Kolkata Knight Riders won match by 80 runs which was very exciting outcome. They set very high target of 200 runs and team showed great skill and worked well together. Many players played very well. Venkatesh Iyer did great job scoring 60 runs. Angkrish Raghuvanshi also played very important role scoring 50 runs and playing aggressively throughout his innings. At first it did not seem possible for team to set such high target especially after Quinton de Kock got out early for just one run. But his getting out did not worry team and other players did great job playing well and winning match easily.
The performance of the Kolkata team is very erratic. In the match against Mumbai, we saw that Kolkata had a collection of only 116 runs. But against Hyderabad, Kolkata gave a big target of 201. Even after Kolkata gave a big target, we thought the match would be competitive. Because the batsmen of the Hyderabad squad are very talented. However, Hyderabad played very badly today.
Hyderabad's innings stopped for 120 runs today. Heinrich Klaasen was able to bat somewhat well. Apart from that, no other batsman could do well. Varun and Vaibhab bowled well and both took three wickets. Along with the Kolkata batsmen, the bowlers also played very well today.