KKR vs SRH, 3rd Match at Chennai, Apr 11 2021, Indian Premier League

RESULT
3rd Match (N), Chennai, April 11, 2021, Indian Premier League

KKR won by 10 runs

Player Of The Match
80 (56)
nitish-rana
Cricinfo's MVP
85.45 ptsImpact List
rashid-khan
Match centre 
Scores: Chandan Duorah | Comms: @saurabh_42
Scorecard summary
Kolkata Knight Riders 187/6(20 overs)
80 (56)
2/24 (4)
Sunrisers Hyderabad 177/5(20 overs)
Cricinfo’s Most Valuable Players of the Match
PLAYERTeam
TI
Runs
I. Runs
B. Impact
Bowl
I. Wkts
Bo. Impact
SRH85.45--02/243.1885.45
KKR77.5980(56)79.6477.59--0
KKR69.353(29)62.3969.3--0
KKR65.13--02/353.2165.13
SRH60.6114(11)10.366.542/322.3854.07
end of over 2011 runs
SRH: 177/5CRR: 8.85 
Manish Pandey61 (44b 2x4 3x6)
Abdul Samad19 (8b 2x6)
Andre Russell 3-0-32-1
Pat Cummins 4-0-30-1

11.25 pm:. Right, that brings us to the end of our coverage for this game. Of course the IPL caravan has just started rolling, so we're here throughout. See you all tomorrow. Till then, on behalf of Varun Shetty, Deiva Muthu and Chandan Duorah, this is Saurabh Somani signing off.

Nitish Rana is the Man of the Match: I thought the ball was in my slot (first ball, off Bhuvneshwar) and luckily I got a four. My game-plan is always that if the ball is in my slot I'll try to hit it. I was backing myself and looking to hit balls. I've been playing spin since childhood, so in a way, it's in my blood.

Eoin Morgan: Delighted. The build up to the tournament has been pretty good. The camp before the tournament, the guys seemed to gel really well. I thought it was magnificent the guys batted today at the top of the order in particularly, Nitish and Tripathi. And the bowling too, couldn't have asked for a better start. It was a tight game against a really tough side. There's a huge amount of thought and structure that goes into decisions on the field. We've got a great head coach and support staff. The IPL is all about results. I think guys buying in to what we are trying to do. Bhajji starting really well in the first over and not playing a part after that but using his experience to guide the others just shows that. Really happy with the start. We were very happy with our score, we thought if we bowled half decently well we should get over the line.

11.16 pm: Presentations coming up.

Aaqib Issa: "Samad is batting way too low. He needs to play the pinch hitter role and should have come in place of Nabi or Shankar, similar to what happened last year in the playoffs, SRH not learning from their mistakes"

Kiran: "Big positive for SRH is that their batsmen are capable of looking like chasing this 187 with out a significant contribution from Warner's bat. A quickfire 25 by Warner would have made alot of difference to this chase"

Prasidh Krishna: I was trying my best, the wicket was slow so I had to do something from my side (on hitting 140+ consistently). We have had a great 10-day camp and from there everybody had been in good nick and it showed. Everyone contributed to the win today. The wickets was slow and not really easy to hit off the length and they did really well (Rana and Tripathi). Lot of games coming into the IPL was a great positive for me, the more games you play the more you understand your bowling. Confidence is upbeat now because I've been coming off a good series. Would like to continue the way I've been doing and contribute to the team's win. Some of the biggest hitters are in my side, I'm fortunate for that.

David Warner: I didn't think there were that many runs in that wicket. They adapted really well. We just mis-executed a little bit (with the ball). And the way that we lost two early wickets but fought hard through Jonny and Manish, was good. If you over-pitched, it came on a little bit. They had some height in their bowling attack, it helped with the cross-seam balls. Good momentum going into the tournament (with the batting), but plenty of games to come. Four games at this venue so we should be getting used to this square.

11.02 pm: So that's a 10-run win for KKR to kick off their IPL 2021. SRH managed to reduce the defeat margin, but they'll have some work to do and combinations to ponder, you suspect. Victory was set up by the batting heroics of Nitish Rana and Rahul Tripathi. Rare off day for Bhuvneshwar Kumar, though Rashid Khan was his usual spectacular self. Bairstow then gave SRH hope in the chase, but some quality defensive bowling at the end, particularly from Dre Russ, meant SRH weren't quite in the chase at the end.

19.6
6
Russell to Pandey, SIX runs

six to finish, but that won't affect the result, only reduce the margin. Shorter and this time Pandey was ready for it, rocked back and pulled it over deep midwicket.

