Mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy has bowled a outstanding three-over spell as Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 5 runs within the Indian Premier League.
Chakravarthy completed with 1-20 in 4 overs and defended 9 runs off the ultimate six deliveries, conceding solely three, as Hyderabad have been restricted to 8-166 on Thursday.
This was after Rinku Singh’s 46 off 35 balls had helped Kolkata attain 9-171.
Kolkata had made a poor begin with Rahmanullah Gurbaz falling for a first-ball duck, whilst Jason Roy made 20 off 19 balls.
Marco Jansen struck twice, choosing up each Gurbaz and Venkatesh Iyer for seven runs, with the rating at 2-16.
Roy’s early dismissal left a tricky rebuilding job for the incoming batters however Singh and skipper Nitish Rana (42) then added 61 off 40 balls for the fourth wicket to resurrect the Kolkata innings.
At 4-96, the job was solely half completed when Rana was out caught and bowled to Aiden Markram within the twelfth over.
Singh then placed on very important partnerships with the lower-middle order batsmen, most prominently 31 off 18 balls with Andre Russell (24).
Russell hit two sixes however Hyderabad saved putting at common intervals and Kolkata’s scoring price by no means picked any actual momentum.
Hyderabad acquired off to a gradual begin in reply, openers Mayank Agarwal and Abhishek Sharma solely placing on 29 off 17 balls.
Pacers Vaibhav Arora (2-32) and Shardul Thakur (2-23) picked up 4 wickets to rock the Hyderabad line-up, whereas Russell dismissed Rahul Tripathi for 20.
The large blow got here when left-arm spinner Anukul Roy trapped Harry Brook lbw for a four-ball duck – one other failure for the England star.
The center order propelled Hyderabad’s innings, skipper Markram and Heinrich Klaasen placing on 70 off 47 balls for the fifth wicket.
This is the place the sport turned for Kolkata with each set batsmen dismissed within the area of three overs.
Chakravarthy then squeezed the line-up, bowling 18 out of the final 30 deliveries, and sending down eight dot balls.
Abdul Samad saved the chase ticking as he scored 21 off 18 balls, with three fours, however he holed out to deep midwicket within the remaining over and Hyderabad fell brief once more.
Kolkata thus secured the win to maintain alive their hopes for play-off qualification and now have eight factors from 10 video games — adequate for eighth place.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
