Kolkata Knight Riders
A team of defending champions Kolkata Knight Riders under the captaincy of Ajinkya Rahane have registered their second win this season with 80 runs against last season’s runner -up Sunrisers Hyderabad in IPL 2025 by 80 runs. In this match, KKR’s team batted first after losing the toss and scored 200 runs at the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs. In KKR’s batting, Venkatesh Iyer played an important aggressive innings of 60 runs. In response, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s team was reduced to 120 runs in 16.4 overs. Vaibhav Arora impressed everyone in bowling from KKR.
KKR quickly gave Hyderabad’s initial shock
The Sunrisers Hyderabad team started losing wickets from the first over to chase the score of 201 runs against Kolkata Knight Riders, in which Travis Head was sent to the pavilion on a private score of 4 with Vaibhav Arora. While Abhishek Sharma became a victim of Harshit Rana on the personal score of 2, Ishaan Kishan was also dismissed for just 2 runs. In the first 6 overs, where the team of Sunrisers Hyderabad managed to score only 33 runs, they also lost three wickets. Nitish Reddy and Camendu Mendis together tried to handle Sunrisers Hyderabad’s innings but Reddy was dismissed by 19 runs. At the same time, Mendis scored 27 runs.
Heinrich Klassen carried forward the innings of Sunrisers Hyderabad from one end, but due to increasing wickets and increasing pressure of run speed from the other side, he too was dismissed for just 33 runs. In this match for KKR, Vaibhav Arora and Varun Chakraborty got amazing in this match in which both of them took three wickets, while Andra Russell managed to take 2 wickets.
Venkatesh Iyer and Angkrish Raghuvanshi showed amazing with the bat
Talking about KKR’s batting in this match against Sunrisers Hyderabad team, Venkatesh Iyer and young player Angkrish Raghuvanshi were wonderful in which Venkatesh scored a great innings of 60 runs with the help of three sixes and 7 fours in 29 balls. Apart from this, Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s bat also saw a great innings of 50 runs. In the match for Hyderabad, Shami, Pat Cummins, Harshal Patel, Zeeshan Ansari and Kamndu Mendis took 1–1 wickets.
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