Sunrisers Hyderabad finished on 226 for 8 after being asked to bat first by Kolkata Knight Riders at Eden Gardens. It was a high-scoring surface, with the ball coming nicely onto the bat and little help for the bowlers early on.<\/p>\n
Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma set the tone in the powerplay with aggressive strokeplay. Boundaries came regularly, and KKR struggled to contain the flow of runs. Abhishek looked set for a bigger score but fell for 48 off 21 after a close catch was referred upstairs. The third umpire ruled it out, though the batter was not pleased and showed his frustration before leaving.<\/p>\n
Kolkata responded well after the early damage. Blessing Muzarabani turned the innings with key wickets, finishing with four scalps. He removed both set batters and broke the momentum at a crucial stage.<\/p>\n
Anukul Roy and Varun Chakravarthy supported him by keeping things tight and picking up wickets. For a brief period, KKR managed to slow the scoring and bring the game back into balance.<\/p>\n
SRH regained control in the final overs. Heinrich Klaasen held the innings together and reached a half-century, while Nitish Reddy added important runs in support.<\/p>\n
The last five overs produced 58 runs, exposing KKR\u2019s issues at the death again. Despite taking wickets, they could not stop the flow of runs on a batting-friendly pitch.<\/p>\n
This is the same ground where a 33-ball century was scored in a T20 World Cup semi-final, and the conditions remain similar. Chasing 227 will be challenging but not out of reach, especially with dew expected later. The question now is simple: can KKR chase?<\/p>\n
Teams \u2013<\/strong><\/p>\n Sunrisers Hyderabad<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan(w\/c), Heinrich Klaasen, Aniket Verma, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Salil Arora, Harsh Dubey, Shivang Kumar, Jaydev Unadkat, David Payne<\/p>\n Kolkata Knight Riders<\/b>\u00a0(Playing XI): Ajinkya Rahane(c), Cameron Green, Angkrish Raghuvanshi(w), Rinku Singh, Ramandeep Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Varun Chakaravarthy, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Blessing Muzarabani<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n SRH post 226 after strong start at Eden Gardens Sunrisers Hyderabad finished on 226 for 8 after being asked to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":473,"featured_media":46868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46869,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46867\/revisions\/46869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}