New Delhi. Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 6 wickets in the 49th match of IPL 2021 in Dubai. Sunrisers Hyderabad captain Kane Williamson won the toss and elected to bat first. Hyderabad’s batsmen could not do anything special and the team was able to score 115 runs for 8 wickets in the stipulated 20 overs. Tim Southee, Shivam Mavi and Varun Chakraborty took 2 wickets each. KKR achieved the target in 19.4 overs for the loss of 4 wickets. Shubman Gill played a brilliant innings of 57 runs. With this win, Kolkata’s hopes of reaching the playoffs remain intact.
In this match, Hyderabad gave a chance to Jammu and Kashmir’s fast bowler Umran Malika. With this, 21-year-old Umran made his IPL debut. He has played only one T20 match so far and has taken 3 wickets. At the same time, Hyderabad has given Bangladesh’s left-handed batsman and spinner Shakib Al Hasan a chance in this important match. They are entering for the first time in the second phase of IPL 2021. Andre Russell is still injured.
Kolkata Knight Riders Playing 11: Shubman Gill, Venkatesh Iyer, Rahul Tripathi, Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan (c), Dinesh Karthik, Sunil Narine, Shakib Al Hasan, Tim Southee, Varun Chakraborty and Shivam Mavi
Sunrisers Hyderabad Playing 11: Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik and Siddharth Kaul.
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