In rain-affected match played against Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders in Bangalore, Kolkata beat Hyderabad by seven wickets and qualify for qualifiers where they will be from Mumbai defeated in the qualifiers first. The winner of last season could not save his title. Earlier, losing the toss, the batsmen of Hyderabad players did not bat. The team could only score 128 runs in the last 20 overs. But the rain started only after the first innings ended. After resuming the game for three hours, when the match started again, KKR was given the target of 48 runs in 6 overs to win.
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Chasing a target, Chris Lynn and Robin Uthappa came together for the start of the innings for Kolkata, but in the first over, KKR lost two wickets in the first over. Captain Chris Lynn Naman Ojha caught on the third ball of the first over. After that, Pathan was run out without opening the account on the next ball. Uthappa also caught on the boundary on the first ball of the second over when he was caught by wicket. In this situation Captain Gautam Gambhir played his innings of 32 not out in 19 balls and brought his team to Qualifier 2. Kolkata achieved the target with 4 balls remaining. Ishant Jaggi on the other end remained unbeaten on 5 off 8 balls.
Due to rain, the match had to be stopped after 128 innings in 20 overs in Hyderabad. But after 3 hours, when the game started, Kolkata got the target of 48 runs in 6 overs. Kolkata, today, changed their opening pair by Robin Uthappa and Krell Lin. Parallel cap holder Bhuvneshwar bowled superb bowling and caught Chris Lane in the third ball and sent the pavilion back. Lynn scored 6 runs in 2 balls. After this, Yusuf Pathan, who came for the batting, Bhuvneshwar Kumar was run out on the next ball and he could not even open the account. In the first over, Kolkata scored 11 runs for two wickets. In the next over, Chris Jordan also ran Rabin Uthappa. He was caught by Dhawan on the ball of Jordan.
The decision to bowl first by winning KKR captain Gautam Gambhir was proved right. Earlier, batting from Hyderabad, the Kolkata bowlers kept the batsmen tied in the entire match. None of the Hyderabad batsmen could bat at all. Hyderabad skipper Warner stayed on the field for the 13th over but he could only score 37 runs in 35 balls. In addition, Kane Williamson and Vijay Shankar's bat went a little bit, but their efforts did not even make Hyderabad a bigger score. In the 20th over, Hyderabad could only score 128 runs, losing 7 wickets.
Earlier, batting first after losing the toss, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan started the innings for 25 runs in the first innings. But on the second ball of the fifth over, Shikhar tried to reach Umesh's ball across the boundary. But the ball jumped up on the bat and looked up at the ball. The wicketkeeper Uthappa did not make any mistake in the hiding. For the second wicket Warner and Ken Williamson tried to handle Hyderabad's innings with a 50-run second wicket stand but Hyderabad's two consecutive shocks started on the first ball of the last 13th over of the 12th over. Earlier, Williamson gave a catch to Surya Kumar Yadav on the ball to Nile. Williamson scored 24 runs. Then, on the second ball of 13th, Piyush Chawla bowled Warner and pushed Hyderabad to backfoot. Warner scored 37 runs.
When Warner got out, Hyderabad's score was 75 in 12.2 overs. After this Yuvraj Singh could not handle the faltering innings for batting. Chawla was caught by Yadav on the ball. Once again, the wickets of Yuvraj's dismissals were overcast. In the 19th over, Coulter-Nile made Victim Shankar his prey, and after this Chris Jordan did not even open the account. Finally, Hyderabad could only score 128 runs in 7 wickets. Kultter Nile and Umesh Yadav were the most successful bowler in Kolkata. Nayal got 3 for 20 and Umesh Yadav grabbed two for 21 runs. While Piyush Chawla got only one wicket.
Last eleven
Hyderabad: David Warner, Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson, Yuvraj Singh, Vijay Shankar, Naman Ojha, Chris Jordan, Bipul Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Siddharth Kaul
Kolkata: Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Gautam Gambhir, Robin Uthappa, Yusuf Pathan, Sun Kumar Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Nathan Colter Nile, Trent Bolt
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