KKR beat SRH by 80 runs within the IPL 2025.© BCCI/IPL
Kolkata Knight Riders registered an enormous 80-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad to leap to fifth spot within the 10-team IPL 2025 factors desk. Within the match on the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Thursday, every part fell in place for KKR as they overpowered SunRisers Hyderabad. SRH are presently final within the IPL 2025 factors desk. So far as the very best run-scorer is worried, Lucknow Tremendous Giants’ Nicholas Pooran holds the Orange Cap with a tally of 189. Chennai Tremendous Kings’ Noor Ahmad holds the Purple Cap with 9 scalps.
Venkatesh Iyer answered his critics with a match-winning 60 off 29 balls, propelling Kolkata Knight Riders to a convincing 80-run win within the Indian Premier League on Thursday. Angkrish Raghuvanshi’s elegant 50 (32b, 5×4, 2×6) in an 81-run stand with skipper Ajinkya Rahane (38 off 27) laid the muse, whereas Iyer and Rinku Singh (32 not out off 17b) offered the late fireworks with a blistering 91-run partnership (41b) to carry KKR to 200/6 — their highest whole of the season. Seamer Vaibhav Arora set the tone by eradicating the damaging Travis Head (4) and Ishan Kishan (2) in successive overs to return with spectacular figures of 4-1-29-3.
Harshit Rana dismissed Abhishek Sharma (2), leaving SRH reeling at 9/3 in 2.1 overs, whereas Andre Russell and Sunil Narine additionally chipped in with a wicket every to make it 66/5 inside 10 overs.
Varun Chakravarthy then cleaned up the decrease order taking two wickets in two balls en path to his 4-0-22-3 as SRH crumbled to 120 all out — their explosive batting lineup lasting simply 16.4 overs.
The defending champions thus returned to successful methods after dropping two of their first three matches and can subsequent face Lucknow Tremendous Giants on Tuesday.
In the meantime, SRH, enduring their third straight defeat, head dwelling to tackle Gujarat Titans on Sunday.
With PTI inputs
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