Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) beat Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) by six wickets to keep their play-offs hopes alive in the ongoing season of IPL 2021.
Chasing a tricky 116 for victory, KKR reached 119 for 4 in 19.4 overs overs to register their six win from 13 matches. Opener Shubman Gill top-scored with 57 off 51 balls while Nitish Rana made 25 from 33 deliveries.
For SRH, Jason Holder was the pick of the bowlers with two wickets for 32 runs, while Rashid Khan and Siddarth 👍Kaul bagged one wicket♔ each.
With this win, KKR now have 12 points to their name with a matchꦛ left to be played.
Earlier, already ruled out of the tournament, SRH posted just 115/8 on the board after opting to 🐓bat first.
Captain Kane Williamson top-scored with 26 while Abdul Samad made 25 in a mediocre show. For KKR, fast bowler Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi and mystery spinner Varun Chakravarthy grabbed two wickets apiece while Shakib Al Hasan claimed one scalp along with a game-cha꧙nging r☂un out of Williamson.
Here’s how Twitter reacted:
Adding +2️⃣ to the tally! 💪
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
has their fate in their own hands…Win the next game and script a fabulous turnaround. If you lose the next game, you’d hope that there’s a 3-4 way tie on 12. No team can go past them on🥃 NRR irrespective of how big their remaining win is.
— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash)
KKR in the race to playoffs:
2019 – lost out to SRH on NRR with 12 pts
2020 – lost out to SRH and RCB on NRR with 14 pts
2021 – ??
— Anant Tyagi (@anantyagi_)
David Warner got disappointed after SRH's loss. Hard times for him and SRH, first for dropped from the side and his team isn't doing well too.
— Mufaddal Vohra (@mufaddal_vohra)
4th win for in 6 games at UAE in and moves to 12 points from 13 matches with a good NRR – this has been great comeback by Knight Riders after a poor first leg.
— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns)
Important win for KKR.
If KKR win v RR they'll surely be through because of good NRR
MI will qualify 🐠if th♎ey win v RR, SRH & if KKR lose v RR
RR will qualify if they win both their games
PBKS can reach 12 points⛄ i꧑f they win v CSK. But their NRR may not be enough
— Sarang Bhalerao (@bhaleraosarang)
A gritty knock from 💪
— KolkataKnightRiders (@KKRiders)
Korbo 👏 Lorbo 👏 Jeetbo 👏 fans, join the chant as you🐽r knights have just won ! 💜
— Star Sports (@StarSportsIndia)
Excellent innings from Shubman⛄ Gill on this difficult pitch to bat on, showed his class and composure. KKR needed this. Well deserved 50 finally.
— sohom ʲᵃʷᵃⁿ ᵉʳᵃ (@AwaaraHoon)
Superb way to comeback🔥🔥 conceded just 20 runs from his 4 overs and took a wi𓆏cket and a superb run out too.
— Shakhawat Hossain Jiqu (@shakhawatjiqu)
Su🧸perb run-out by off his own bowling to send b🔥ack SRH captain Williamson.
— AHM Nayeem (@AhmNayeem49)
Man of the Match – Shubman Gill 💜💜
— R (@itzzRashmi)
