Kolkata Knight Riders won by 5 runs against Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad on May 4. Kolkata Knight Riders won the toss and opted to bat. They managed 171 runs where Rinku Singh top-scored with 46. Marco Jansen and T Natarajan claimed 2 wickets each.

While chasing, Sunrisers Hyderabad lost their openers very cheaply. Aiden Markram top-scored with 41 but a lack of support from the other end and a stunning final over from Varun Chakravarthy sealed the deal for KKR. Vaibhav Arora and Shardul Thakur picked up 2 wickets each as well.

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Here is what the captains and the player of the match said after the game:

Varun Chakravarthy, Player of the Match said as quoted by Cricbuzz: My heartbeat was touching 200 in the last over, but I wanted them to make hit to the longer part of the ground. The ball was slipping a lot and my best bet was longer side and that was my only hope. My first over I went for 12 runs, Markram hit me for 2 fours and that’s how the game goes. Last year I was bowling around 85kmph, I was trying out many things and I realized that I needed to work on my revolutions and I did work on it.

Nitish Rana, KKR skipper said as quoted by Cricbuzz: In the middle we bowled a few loose overs and took a gamble with Shardul and Vaibhav and they managed to get both set batters and that’s how we made a comeback in this game. We had to get them out because if they bat till the end, then surely the game would have gone out of our reach. I had a doubt if I had to go with spinner/pacer and backed my spinner to do the job. I awlays see who is the best spinner on the game and that’s how I decide whom to back on the given day.

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Aiden Markram, SRH skipper said as quoted by Cricbuzz: Difficult. Had to play good cricket in the last portion but we got it wrong. Hard to swallow. Klaasen batted beautifully, I struggled in the beginning and that was part of the reason we ended up short. The bowlers were good, we were throwing ourselves on the field. The batters also got started. Tough one to take, we learn from this. If we can’t execute, we need to go back in the nets and plan better. These guys have played at this venue so we know what to expect. (On every game being a must win now) Hopefully, the situation brings out the best in us. Hopefully, we can go four out of four to give ourselves an outside chance.