19.5
1
Russell to Abdul Samad, 1 run

full toss on off, has a big thrash at it, but it squirts from the outside edge to trickle to cover

19.4
1
Russell to Pandey, 1 run

yorker on the fourth stump, drilled to long-on. Still can't find the gaps, Pandey

19.3
1
Russell to Abdul Samad, 1 run

and now he bowled it into the batsman, who can only hoick it to short fine leg

19.2
Russell to Abdul Samad, no run

and this one is bowled into the pitch and going away from Samad, he wants to crash it through cover, gets a little under edge to the keeper. If he hadn't touched it, would have been wide

19.1
2
Russell to Abdul Samad, 2 runs

nails the yorker on the fifth stump, sticking to the round the wicket line, dug out to long-off. No timing on it which works in the batsman's favour because they sprint two

22 needed from the last over. I'm guessing Dre Russ will bowl it. Will be tough to get that many off him.

end of over 1916 runs
SRH: 166/5CRR: 8.73 RRR: 22.00
Manish Pandey54 (42b 2x4 2x6)
Abdul Samad15 (4b 2x6)
Pat Cummins 4-0-30-1
Andre Russell 2-0-21-1
18.6
Cummins to Pandey, no run

bouncer to end, and a very good one too. Quick, sharp and outside off, Pandey has to fetch the pull from over his shoulder and he can't even connect.

18.5
1
Cummins to Abdul Samad, 1 run

down the track to mess with his length but Cummins kept this back of, and Samad is cramped for room, pulls it to deep square leg

18.4
6
Cummins to Abdul Samad, SIX runs

boom. What a hit. Cummins went for another yorker, misses the length by just a teeny bit, and Samad, drills it straight back over the bowler, weight on back foot and wrists showing unbelievable power.

18.3
2
Cummins to Abdul Samad, 2 runs

goes for the yorker on middle and leg, Samad goes deep and whips it off his toes through midwicket

18.2
6
Cummins to Abdul Samad, SIX runs

wallopped. What a hit, first ball. Samad has arrived. Too short outside off, he calmly goes on the back foot and unleashes on that one with a pull over deep midwicket

18.1
1
Cummins to Pandey, 1 run

good pick up pull shot to a back of a length ball, but once again Pandey can't get the placement right and it bounces down to deep square leg

38 needed off 12. Even the man standing behind the wickets now didn't get that many....

end of over 186 runs • 1 wicket
SRH: 150/5CRR: 8.33 RRR: 19.00
Manish Pandey53 (40b 2x4 2x6)
Andre Russell 2-0-21-1
Varun Chakravarthy 4-0-36-0
17.6
W
Russell to Shankar, OUT

caught at cover. Dre has really got that angle from around the wicket working for him, and Shankar couldn't quite get properly underneath this as he tried to go over long-off. Ends up with a leading edge that loops up for a simple catch.

Vijay Shankar c Morgan b Russell 11 (7b 0x4 1x6 10m) SR: 157.14
17.5
Russell to Shankar, no run

wonderful bowling. Nails a yorker that ends up on the sixth stump, with the angle from around the wicket making it really difficult to hit. Shankar swings and misses

Salman Sherazi: "Against the team of Dre Russ, someone has to play his sort of innings if SRH are to win here. So who is going to be Sunriser's Russell?"

17.4
2
Russell to Shankar, 2 runs

carved over cover. Moves across, anticipating a wide outside off ball, so gets in reach of it and gets it over cover. There's protection in the deep though

17.3
1
Russell to Pandey, 1 run

nails the wide yorker this time and Pandey can only drive it to long-off

17.3
1w
Russell to Pandey, 1 wide

and Dre goes too far outside off, from around the wicket, misses the tramline so he'll have to rebowl that

17.2
1
Russell to Shankar, 1 run

drilled back past the bowler, but the field placing is perfect. Long-on is very straight and Shankar has moved across to thump it straight past the bowler, but the fielder is in place

17.1
1
Russell to Pandey, 1 run

low full toss on the stumps, opens his stance and swings hard at it, makes great connection too, but the placement is straight to deep midwicket. Travelled really quickly, a yard either side would have been four

44 needed from 18.

end of over 1713 runs
SRH: 144/4CRR: 8.47 RRR: 14.66
Vijay Shankar8 (3b 1x6)
Manish Pandey51 (38b 2x4 2x6)
Varun Chakravarthy 4-0-36-0
Prasidh Krishna 4-0-35-2
16.6
6
Varun to Shankar, SIX runs

gets hold of the pull shot that time. Giving himself room again, Varun tries to follow him again but bowls this too short, which means Shankar has the time to rock back and thump a pull shot over deep midwicket. Prasidh the fielder there I think but even though he leapt up the ball went over. Flat and hard.

Best performances - batters
Spike Graph
Wagon Zone
N Rana
80 runs (56)
9 fours4 sixes
Productive shot
slog shot
15 runs
2 fours1 six
Control
75%
MK Pandey
61 runs (44)
2 fours3 sixes
Productive shot
pull
17 runs
1 four1 six
Control
93%
Best performances - bowlers
Rashid Khan
O
4
M
0
R
24
W
2
ECO
6
FTYFGSGS
OFFLEG
RHB
1W
1W
LEGOFF
LHB
Mohammad Nabi
O
4
M
0
R
32
W
2
ECO
8
FTYFGSGS
OFFLEG
RHB
LEGOFF
LHB
2W
Match details
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai
TossSunrisers Hyderabad, elected to field first
Series
Season2021
Player Of The Match
Match days11 April 2021 - night (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpire
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
PointsKolkata Knight Riders 2, Sunrisers Hyderabad 0
Language
English
Win Probability
KKR 100%
KKRSRH
100%50%100%KKR InningsSRH Innings

Over 20 • SRH 177/5

KKR won by 10 runs
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