Andre Russell powers Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by a big margin of 54 runs.
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The 61st Match of the Indian Premier League 2022 was played today bitween Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad at Maharashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Pune, in which Andre Russell powers Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by a big margin of 54 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders batted first after winning the toss, started the inning not very well, Venkatesh Iyer and Ajinkya Rahane came to start the inning, the wicket has gone for 17 runs in last ball of the 2nd over, next batsman Nitish Rana came to bat handled the inning with Ajinkya Rahane, the second wicket has gone for 65 runs in 7.3 over, Nitish Rana dismissed after playing a brilliant quick inning of 26 runs with the help of 3 sixes and 1 boundary in just 16 balls, next batsman Shreyas Iyer came to bat, after few moments the third wicket has also gone for 72 runs in last ball of the 8th over, Ajinkya Rahane dismissed after scoring 28 runs in 24 balls, followed by Sam Billings came to bat, and played well with Shreyas Iyer, the fourth wicket has gone for 83 runs in last ball of the 10th over, Shreyas Iyer dismissed for 15 runs in 9 balls, next natsman Rinku Singh came to bat and he dismissed just for 5 runs as fifth wicket in 11.3 over, the team score was 94 runs, followed by Andre Russell came to bat handled the inning and played a very brilliant half-century partnership of 63 runs with Sam Billings, the sixth wicket has gone for 157 runs in 18.5 over, Sam Billings dismissed after playing a brilliant inning of 34 runs with the help of 1 six and 3 boundaries in just 29 balls, next batsman Sunil Narine came to bat, and he remains unbeaten for 1 run with Andre Russell, and Andre Russell played a very brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 49 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 3 boundaries in just 28 balls. In this way, Kolkata Knight Riders scored 177 runs for the loss of 6 wickets in 20 overs and set a target of 178 runs in front of Sunrisers Hyderabad.
Sunrisers Hyderabad's bowler Umran Malik performed very brilliant bowling, he took 3 wickets for 33 runs, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Jansen, and T Natarajan 1-1 wicket.
Sunrisers Hyderabad chasing 178 runs in the second inning they could manage just 123 runs after losing 8 wickets in 20 overs and lost the match by 54 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad start the inning not very well,
Abhishek Sharma played a very brilliant quick inning of 43 runs with the help of 2 sixes and 4 boundaries in just 28 balls, Aiden Markram also played a brilliant inning of 32 runs with the help of 3 sixes in just 25 balls, Shashank Singh 11 runs in 12 balls, apart from this no batsman could play well, Kane Williamson dismissed just for 9 runs, Rahul Tripathi 9 runs, Bhuvneshwar Kumar remains unbeaten for 6 runs, Washington Sundar dismissed for 4 runs, Umran Malik remains unbeaten for 3 runs, Nicholas Pooran 2 runs, and Marco Jansen 1 run. In this way, Sunrisers Hyderabad could manage just 123 runs by losing 8 wickets in 20 overs and losing the match by a big margin of 54 runs.
Kolkata Knight Riders' bowlers performed very brilliant bowling, Andre Russell took 3 wickets for 22 runs, Tim Southee took 2 wickets for 23 runs, Umesh Yadav, Sunil Narine, and Varun Chakravarthy got 1-1 wicket.
Kolkata Knight Riders' all-rounder Andre Russell selected the best player of the match, he performed very brilliant batting well as well also in bowling, played a very brilliant quick unbeaten inning of 49 runs with the help of 4 sixes and 3 boundaries in just 28 balls, and took 3 wickets just for 22 runs.
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