2024-03-25 20:14:37
Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won by 4 runs in a 412-run match against Sunrisers Hyderabad thanks to Andre Russell.
Andre Russell stormed first with the bat at the Eden Gardens on Saturday night. He scored an unbeaten 64 off 25 balls with 3 fours and 7 sixes. KKR got a big collection of 208 runs for 7 wickets. Then the West Indian all-rounder took 2 wickets with the ball in 2 overs. Bring back Abhishek Sharma and Abdul Samad. In the end, Hyderabad lost 7 wickets and could not score more than 204 runs. Kolkata started the new season of IPL with a great victory of 4 runs. Russell was definitely man of the match in all-round skills.
Kolkata lost the toss and lost 4 wickets for 51 runs in 7.3 overs. Phil Salt, Andre Russell, Ramandeep Singh and Rinku Singh pulled the team from there. Kolkata scored 157 runs in the next 12.3 overs with their stormy batting. Ramandeep scored 35 runs off 17 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes. Salt played a valuable innings of 54 runs off 40 balls with 3 fours and 3 sixes. Ringku played an innings of 23 runs with 3 fours off 15 balls and kept the team running. And Russell played an unbeaten innings of 64 with a storm of sixes to take the team’s total to 208.
With the ball, Thangarasu Natarajan of Hyderabad took 3 wickets with 32 runs in 4 overs. Mayank Markande took 2 wickets with 39 runs in 4 overs.
Hyderabad got off to a good start chasing runs. They scored 60 runs in 5.2 overs. From there he lost 4 wickets to go for 111 runs. Mayank Agarwal scored 32 runs with 4 fours and 1 six. Abhishek Sharma scored 32 runs with 4 fours and 2 sixes. Then Aiden Markram was dismissed for 18 and Rahul Tripathi scored 20 runs. And during the team’s 145 runs, Abdul Samad scored 15 runs with 1 four and 1 six.
From there, Henrik Klaasen took the team’s run to 204. He played a tornado innings of 63 runs off 29 balls with 8 sixes and got out on the fifth ball of the last over. Had he not been out, the match might have been won by Hyderabad. Only 4 runs were needed from the last two balls to win. However, they could not match that run count.