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    Klaasen’s efforts went in vain as KKR beat SRH by 4 runs; KKR vs SRH Highlights

    Kolkata Knight Riders handed a thrilling final-over defeat to Sunrisers Hyderabad in their 209 runs-chase innings. KKR and SRH were scheduled to face off on March 23 in Eden Garden, Kolkata.

    Klaasen’s efforts went in vain as KKR beat SRH by 4 runs; KKR vs SRH Highlights

    Andre Russell Powered KKR With Bat

    Winning the toss, SRH decided to bowl first where Phil Salt and Sunil Narine opened the inning while Bhuvneshwar opened the bowling attack on behalf of SRH.

    In the last ball of the 2nd over, Sunil Narine loses his wicket while attempting an unwanted run between wickets. following his dismissal, KKR loses another couple of wickets in the 4th over bowled by T Natarajan.

    Natarajan dismissed Venkatesh Iyer(7) and Shreyas Iyer(0) in the same over and registered his 50th IPL wicket. Though KKR lost their middle-order batter for single digit score, KKR’s powerhouse Andre Russell scored an unbeaten 64 runs off just 25 deliveries and led KKR to score 208 runs in the allotted 20 overs.

    Klaasen Efforts Went in Vein 

    On the other hand, SRH’s Mayank Agarwal and Abhishek Sharma opened the inning in their 200+ run chase inning. Though SRH batters made a 60-run stand for the first wicket, the following batters failed to build a partnership to chase the 200+ runs mark.

    While every SRHians thought they were out of the match, T20 specialist Heinrich Klaasen on joining hands with Shahbaz Ahmed made some hope of winning the game which was later scattered by Harshit Rana when he dismissed Shahbaz Ahmed and Klaasen for 16 and 63 runs respectively.

    At the end of the day, KKR won the game by 4 runs and registered their first victory of the season.

    IPL 2024 KKR vs SRH Highlights

    Kolkata Knight Riders Batting

    BATTING R B M 4s 6s SR
    Phil Salt † c Jansen b Markande 54 40 68 3 3 135
    Sunil Narine run out (Shahbaz Ahmed) 2 4 11 0 0 50
    Venkatesh Iyer c Jansen b Natarajan 7 5 7 1 0 140
    Shreyas Iyer (c) c Cummins b Natarajan 0 2 1 0 0 0
    Nitish Rana c Tripathi b Markande 9 11 18 1 0 81.81
    Ramandeep Singh c Markande b Cummins 35 17 20 1 4 205.88
    Rinku Singh c Markram b Natarajan 23 15 35 3 0 153.33
    Andre Russell not out 64 25 32 3 7 256
    Mitchell Starc not out 6 3 3 1 0 200
    Sunrisers Hyderabad Bowling
    BOWLING O R W ECON 4s 6s WD NB
    Bhuvneshwar Kumar 4 51 0 12.75 4 3 2 1
    Marco Jansen 3 40 0 13.33 1 4 1 0
    T Natarajan 4 32 3 8 3 1 3 0
    Pat Cummins 4 32 1 8 3 1 0 0
    Mayank Markande 4 39 2 9.75 1 4 0 0
    Shahbaz Ahmed 1 14 0 14 1 1 0 1

    Sunrisers Hyderabad Batting

    BATTING Status R B M 4s 6s SR
    Mayank Agarwal c Singh b Harshit Rana 32 21 27 4 1 152.38
    Abhishek Sharma c Varun b Russell 32 19 36 4 2 168.42
    Rahul Tripathi c Harshit Rana b Narine 20 20 33 0 1 100
    Aiden Markram c Singh b Varun 18 13 20 2 0 138.46
    Heinrich Klaasen † c Suyash Sharma b Harshit Rana 63 29 45 0 8 217.24
    Abdul Samad c VR Iyer b Russell 15 11 20 1 1 136.36
    Shahbaz Ahmed c SS Iyer b Harshit Rana 16 5 15 1 2 320
    Marco Jansen not out 1 1 3 0 0 100
    Pat Cummins (c) not out 0 1 1 0 0 0
    Kolkata Knight Riders Bowling
    BOWLING O R W ECON 4s 6s WD NB
    Mitchell Starc 4 53 0 13.25 3 4 2 0
    Harshit Rana 4 33 3 8.25 3 2 0 0
    Varun Chakravarthy 4 55 1 13.75 1 7 0 0
    Sunil Narine 4 19 1 4.75 0 0 0 0
    Andre Russell 2 25 2 12.5 4 1 0 0
    Suyash Sharma 2 18 0 9 1 1 0 0

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