Mumbai: It was a thrilling match as booth team was looking to get that momentum to reach playoffs. Batting first KKR started off well as Sunil Narayan scored 25 off just 8 balls with the strike rate of 300+ failed to convert it into a big score.
Chris Lynn was building his innings with doubles and singles as Shubhman Gill and Nitish Rana failed to score today lost their wickets when their team needed the most.
Missing his for captain Dinesh Karthik again failed to score run disappointed his team. While everyone was waiting for Russell to show some power hitting shots but today he failed to entertain as Bhuvneshwar Kumar planned well to dismiss the dangerous man he managed to score 15 of 9 balls. Lynn scored 51 runs but lost his wicket at 18th over of the innings.
It was a small cameo by Rinku Singh scored 30 runs off 25 balls by which team managed to score 159 runs with the loss of 8 wickets.
For SRH Khaleel Ahmed took 3 wickets in his 4 over spell, following Bhuvenshwar provided 2 wickets for his side.
Chasing the target of 160 runs it seemed easy for SRH as both the openers were informed David Warner and Jonny Bairstow played so well scored 70+ runs in powerplay itself, due to which SRH easily managed to score the runs. Openers had 100 + runs partnership for that side.
David Warner scored 67 runs off 38 balls with the strike rate of 176 but lost his wicket to Prithvi Raj, whereas Jonny Bairstow scored 80* off 43 runs with 186 runs. SRH lost their first wicket at 131.
As both, the openers played a wonderful knock SRH registered fifth game out of 10 matches and moved towards a 4th position with 10 points on the table.
This was one of the worst performance by KKR as they have lost 5 matches consistently.
