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New Delhi: With explosive half-centuries from Rahul Tripathi (71) and Aidan Markram (68 not out), Sunrisers Hyderabad completed a hat-trick of winning the tournament by defeating Kolkata Knight Riders by seven wickets in a one-sided fashion in the 25th match of IPL 2022 on Friday. .
Kolkata posted a challenging 175 for eight in 20 overs, while Hyderabad scored 176 for three in 17.5 overs with 13 balls to spare, while Kolkata suffered a third loss in six matches. fell. Rahul hit four fours and six sixes in his 71 off 37 balls. Markram hit six fours and four sixes in his unbeaten 68 off 36 balls.
Chasing a big target, Hyderabad lost the wickets of Abhishek Sharma and captain Kane Williamson in the powerplay. Abhishek scored three and Williamson made 17. Rahul Tripathi took the lead after two wickets fell for 39 runs. Rahul did not spare the mystery spinners of Kolkata. Rahul scored 18 runs in Varun Chakraborty’s over including two sixes. He scored a total of 10 runs including a six in Sunil Narine’s over. Hyderabad’s score became 113 for two in 13 overs.
Like Rahul, Aidan Markram also opened his hand and hit three fours in the last three balls of the 14th over of Umesh Yadav’s innings. In the next over, Rahul hit a six off Andre Russell but on the next ball he was caught by Venkatesh Iyer near the boundary. Rahul’s wicket fell on the score of 133. Rahul hit four fours and six sixes in his 71 off 37 balls.
After Rahul was dismissed, Markram hit a four and a six off Chakraborty’s balls. Now in the last four overs, Hyderabad needed 23 runs to win. Markram completed his fifty in 31 balls. Markram hit four consecutive deliveries and two sixes off Pat Cummins and settled the match in the 18th over.
Earlier after losing the toss and opting to bat first, the Kolkata team did not get a good start. Despite this, the team set a challenging target of 176 runs in front of Hyderabad on the basis of the explosive innings of Nitish and Russell, but their bowlers could not defend this score.
Kolkata lost early wickets. The situation was that by the end of the first powerplay (six overs), Kolkata lost three wickets for 38 runs. Aaron Finch, playing the first match of the season, became the victim of Marco Yanson on the score of 11. After that T Natarajan took the wickets of Venkatesh Iyer on the score of 25 and Sunil Narine who got promoted to number four on the score of 31.
Captain Shreyas Iyer tried to handle the innings. Together with Nitish Rana, he carried forward the innings intelligently. There was a 49-run partnership for the fourth wicket between the two that Hyderabad’s speed master Umran Malik bowled Shreyas on the score of 70. From here Nitish took the responsibility on his shoulders and handled the team in the event of a crisis. They put on a 33-run partnership with Sheldon Jackson, but Sheldon returned to the pavilion after losing his wicket at the score of 103. After this the show of Nitish and Russell was shown.
The bowlers of Hyderabad came in front of the fast batting of both the batsmen. While Nitish made a half-century of 54 runs off 36 balls with the help of six fours and two sixes, Russell scored an unbeaten 49 off 25 balls with the help of four fours and four sixes. Shreyas contributed 28 runs in 25 balls with the help of three fours.
Natarajan was the most successful bowler for Hyderabad. He took the highest three wickets for 37 runs in four overs, while Umran Malik took two wickets. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Yanson and Jagdish Suchith also took one wicket each.
