Rahul Tripathi and Aiden Markram’s effortless batting display along with the pacers magnificent show formed the cornerstone of Sunrisers Hyderbad's comfortable seven-wicket vi𒁏ctory over Kolkata Knight Riders in their IPL match at Brabourne Stadium on Friday.
The SRH pace unit comprising the ꧟likes of T Nat𝓡arajan (3/37), Umran Malik (2/27), Marco Jansen (1/26) and Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/37) restricted KKR for 175 for 8.
Tripathi, who smashed 71 off 37, and Aiden Markram (68 not out 🍃of 36) then produced hostile knocks to take SRH to their third successive win with 13 balls to spare
For🌺 KKR, Nitish Rana scored 54 while Andre Russell was unbeate꧙n on 49.
SRH now have three wins from fivꦆe games while it was KKR's third loss in six games꧂.
With the green track not aiding the spinner🍸s, Sunrisers' Tripathi took the KKR's s🅠pin-heavy bowling unit to the cleaners.
Playing ℱagainst his pre𓆏vious franchise, Tripathi smashed Varun Chakravarthy for a four followed by two back-to-back sixes in the eighth over, that yielded 18 runs. He brought his maiden fifty this season off just 21 balls.
Tripathy found an able ally in Markram, who smashed six fours and four sixes and when the formღer was out he took the onus upon himself to take his side over the line.
Earlierꦏ opting to field, So🌼uth African Jansen used the bounce and swing on offer really well to draw first blood as he sent Aaron Finch (7), who is playing his first match of the season, back to the hut in the second over. Natarajan then bowled a sensational fifth over, snaring two wickets.
Natarajan first bowled a brilliant length ball, pitching just outside off to account for Venkatesh Iyer (6), who looked unsettled during his stay, with the flamboyant Sunil Narine (6) following his teammate a couple balꦍls later as KKR slumped to 31 for 3.
Kane Williamson introduced spin but left-armer Jagad𝄹eesha Suchith (1/32) looked rusty and struggled with his line.
Young Malik then struck twin blow🧔s, snapping the wickets of Shreyas Iyer (28) in the 10th over and Sheldon Jackson (7).
Noticing Iyer, who looked uncomfortable facing Malik’s raw pace, shuffling across the pitch, th💦e 22-year-old fired a scorching 148.8kmph yorker in the blockhole to cut short the K♛night Riders captain's innings.
However, Rana kept the score board ticking, hitting singles and boundaries alike in his 36-ba♍ll knoc𓆏k.
Rana smashed six fours and two maximums. He was involved in🌠 39-run stands with skipper Iyer and Russell each.
However, his stay in the middle was cut short by Natarajan in the 18th over as SRH broke 🤡the potentially dange🔥rous partnership.
Russell, whoꦛse 25-ball innings was laced with four boundaries and as many six, including two in the final over. The West Indian helped KKR add 55 runs in the last five overs.
