IPL 2023, SRH vs KKR, 47th Match: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Hyderabad by five runs, KKR bowlers won the match

In the 47th match of IPL 2023, Sunrisers Hyderabad are facing Kolkata Knight Riders. This match between the two teams is being played at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad. Kolkata captain Nitish Rana won the toss and decided to bat first. Kolkata is eighth and Hyderabad is ninth in the points table. Both the teams have six points each. Kolkata captain Nitish Rana has made two changes in the team. Jason Roy comes in for David Wije and Vaibhav Arora comes in for N Jagadishan. Earlier, Hyderabad had defeated Delhi Capitals by nine runs. At the same time, the Kolkata team will try to win this match by forgetting the previous defeat against Gujarat Titans.

Kolkata captain Nitish Rana won the toss and decided to bat first. His team scored 171 runs for nine wickets in 20 overs. In response, the Sunrisers team could only manage 166 runs for eight wickets in 20 overs. This was the eighth match between Hyderabad and Kolkata since 2020. Kolkata has won the sixth. He has faced defeat in only two matches. The Sunrisers team was running for the fifth time this season. He had to face defeat for the fourth time. Sunrisers Hyderabad had to score nine runs in the last over against Kolkata Knight Riders. In such a situation, Nitish Rana called spinner Varun Chakraborty for bowling. In front of him were explosive batsmen Abdul Samad and Bhuvneshwar Kumar. Varun gave two runs on the first two balls. On the third ball, he got Abdul Samad caught by Anukul Roy. Mayank Markande comes to the crease of Samad. He could not score a run on the fourth ball. He took a single on the fifth ball. Strike goes to Bhuvneshwar Kumar. He had to hit a six to win the match, but Varun did not allow him to score even a single run and gave the team victory.

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Playing-11 of both the teams:-

Sunrisers Hyderabad : Abhishek Sharma, Mayank Agarwal, Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram (c), Harry Brook, Heinrich Klaasen (wk), Abdul Samad, Marco Jansen, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mayank Markande, Umran Malik.

Kolkata Knight Riders : Jason Roy, Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana (c), Andre Russell, Rinku Singh, Shardul Thakur, Sunil Narine, Harshit Rana, Varun Chakraborty, Suyash Sharma.

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