New Delhi. Sunrisers Hyderabad, which made the record of big scores in IPL 2024, could not even play its entire overs in Qualifier-1. The team, which has scores like 287 and 277 in the tournament, collapsed against Kolkata Knight Riders by scoring just 159 runs. Mitchell Starc was at the forefront in making Sunrisers Hyderabad suffer like this. The most expensive player of IPL dismissed 3 batsmen of Sunrisers Hyderabad within the power play and could not recover from these setbacks till the end.
The first qualifier of IPL 2024 was played between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad. Sunrisers Hyderabad, who came to bat first after winning the toss, had to face the ferocious form of Mitchell Starc from the very first over. Mitchell Starc clean bowled dangerous batsman Travis Head in the first over. After this, before the end of the power play, Nitish Reddy and Shahbaz Ahmed were also dismissed. Meanwhile, Vaibhav Arora encouraged Abhishek Sharma. The result was that Sunrisers Hyderabad lost 4 wickets within the powerplay.
Rahul Tripathi’s counterattack
When Starc and KKR bowlers wreaked havoc, SRH’s Rahul Tripathi counterattacked. He played a beautiful inning of 55 runs in 35 balls amid the dominance of the bowlers. He also got good support from Heinrich Klaasen (32 runs on 21 balls). By the time Varun Chakraborty broke the pair by dismissing Klaasen, SRH had reached the score of 101.
Tripathi became victim of mistake
Rahul Tripathi took the innings forward with Abdul Samad after Klassen was out. Both took the team’s score to 115 runs. Then a mistake happened, which proved very costly for Sunrisers Hyderabad. The victim of this mistake was Rahul Tripathi, who had to return to the pavilion after being run out. After Rahul was out, the rest of the batsmen also got out in quick succession. In this way, the entire team of Sunrisers Hyderabad was all out after scoring 159 runs in 19.3 overs.
Tags: IPL 2024, IPL Playoffs, Kolkata Knight Riders, Mitchell Starc, Sunrisers Hyderabad
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 21, 2024, 21:23 IST