Sunrisers Hyderabad registered their second successive win in the ongoing Indian Premier League 2023 against Kolkata Knight Riders. SRH defeated the Knight Riders at their home ground at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday in the 19th match, to gain the benefit of a spot in the points table of the tournament. The KKR skipper Nitish Rana had the upper hand at the time of the toss and decided to bowl first.
Although his decision was proved absolutely wrong by the star England batter and sensational Sunrisers Hyderabad opener Harry Brook. Batting first, the orange army posted a very good total of 228 runs for the loss of only four wickets in 20 overs.
Later, the hosts failed to go past the target SRH has given them to win the match and faced the second defeat in the tournament from the fourth match they played. Subsequently, the cricket fans were also divided into a lot of different opinions for both KKR and the visitors’ team that played brilliantly today. They took to Twitter to come up with a lot of interesting and opinionated responses on the micro-blogging site Twitter in the aftermath of the match.
Here’s how fans reacted:
Are sab kam batting wale ki karega kya ..bowlers aur andre russell ka tou karo bhai.. #KKRvSRH
— Anindya Ray (@AnindyaRay401) April 14, 2023
The top order of #KKR is collapsing in every match!!#Russell and #Ferguson should be given a break!!#KKR needs to try a new top order!!#RinkuSingh and #nitishrana played but the run was so humongous that it seemed impossible!!#KKRvSRH
— Abhishek Mohanty (@_iamabbie_) April 14, 2023
#KKRvSRH everyday miracle doesn't happen, can't depend on #RinkuSingh or thakur to do miracle everyday
— Akash Singh (@AkashSingh178) April 14, 2023
Even on this highway
— Bijay Roy (@Roytweets09) April 14, 2023
King Narine gave only 28 runs in 4 overs🔥🔥👏👏💜#KKRvSRH pic.twitter.com/vA3pKk4x4R
Good game. Better luck next time KKR ❤️❤️❤️ #TATAIPL2023 #KKRvSRH pic.twitter.com/zEB5HZvnDR
— Angel Anki 🇮🇳 (@angel_ank1) April 14, 2023
In Match 1️⃣9️⃣ of #TATAIPL between #KKR & #SRH
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 14, 2023
Here are the TIAGO.ev Electric Striker, Dream11 GameChanger & RuPay On-The-Go 4s of the match award winners. #KKRvSRH @Tatamotorsev | #Tiagoev | #Goev@Dream11 | #SabKhelenge@RuPay_npci | #RuPayCreditonUPI | #BeOnTheGo pic.twitter.com/Vo7FZbPjce
KKR management please drop Russell and Lockie Ferguson. Give a chance Jason Roy and Liton Das.#AmiKKR #KKRvSRH
— Suraj sekh (@Surajsekh12) April 14, 2023
Again he Fought for team but this time is not a his day!!! Really he impressing on every match
— AlwaysRC (@Rajashe331) April 14, 2023
Rinku ❤️🔥👏 waiting to see another match!#rinkusing #KKRvSRH @IPL pic.twitter.com/s9lNfBaGQU
KKR Fans to Umesh Yadav and Lokie Ferguson 🥲 #KKRvSRH pic.twitter.com/cZCwB6vxoX
— Roy ~ (@SRKzBollywood) April 14, 2023
#rinkusing to #Kkr#KKRvSRH#ShahRukhKhan𓀠 @iamsrk @KKRiders @SunRisers pic.twitter.com/sUvjzG2D7d
— @Sarcastic_Danu (@eyes_opner) April 14, 2023
Coming back to Harry Brook, he smashed a swashbuckling century knock of 100 runs off just 55 balls with 12 boundaries and 3 sixes to his name. Apart from the 24-year-old, skipper Aiden Markram also played a captaincy knock of 50 runs off just 26 balls with two boundaries and five sixes with the wood followed by Abhishek Sharma’s 32-run knock to help SRH reach the total of 228 runs for the loss of four wickets in the allotted 20 overs.
While defending the target, The visitors’ bowling lineup restricted Nitish Rana’s men to the score of only 205 runs for the loss of seven wickets to win the match by 23 runs. It was only skipper Rana and middle-order batter Rinku Singh who scored 75 and 58 runs respectively to take their team closer to the target. ‘
Marco Jansen and Mayank Markande scalped two wickets each alongside one wicket each claimed by Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, and T Natrajan.
Eventually, Harry Brook won the ‘Player of the Match award for his sensational and swashbuckling century in favour of Sunrisers Hyderabad.