Rahul Tripathi played a scintillating innings as Sunrisers Hyderabad showed the firepower to chase down tough targets as they beat Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets at the Brabourne Stadium on Friday night. Tripathi scored 71 off 37 and Aiden Markram remained unbeaten on 68 off 36 to force SRH to chase down 176 as they registered their third straight win of IPL 2022.
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SRH recovered from the initial setback after losing to Abhishek Sharma (3) and captain Kane Williamson (17) inside the powerplay. Tripathi and Markram join hands to repair the initial damage with the former in a puny mood.
Tripathi and Markram put on 94 runs for the third wicket, which proved to be a match-winning partnership.
Tripathi hit four fours and four sixes during his innings while Markram hit six fours and four sixes and chased down the target in just 17.5 overs.
Earlier, the SRH pacers controlled the innings for a large part before Nitish Rana and Andre Russell took KKR to a challenging total. The Knight Riders lost three top-order batsmen cheaply within the overs of the powerplay, but recovered somewhat to post a decent total thanks to Rana and Russell’s unbeaten 54 and 49 not out.
Pacers Marco Janssen (1/26), T Natarajan (3/37), Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/37) and Umran Malik (2/27) took wickets.
Opting to field, South Africa’s Jensen did really well using bounce and swing to take out the first blood as he sent off Aaron Finch (7), who was playing his first match of the season, in the second over. Back in the hut. Natarajan then bowled a sensational fifth over, taking two wickets.
Natarajan bowled a superb length first, pitching outside the account of Venkatesh Iyer (6) who looked shaky during his stay, flamboyant Sunil Narine (6) a couple of balls later after his teammate gave KKR 3 Dropped for 31 runs on the wicket. ,
Kane Williamson opened the spin but left-armer Jagdish Suchit (1/32) looked rusty and struggled with his line.
Young Malik then picked up the wickets of Shreyas Iyer (28) and Sheldon Jackson (7) in the 10th over as Sunrisers bowlers continued to strike at regular intervals.
However, Rana kept the score board in check with his 36-ball knock hitting singles and fours.
Rana hit six fours and two sixes. He was involved in a 39-run stand with Captain Iyer and Russell each.
However, in the 18th over, Natarajan stopped him in the middle as SRH broke a potentially dangerous partnership.
Russell, who had four fours and as many sixes in his 25-ball knock, which included two in the final over. West Indies helped KKR add 55 runs in the last five overs.
With PTI inputs
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