Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad in super over to win the match and take home all 2 points. The game looked over for them after David Warner plundered Andre Russell for three consecutive boundaries to take the equation to 4 runs from 2 balls. But Russell came back with two good balls and the match headed into a super over. Lockie Ferguson then continued his good run and bowled Warner in the first ball before doing the same to Abdul Samad. KKR needed 3 runs to win and Karthik and captain Morgan took them home with 2 deliveries remaining.
Dinesh Karthik and Eoin Morgan take 2 runs off a leg-bye to win the super over and clinch the tie. Morgan opened the scoring with a sweep in the second delivery and Karthik took 2 from a leg-bye two deliveries later to seal the win
KKR needs 3 runs to win the super over and add to their tally. it was terrific bowling from Lockie Ferguson who took 3 wickets in the match and 2 more in the super over. Rashid Khan to bowl the super over for SRH. Dinesh Karthik and Eoin Morgan are at the crease for KKR.
OUT! Lockie Ferguson strikes again and clean bowls Abdul Samad with a full delivery
OUT! Lockie Ferguson strikes first ball. He bowls David Warner with a length delivery.
Its a Super Over!! SRH needed 18 runs from the final over and David Warner smashed Andre Russell for three successive boundaries to make it 4 runs from 2 balls. But Russell comes back with two great deliveries and the match has gone into a super over.
OUT! Abdul Samad departs after a brilliant boundary relay catch from Lockie Ferguson and Shubman Gill. Ferguson first did a brilliant job to take the catch and then had the awareness to pass it to Gill before going over the boundary. Abdul Samad c Shubman Gill b Shivam Mavi 23(15)
Lockie Ferguson bowls another tidy over and give away only seven runs in his final over. Ferguson ends his spell with 3/15 and Sunrisers need 30 from the final 2 overs to win the match.
OUT! Pat Cummins gets his first wicket in seven matches. Vijay Shankar is the man dismissed. A crucial wicket for KKR as Shankar departs for 7 runs. A short delivery from Cummins and Shankar wanted to pull but the pace did him and he edges the ball straight to Shubman Gill at backward point. Shankar c Shubman Gill b Cummins 7(10)
OUT! Lockie Ferguson is on fire here against Sunrisers Hyderabad. The New Zealand pacer picks his third wicket with a terrific yorker. Manish Pandey departs bowled for just 6 runs. Manish Pandey b Ferguson 6(7)
SRH vs KKR Live Score Updates: Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders find themselves contesting for the fourth and final playoffs berth with the top three all but sealed in Indian Premier League (IPL) season 13. Delhi Capitals lead the pack with 14 points from nine games while defending champions Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) are on 12 points each. Mumbai also have a game in hand. Both MI and RCB are at least four points clear of the rest below them leaving the other teams to mainly fight for the final playoffs berth. That brings us to the KKR vs SRH match. Sunil Narine Cleared by Indian Premier League Suspect Bowling Action Committee, Likely to Play in SRH vs KKR IPL 2020 Match.
KKR are on eight points from as many games while Sunriders Hyderabad have also played eight but won only three. Both teams come into this match on the back of consecutive defeats in their previous two matches and need to win to keep themselves in contention for a top-two finish. SRH, champions in 2016, lost to Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) in their previous two games after dominating and being in command in both the matches. They have also won only one in their last four games. SRH vs KKR, IPL 2020 Live Cricket Streaming: Watch Free Telecast of Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders on Star Sports and Disney+Hotstar Online.
Kolkata Knight Riders, on the other, underwent a change in captaincy with Dinesh Karthik relinquishing his role to focus on batting and handing over the captaincy to England white-ball skipper Eoin Morgan. But the change in leadership couldn’t bring a change in fortune and KKR suffered another huge eight-wicket loss against Mumbai Indians having already conceded an 82-run defeat to RCB a game before.
Morgan and co., will, however, be confident against David Warner’s side having beaten them by seven wickets last month in the reverse IPL 2020 fixture. KKR also lead SRH 11-7 on head-to-head records and have enjoyed an upper hand on the Orange Army in Indian Premier League history.
Squads
Kolkata Knight Riders: Rahul Tripathi, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w), Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Chris Green, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy, Prasidh Krishna, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Siddhesh Lad, Nikhil Naik, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Ali Khan, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Tom Banton, Manimaran Siddharth.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(w), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Rashid Khan, Shahbaz Nadeem, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan, Khaleel Ahmed, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Abhishek Sharma, Prithvi Raj Yarra, Abdul Samad, Sanjay Yadav, Basil Thampi, Virat Singh, Fabian Allen, Billy Stanlake, Bavanaka Sandeep, Jason Holder, Mohammad Nabi, Wriddhiman Saha.