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IPL 2019: Live Cricket Score and Updates of Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad in Indian Premier League.
Updated : Mar 24, 2019, 08:32 PM IST
Live Cricket Score, IPL 2019: Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by six wickets to make a winning start to their IPL campaign at Eden Gardens on Sunday.
Comeback-man David Warner struck 85 off 53 balls and shared a 118-run stand for the first wicket with wicket-keeper batsman Jonny Bairstow (39). Vijay Shankar contributed unbeaten 40 in Sunrisers' total.
Andre Russell played a whirlwind unbeaten knock of 49-runs to script his side's dramatic win after Nitish Rana scored 68 at top of the batting order. Shubman Gill also made a contribution with two sixes in the final over.
Kolkata Knight Riders vs Sunrisers Hyderabad (KKR vs SRH): Scorecard
Earlier. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and decided to bowl first against Sunrisers Hyderabad. Kane Williamson, who led Sunrisers Hyderabad to runners-up finish the season, missed the match and Bhuvneshwar Kumar led the team in this match.
IPL 2019 KKR vs SRH: The story of the match in pictures
Here is how it happened:
REVIEW LOST
Piyush Chawla hits David Warner on the pads. However, the huge appeal gets no response from the Umpire. Karthik went for the DRS after a long chat with Chawla. Replays confirm that it was pitched way outside leg and KKR lose a review.
SRH 16/0 after 2 overs (David Warner 12, Bairstow 0)
SRH XI: David Warner, Jonny Bairstow (wk), Manish Pandey, Deepak Hooda, Shakib Al Hasan, Vijay Shankar, Yusuf Pathan, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar (c), Siddarth Kaul, Sandeep Sharma.
KKR XI: Chris Lynn, Sunil Narine, Robin Uthappa, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik (c, wk), Andre Russell, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Prasidh Krishna
Dinesh Karthik won the toss and Kolkata Knight Riders will field first. Kane Williamson will not play for SRH and Bhuvneshwar Kumar will lead the side in his absence.
.@DineshKarthik wins the toss and opts to bowl first against the @SunRisers in Match 2 of #VIVOIPL#KKRvSRH pic.twitter.com/krYPFw5rOR
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) March 24, 2019
SRH vs KKR Team (from):
Kolkata Knight Riders: Dinesh Karthik (c), Robin Uthappa, Chris Lynn, Shubman Gill, Andre Russell, Carlos Brathwaite, Sunil Narine, Piyush Chawla, Kuldeep Yadav, Nikhil Naik, Joe Denly, Shrikant Mundhe, Nitish Rana, Sandeep Warrier, Prasidh Krishna, Lockie Ferguson, Harry Gurney, KC Cariappa and Yarra Prithviraj.
Sunrisers Hyderabad: Kane Willilamson (c), Manish Pandey, Martin Guptill, Ricky Bhui, David Warner, Deepak Hooda, Mohammad Nabi, Yusuf Pathan, Shakib Al Hasan, Abhishek Sharma, Vijay Shankar, Sreevats Gowsami, Jonny Bairstow, Wriddhiman Saha, Siddarth Kaul, Khaleel Ahmed, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Basil Thampi, Billy Stanlake, T Natarajan, Sandeep Sharma, Shahbaz Nadeem.