the ball out of the park, he got caught and returned to the pavilion without scoring runs. The wicket was taken by Marco Jansen.
Venkatesh Iyer walked to the crease to make some runs, but Marco Jansen dismissed him in the same over as he got caught behind while trying to play the pull shot. Jason Roy tried to continue his innings, but Kartik Tyagi ended his innings early. Jason Roy only managed to score 20 runs in 19 balls.
Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh, well, these were the players that would take the KKR innings to a defendable score. They slowly started accelerating the scoreboard, and when the team’s score was 96, Nitish Rana, while trying to hit a sweep shot to Aiden Markram, loafed the ball up, and Markram took a marvelous catch to dismiss the opponents’ team captain, Nitish Rana.
The big man, Andre Russell, entered the crease and started depositing the balls in the stands, but his innings didn’t last as he fell to Mayank Markande’s spin and managed to score only 24 runs. Meanwhile, Rinku Singh was making runs from the other end and took the team’s total to 168 runs. After that, KKR managed to put 171 runs on the board, which was a defendable total on the pitch.
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Top order failed to impress
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Sunrisers Hyderabad opened their innings with Mayank Agarwal (right-handed) and Abhishek Sharma (left-handed), and they both looked promising in the start, but in the third over, Mayank Agarwal was dismissed by Harshit Rana by bowling a good bouncer to him. Rahul Tripathi, as an impact player substitute, came to the crease and started in his own fashion. He hit Andre Russell for 15 runs before getting out in the same over.
KKR bowlers started putting pressure on the SRH batters, and so far they have lost their three top-order batters. Harry Brook also failed to impress and got dismissed without scoring runs. Heinrich Klaasen and skipper Aiden Markram took charge and started building the partnership that was required to chase the target. Shardul Thakur came to bowl again and took Heinrich Klaasen’s wicket, and later Aiden Markram got dismissed while he was playing at 41, and this was the turning point as KKR shifted the momentum towards their side.
The batters afterwards failed to do the required job, and KKR managed to seal an exciting win as SRH fell short by 5 runs.
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Varun Chakaravarthy held his nerves in the last over
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: In the last over of the match, SRH needed only 9 runs, and KKR’s skipper Nitish Rana gave the ball to Varun Chakaravarthy, the mystery spinner of KKR, to save the runs for his team, which looked like an uncalculated decision at first, but Varun Chakaravarthy not only saved the runs but also managed to gain a wicket in his name. He took the wicket of Abdul Samad, who is considered one of the power hitters in SRH’s team.
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Post- Match
SRH vs KKR highlights IPL 2023: Match number 47 of the IPL 2023 was full of twists and turns. The total put up by KKR batters was not an unachievable one, but SRH failed to capitalize on the opportunity. SRH’s top batters failed to perform well, and the quick wickets taken by KKR’s bowlers initially built the pressure on the batters to come through. Klaasen and Markram almost changed the course of the game in their favor, but the batters afterward weren’t able to continue the good work.
Post-Match Statements:
Player of the match Varun Chakaravarthy post-match said:
“My heartbeat was touching 200 in the last over, but I wanted them to make hit to the longer part of the ground. The ball was slipping a lot and my best bet was longer side and that was my only hope. My first over I went for 12 runs, Markram hit me for 2 fours and that’s how the game goes. Last year I was bowling around 85kmph, I was trying out many things and I realized that I needed to work on my revolutions and I did work on it.”