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New Delhi: The 47th match of IPL 2023 (IPL 2023) was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Kolkata Knight Riders (SRH vs KKR) in Hyderabad. KKR defeated Hyderabad by 5 runs. Batting first after winning the toss, he scored 171 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Chasing the target, Hyderabad could only score 166 runs for 8 wickets.
Batting first, KKR got off to a poor start. Gurbaz was dismissed for nil in the second over. Jason Roy also failed to play a big innings and was dismissed for 20 runs. Venkatesh Iyer contributed 7 runs. This was followed by a partnership of 61 runs between
Rinku Singh and captain Nitish Rana. Rinku Singh scored 46 runs and the captain scored 42 runs. Russell scored 24 runs. Marco Jansson and Natarajan took two wickets each for Hyderabad. Four bowlers got 1 wicket each.
Chasing the target, Hyderabad got off to a bright start, but soon Hyderabad lost their first wicket. Mayank Agarwal was dismissed for 18 runs on the score of 29. Abhishek Sharma also couldn’t do anything special and he too returned to the pavilion with a score of 9. After this, the captain and Henry Klassen shared a partnership of 70 runs.
Klaasen was dismissed for 36 runs. The captain contributed 41 runs. In the end, Samad scored fast runs, but could not win the team. For Kolkata, Shardul Thakur and Vaibhav Arod took two wickets each. With this win, KKR has kept their hopes of making the playoffs alive.
