Vaibhav Arora, Varun Chakravarthy and Venkatesh Iyer handed Sunrisers Hyderabad their third consecutive defeat. After their initial win against Rajasthan Royals, SRH has now lost three matches (against Lucknow Super Giants, Delhi Capitals and now against Kolkata Knight Riders). If you look at the player lineup, it will be impossible to believe that this team can be defeated. And yet, they are at the bottom of the points table right now. For sure, the franchise owners are not going to be too happy about it.
Due to the excellent bowling of Vaibhav Arora and Varun, it became easy for Kolkata to win the match. Kolkata was able to give a big target. However, if the bowlers did not do well, they could not have won. Hyderabad had several T20 specialist batsmen. Hyderabad lost wickets very quickly. Hyderabad's top order could not bat well.
After 15 overs, Kolkata's collection was 122 runs. The team scored 78 runs in the last 5 overs. Iyer and Rinku batted well. Kolkata was able to collect big because of this pair. But I would say that Vaibhav Arora and Varun played the most important role in the match. Vaibhav Arora took three important wickets of Head, Ishan Kishan and Heinrich Klaasen.