England’s new batting sensation harry brook Sunrisers Hyderabad scored a sensational century in 55 balls to give Kolkata Knight Riders their second win by 23 runs in the IPL match played at Eden Gardens on Saturday. Young Brook finally managed to crack the IPL code with SRH batting brilliantly at 228 for 4 in the allotted 20 overs. Despite some beating from the home captain, his bowlers Nitish Rana And Rinku Singh Scored only 205 runs for seven wickets in 20 overs. Brook, who was roped in after his exploits in Pakistan, finally announced his arrival in style when he hit four fours and two sixes in the first three overs to give SRH their best start of the season.
Bought by SRH for Rs 13.25 crore, Brook had managed only 29 runs in the first three games but found his rhythm with a 55-ball 100 as he hit 12 fours and three sixes. This was the first century of the 16th edition.
In reply, it was always going to be difficult for KKR to maintain a run-rate of 11 plus per over but skipper Rana (75 off 41 balls) smashed SRH bowlers for half a dozen sixes and was the ‘man of the moment’ . Rinku Singh (58 not out in 31 balls) shared a 69-run partnership in 6.2 overs for the company. This happened after KR were reduced to 96 for 5 in the first 10 overs.
Once T Natarajan After getting rid of Rana, Rinku was left to steal another as 57 were needed off the last three overs.
But Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/29 in 4 overs) conceded 10 runs in the 18th over while Natarajan (1/54 in 4 overs) conceded 16 runs in the last over.
Rinku is on strike and 32 runs were needed in the last over. Umran Malik (1/36 in 2 overs) came back well to be dismissed Shardul Thakur with the first delivery and effectively sealed the game as the southpaw was trapped at the other end for the first two deliveries. Rinku faced four balls, but Umran bowled fast and full and kept it under control, conceding only eight runs.
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Earlier, he was relieved on 45 when he was dropped by the rookie leg-spinner Suyash Sharma A simple chance from his own bowling, Brook brings up his 50 off 32 balls.
Brook also overturned the catch-back decision loki ferguson The 61-year-old was when he smashed the Kiwi pacer with five fours as well as his maiden century of the season, which came off a single ball. Umesh Yadav In the last over.
Opted to bowl, KKR’s fielding was also a major shortcoming as captain aiden markram The middle also played an impressive innings when he brought up his half-century off 26 balls and the duo put on 72 runs in 47 balls.
Young left-handed batsman after Markram’s departure Abhishek Sharma (32; 17b) provided a fine support as the pair also added 72 runs (33b) to pile on KKR’s misery.
Heinrich Klaasen Then came an unbeaten 16 off six balls as SRH put up a brilliant batting display after KKR opted to bowl.
except in the Caribbean Sunil Naren (4-0-28-0) and andre russell (2.1-0-22-3) who pulled a muscle and could not complete his overs, none of the KKR bowlers failed to impress.
The day completely belonged to the English batsman, who carried his bat as he emulated his success in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), where he scored 264 runs in eight innings for Lahore Qalandars at a strike rate of 171.4 in 2022. A century was also included. version.
Brook has astonishing figures in Test matches as well and has scored 809 runs in 10 innings with the help of four centuries and three half-centuries.
KKR may have missed the start by giving him some easy pace bait as Brooke was happy to take Yadav to the cleaners while the fiery Ferguson was wayward, both conceding 14 runs in their opening overs.
Sunil Narine, 43 for no loss in three overs, managed to pull him in the fourth over, dealing a double blow to Andre Russell.
Got Jamaica out bowling for the first time this season Mayank Agarwal (9; 13b) just before a muscle is pulled.
Russell, however, managed to finish the over and took the wicket of the in-form Rahul Tripathi For giving KKR the crucial opening on the last ball.
But Brooke and skipper Markram batted sensibly, especially against Narine, hitting quickfire half-centuries to keep their run-rate close to the 10-run mark.
The SRH skipper provided a good support to Brook and interacted well in the middle overs in an entertaining partnership of 72 off just 47 balls.
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