Kolkata Knight Riders trampled Sunrisers Hyderabad by 80 runs at their home Eden Gardens in the 15th match of IPL 2025 on Thursday. On the basis of the best innings of Venkatesh Iyer, Angkrish Raghuvanshi and Rinku Singh, KKR batted first and scored 200 runs losing 6 wickets in the prescribed 20 overs. In response to which Hyderabad’s stormy batting order collapsed and piled up for 120 runs in 16.4 overs.
However, there was a time when Kolkata’s score of 150 runs also seemed difficult, but the team scored 78 runs in the last five overs, the team reached a strong score. In this, Venkatesh Iyer had a role of 60 runs off 29 balls with the help of seven fours and three sixes. At the same time, Rinku Singh played an important innings of 32 runs in 17 balls. While Angkrish Raghuvanshi scored 50 runs off 32 balls with the help of five fours and two sixes.
This is the third consecutive defeat of Hyderabad this season. Earlier, Delhi Capitals defeated him on 30 March. 27 Marcha was defeated by Lucknow Super Giants in Hyderabad. The defeat that the team got against KKR is Hyderabad’s biggest defeat of IPL.
At the moment, SRH, who was chasing 201 runs, did not have a good start. Vaibhav put a brake on Ishaan Kishan’s innings. So this left -handed batsman could not move beyond two runs. Nitish Kumar Reddy also could not take his innings ahead by 19 runs. Kamindu Mendis was dismissed by Naren and gave Hyderabad a fifth blow. Aniket Verma also could not do anything amazing in this match. He was dismissed by Varun Chakraborty and 6 runs in his account.
Heinrich Klassen was putting on his own, but he too could not play long innings and became a victim of splendor. The right -handed batsman scored 33 runs in 21 balls which included two fours and two sixes. Captain Pat Cummins fell victim to Varun by scoring 14 runs off 15 balls.
