Raghuvanshi, Spinners Fire KKR To 7-Wicket Win Over SRH

Hyderabad: Promising Angkrish Raghuvanshi (59) made a decent fifty as Kolkata Knight Riders defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by seven wickets in their IPL match on Sunday.

Skipper Ajinkya Rahane (43) and Raghuvanshi added 84 runs for the second wicket as KKR overhauled SRH’s score of 165-under-par with ease.

Finn Allen aggressively made 29 off 13 balls up front to give KKR a flying start.

Earlier, Travis Head scored an aggressive 61 off 28 balls but KKR’s spinners bowled well to restrict SRH to 165.

Mystery spinners Varun Chakravarthy (3/36) and Sunil Narine (2/31) destroyed the SRH middle order with controlled spells.

Narine also completed 200 IPL wickets during his two-wicket burst in the fourth over.

The spinner was the third bowler to achieve this feat after Yuzvendra Chahal and Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Ishan Kishan made 42 off 29 balls.

Quick Points:

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 165 runs in 19 overs (Travis Head 61, Ishan Kishan 42; Varun Chakravarthy 3/36, Sunil Narine 2/31).

Kolkata Knight Riders: 169/3 in 18.2 overs (Angkrish Raghuvanshi 59, Ajinkya Rahane 43).