In the 71st match of IPL 2024, Kolkata Knight Riders and Sun Risers Hyderabad came together in a face off at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Pat Cummins’ Sunrisers Hyderabad had won the toss and opted to bat first against KKR. The SRH team managed to score 159 runs in 19.6 overs.
KKR managed to win the match by scoring 164 runs, while losing only 2 wickets in the process. Shreyas Iyer and Venkatesh Iyer both scored half centuries of their own, taking their team to victory.
“We weren’t where we wanted with the bat” -Cummins
Addressing the audience at the post match ceremony, SRH captain Pat Cummins accepted the team’s bad performance and said T20 matches do have some downside as well.
“Yeah we will try to put this behind quickly, good thing we will have a crack at it (second qualifier). You have those days in T20 cricket where things doesn’t quite work out. We weren’t where we wanted with the bat and obviously couldn’t do much with the ball. Felt that extra batting was important (picking the impact sub) on this wicket.”
The Aussie also praised the KKR bowlers, who managed to take all the SRH wickets while giving out only 159 runs.
“Thought KKR bowled really well, there was a little bit in it early on and the surface got better. We all have played enough cricket, and going to a new venue (Chennai) helps us as well, so we gotta keep this behind and move on.” Cummins added.
Travis Head missed catch and lost opportunity
In the second innings of today’s match, KKR was batting. On T. Natarajan’s bowl, Shreyas Iyer was batting in the 11th over of the match.
On the 10.1th over, Shreyas Iyer made a shot, and Travis Head could’ve made a catch but he dropped it. While the ball gave not runs to the KKR team, Shreyas’ wickets got saved and he went on to score a half century for the team.
Mitchell Starc became the Player Of The Match, as he took Travis Head’s wicket in the powerplay on Head’s second bowl of the evening. Stark also took Shahbaz Ahmed’s wicket on the first ball.
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