KOLKATA: Andre Russell smashed an explosive 49 to spoil David Warner's scintillating IPL comeback as Kolkata Knight Riders pulled off a dramatic six-wicket win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday.
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Needing 53 runs from final 3 overs, the tough Jamaican changed the course of the match together with his big-hitting towards Siddharth Kaul, creaming off 19 runs from that over.
He retained the strike by taking a sensible unmarried and persisted his assault on Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who too bled 21 runs within the penultimate over as KKR sealed the 182-run chase with two balls to spare.
Russell hammered 4 sixes and an equal choice of barriers in run series that learn 6-6-1-Four-1-Four-6-Four-Zero-6-1. Youngster Shubman Gill (18 now not out) completed the formalities with two sixes off Shakib-Al-Hasan.
Promoted to open with Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana made full use of the chance and saved them within the hunt with a 47-ball 68.
But he departed in a while after a 12-minute interruption caused by tower lights failure.
The momentum slowly shifted in favour of SRH but Russell in a metter of minutes changed the complexion of the match.
Earlier, Warner made a good looking comeback with a scintillating 85, serving to his side succeed in a difficult 181/3.
Putting at the back of the embarrassing ball tampering scandal, that saved him out final year, the Aussie smashed 3 sixes and 9 barriers in his 53-ball knock.
India World Cup possible Vijay Shankar also made a fine go back to the Orange Army with a quick-fire unbeaten 24-ball 40 (2x4, 2x6) following Warner's go out within the 16th over.
Warner's 37th IPL fifty also made him the primary cricketer in IPL to have most 50-plus scores (40) ahead of Virat Kohli (38) as the Aussie also has 3 centuries.
Jonny Bairstow complemented Warner neatly by giving him the maximum strike as the duo raced to 100-mark in 10.five overs of their large 118-run opening partnership.
Having opted to bowl, the in a different way disciplined KKR assault appeared clueless towards the rampaging Warner who was let off twice whilst on scores of 21 and 68 by Robin Uthappa and skipper Dinesh Karthik respectively.
Karthik's captaincy was over-defensive and misplaced the evaluation to Warner early in the second one over, whilst SRH made full use of the DRS by overturning a call towards Bairstow.
There was no looking back for Warner who batted as if he was by no means out of motion and pierced the gaps relaxed with successive barriers towards Piyush Chawla and Sunil Narine to unsettle the in a different way disciplined KKR spinners.
Warner brought his fifty with a six towards Andre Russell and then went directly to smack India frontline spinner Kuldeep Yadav for his 2d six.
Such was the Warner assault that 4 of the common KKR bowlers including the frontline spin duo of Sunil Narine (Zero/29 in 3 overs) and Kuldeep (Zero/18 in 2 overs) did not even bowl their full quota of four overs.
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Needing 53 runs from final 3 overs, the tough Jamaican changed the course of the match together with his big-hitting towards Siddharth Kaul, creaming off 19 runs from that over.
He retained the strike by taking a sensible unmarried and persisted his assault on Bhuvneshwar Kumar, who too bled 21 runs within the penultimate over as KKR sealed the 182-run chase with two balls to spare.
Russell hammered 4 sixes and an equal choice of barriers in run series that learn 6-6-1-Four-1-Four-6-Four-Zero-6-1. Youngster Shubman Gill (18 now not out) completed the formalities with two sixes off Shakib-Al-Hasan.
Promoted to open with Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana made full use of the chance and saved them within the hunt with a 47-ball 68.
But he departed in a while after a 12-minute interruption caused by tower lights failure.
The momentum slowly shifted in favour of SRH but Russell in a metter of minutes changed the complexion of the match.
Earlier, Warner made a good looking comeback with a scintillating 85, serving to his side succeed in a difficult 181/3.
Putting at the back of the embarrassing ball tampering scandal, that saved him out final year, the Aussie smashed 3 sixes and 9 barriers in his 53-ball knock.
India World Cup possible Vijay Shankar also made a fine go back to the Orange Army with a quick-fire unbeaten 24-ball 40 (2x4, 2x6) following Warner's go out within the 16th over.
Warner's 37th IPL fifty also made him the primary cricketer in IPL to have most 50-plus scores (40) ahead of Virat Kohli (38) as the Aussie also has 3 centuries.
Jonny Bairstow complemented Warner neatly by giving him the maximum strike as the duo raced to 100-mark in 10.five overs of their large 118-run opening partnership.
Having opted to bowl, the in a different way disciplined KKR assault appeared clueless towards the rampaging Warner who was let off twice whilst on scores of 21 and 68 by Robin Uthappa and skipper Dinesh Karthik respectively.
Karthik's captaincy was over-defensive and misplaced the evaluation to Warner early in the second one over, whilst SRH made full use of the DRS by overturning a call towards Bairstow.
There was no looking back for Warner who batted as if he was by no means out of motion and pierced the gaps relaxed with successive barriers towards Piyush Chawla and Sunil Narine to unsettle the in a different way disciplined KKR spinners.
Warner brought his fifty with a six towards Andre Russell and then went directly to smack India frontline spinner Kuldeep Yadav for his 2d six.
Such was the Warner assault that 4 of the common KKR bowlers including the frontline spin duo of Sunil Narine (Zero/29 in 3 overs) and Kuldeep (Zero/18 in 2 overs) did not even bowl their full quota of four overs.
IPL: Russell leads KKR to dramatic win against SRH
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