Three wickets in first 13 balls turning point kolkata knight riders vs sunrisers hyderabad ipl 2025

New Delhi: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 80 runs at the Eden Gardens. KKR did not start well while batting first. Dickock was dismissed for just 1 run. Captain Ajinkya Rahane handled the innings by scoring 38 runs in 27 balls. He hit a four and four sixes. Young batsman Angkrish Raghuvanshi performed brilliantly. He scored 50 runs in 32 balls. His innings consisted of five fours and two sixes. Rahane and Raghuvanshi added 81 runs for the third wicket.

Iyer finished the innings

Venkatesh Iyer batted stormy in the end over. Iyer scored 60 runs in just 29 balls. He hit seven fours and three sixes. His strike rate was 206.89. Rinku Singh also scored 32 runs in 17 balls. Kolkata Knight Riders scored 200/6 in 20 overs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi gave the team a strong start by scoring 50 runs in 32 balls. This was his first T20 half -century.

The match ended in three overs

Chasing the target of 201 runs, SRH did not start well. Vaibhav Arora dismissed Travis Head in the first over. Harshit Rana took Abhishek Sharma’s wicket in the second over. Then Ishaan Kishan became a victim of Vaibhav on the very first ball of the third over. This made Hyderabad score 3 wickets for 9 runs. This was the turning point of the match. Pat Cummins team did not emerge from these shaking.

Middle order batsmen shattered under pressure. Heinrich Klassen showed some resistance. Klassen scored 33 runs in 21 balls. He hit two fours and two sixes. But SRH’s expectations ended after he was dismissed in the 15th over. Kamindu Mendis tried to continue the struggle by scoring 27 runs in 20 balls. But the run rate was very high. KKR bowlers kept constant pressure. Varun Chakraborty and Vaibhav Arora took three wickets each. Andre Russell also took two important wickets. SRH was all out for 120 runs in 16.4 overs.