2621dThe Report by Sirish Raghavan

Spinners, Yusuf lead Knight Riders into playoffs

With four spin options to call upon on a parched Eden Gardens pitch, Kolkata Knight Riders strangled Sunrisers Hyderabad to defend 171 and pull off a 22-run victory.

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

YK Pathan
YK Pathan
52(34) 3x4 - 2x6
Control %70%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 12 runs
  • 0x4 - 1x6
5 1 4 0 11 6 12 13
S Dhawan
S Dhawan
51(30) 4x4 - 3x6
Control %90%
  • Productive Shot
  • flick
  • 12 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
8 0 5 16 5 3 9 5

Best performances - Bowlers

SP Narine
SP Narine
O4
M0
R26
W3
Eco6.5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
DJ Hooda
DJ Hooda
O2
M0
R16
W2
Eco8
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W

Match Details

Toss

Sunrisers Hyderabad , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

16.00 start, First Session 16.00-17.30, Interval 17.30-17.50, Second Session 17.50-19.20

Match days

22 May 2016 - day/night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Kolkata Knight Riders 2, Sunrisers Hyderabad 0

Commentator: Deivarayan Muthu

END OF OVER:
20 | 5 Runs 1 Wkt | SRH: 149/8 (23 runs required, RR: 7.45)

  • Karn Sharma8 (11b)
  • Barinder Sran2 (2b)
  • Ankit Rajpoot3-0-21-1
  • Jason Holder3-0-21-0

7.30pm The pitch offered grip and turn, and Sunil Narine returned his best figures of the season - 3 for 26 - to lead his side to the playoffs. Kuldeep Yadav turned the ball either way and accounted for Dhawan and KW. The result also means that Mumbai are out of the tournament. Royal Challengers v Delhi Daredevils is now a direct shootout for the final playoff spot.

Gautam Gambhir: It was a must-win game for us. The credit goes to the entire group. Yusuf is taking his time and his role has changed from being a finisher last season. We are now giving him more overs. I thought that 160 would be a good total. We can take a lot of positives from this game. It was a playoff for us. Suddenly when you lose a player of Russell's caliber, it forces us to make changes.

Yusuf is the Man of the Match

Alpesh: "RCB top-two finish certain with a win"

Supradeep: "This last match just before the playoffs has revealed the very big void in the middle order of SRH batting line-up."

Hanish: "50 dot balls..in HYD innings..!"

RCBfan: "if RCB wins!! they moves to 2nd spot!! wow!!! they are doing what MI did last year!! and they chase!! another kohli knock cominggggggg............."

That is all we have for you from this game. Thanks for tuning in. Goodbye.

19.6
1
Rajpoot to Sharma, 1 run, length ball on middle, clouted to long-on. KKR make the playoffs
19.5
1
Rajpoot to Sran, 1 run, dragged behind square off the inside half of the bat as this was a near yorker on off
19.4
1
Rajpoot to Sharma, 1 run, full on middle, Karn steps away, throws his hands at it, carving it over backward point
19.3
1
Rajpoot to Sran, 1 run, full toss on middle, pumped to long-on
19.2
1
Rajpoot to Sharma, 1 run, full toss on middle, backs away, and slices to sweeper cover

Sran

19.1
W
Rajpoot to Kumar, OUT, full on middle, Bhuvneshwar can't get under it. He has a big whoosh at it and picks out Sathish at long-off

B Kumar c sub (R Sathish) b Rajpoot 5 (7m 4b 1x4 0x6) SR: 125

Rajpoot

Top bowling effort

40

Runs conceded by KKR bowlers in the last 6 overs when 63 runs were required. They also picked up 5 wickets. KKR are through to playoffs.

New Dhawan

114.44

Dhawan's strike rate in this IPL, before this match. In this match he scored at strike rate of 170 - 51 off 30 balls.

KKR's saviour

340

Runs scored by Yusuf Pathan batting at No. 4 or lower - most by any batsman in this IPL.

Experiments at No.3

8

No. of different players who have played for KKR at No.3 in this IPL. Pandey played 7 times and 7 others once. No other team used more than 5 players at that position.

KKR's opening failure

18

Average opening stand between Gambhir and Uthappa in the last 5 matches, including this match. In the first 9 matches, they averaged 41.67.

KKR at Eden

3-3

Win-loss record for KKR at their home ground, Eden Gardens, in this IPL. Their win-loss ratio of 1 is their second-worst here in any IPL season.