Kamal Ghorui
NEW DELHI: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets in the Indian Premier League (IPL) on Sunday, ending SRH’s five-match winning run.Varun Chakravarthy took 3 for 36 and Sunil Narine claimed 2 for 31 as SRH were bowled out for 165 in 19 overs. KKR chased the target with 10 balls remaining to register their third straight win.Chakravarthy took at least two wickets for the fourth consecutive match. Narine also reached a milestone, entering the 200-wicket club in the IPL. Playing his 197th match, Narine, who also opened KKR’s bowling, joined Bhuvneshwar Kumar (215 wickets in 199 matches) and Yuzvendra Chahal (228 wickets in 182 matches) in the list.
Chasing 166, KKR lost Finn Allen in the fourth over after his 39 off 13 balls, when the score was 49. Captain Ajinkya Rahane made 43 off 36 balls and Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 59 off 47 balls. They added 84 runs for the second wicket in 11 overs.Rahane hit four fours and one six. Raghuvanshi hit five fours and two sixes. Rinku Singh finished the match with a four and remained unbeaten on 22 off 11 balls.Earlier, SRH started well after choosing to bat. They were 77 for 1 after the powerplay and 107 for 2 at the halfway stage, with Travis Head scoring 61 off 28 balls. Ishan Kishan made 42 off 29 balls.SRH then lost wickets quickly, losing nine wickets for 60 runs in the last 10 overs. It was the first time SRH were bowled out in IPL 2026.Kartik Tyagi took 2 for 30.Head hit nine fours and three sixes. He and Abhishek Sharma (15 off 10 balls) added 44 runs in 3.4 overs. Head also shared a 61-run stand with Kishan.Head scored four boundaries in Vaibhav Arora’s second over. He also hit a six and a four off Narine in the third over and three fours against Cameron Green in the fifth over.He was dismissed on the last ball of the ninth over by Chakravarthy. After that, SRH lost control of the innings.Heinrich Klaasen made 11 runs and was dismissed after Rovman Powell took a catch at deep midwicket off Cameron Green. He injured himself in the process. It was Klaasen’s lowest score of the season.
