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Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 80 runs in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket on Thursday.
Kolkata, who won the title by defeating Hyderabad in the finals last year, got their second victory in 4 games and moved up to fifth place. Hyderabad have suffered their third defeat in 4 matches and have dropped to the bottom.
Despite losing the opener Quinton de Kock for 1 and Sunil Narine for 7 runs, Kolkata lost the toss and came to bat and scored 200 runs by losing 6 wickets in the scheduled 20 overs. With the help of the Indian batsmen, Kolkata managed to give a challenging score.
Captain Ajinkya Rahane scored 38 off 27 balls with 1 four and 4 sixes, Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 50 off 32 balls with 5 fours and 2 sixes, Venkatesh Iyer scored 60 runs off 29 balls with 7 fours and 3 sixes. Rinku Singh remained unbeaten on 32 runs by hitting 4 fours and 1 six off 17 balls. Kolkata replaced Spencer Johnson with Moeen Ali. But he didn't even get a chance to bowl if he didn't get into the top 8 batting line.
Supporters watching the match between Kolkata and Sunrisers at Zigri Sekuwa in Baluwatar.
After being bowled out for 120 runs in 16.4 overs, the team lost for the third consecutive match against Hyderabad, which is deep in batting. Hyderabad were under a lot of pressure after the top three batsmen Travis Head 4, Abhishek Sharma and Ishan Kishan were dismissed for 2 runs each. Head, who hit a boundary in the first ball of the innings, was caught by Vaibhav Arora in the next ball.
Harshit Rana dismissed Abhishek in the second over and Kishan was dismissed by Arora in the third over. Abhishek and Kishan were dismissed on successive balls. Nitishkumar Reddy 19, Kamindu Mendis 27 and Heinrich Klaasen hit 2 fours and a six while playing 21 balls and were dismissed for 33 runs. Captain Pat Cummins scored 14 runs off 15 balls and Aniket Burma was dismissed for 6 runs.
Arora and Varun Chakraborty took 3 wickets each from Kolkata. Arora, who came as an 'Impact Player', won the player of the match trophy by spending 29 runs with 1 maiden in 4 overs. Chakraborty spent 22 runs in 4 overs. Andre Russell took 2 wickets and Harshit Rana and Narine took 1 wicket each.
