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England’s new batting sensation Harry Brook brought high-flying Kolkata Knight Riders to the ground with 55 as the Sunrisers Hyderabad took their second victory by 23 runs in an IPL match at Eden Gardens on Saturday. Young Brook finally cracked the IPL code in style when SRH scored 228 out of 4 over a stipulated 20 overs on a batting beauty. Their bowlers, despite some hits from home skipper Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh, were capped at 205 for 7 of 20 overs. Brook, who was tied up after his exploits in Pakistan, finally announced his arrival in style as he broke four fours and two sixes in the first three overs to give SRH their best start to the season.
Bought by SRH for a whopping Rs 13.25 crore, Brook only managed 29 in his first three games but found his rhythm with a 55-ball-100 as he pitched 12 fours and three sixes. This was the first century of the 16th edition.
In response, KKR always found it difficult to maintain a running pace of 11 plus per over, but skipper Rana (75 of 41 balls) did rush into the SRH bowlers with half a dozen sixes and got the Man of the Moment. Rinku Singh (58 no strikeouts from 31 balls) is only 6.2 overs for the company in their 69-run confrontation. This happened after KR dropped to 96 fo 5 during the first 10 overs.
Once T. Natarajan got rid of Rana, Rink had to pull off another robbery as 57 were required for the last three overs.
But Bhuvneshwar Kumar (1/29 for 4 overs) dropped 10 in the 18th over and Natarajan (1/54 for 4 overs) went for 16 in the penultimate over.
With Rinku on strike and 32 last needed, Umran Malik (1/36 for 2 overs) came back well to dismiss Shardul Thakur with the first pitch and effectively seal the game as the southpaw was stuck on the other end for the first two deliveries. . Rinku faced four balls, but Umran served quickly and completely to keep him under control, missing only eight runs.
Brook ‘Bonds’ with the SRH philosophy
Having previously received a 45 reprieve when rookie Suyash Sharma gave him an easy shot from his own bowling alley, Brook got his 50 out of 32 balls.
Brook also reversed a taken by surprise decision by Locky Ferguson when he was 61 when he scored a fiery Kiwi pacer in the same over five fours en route to the season’s first centenary as Umesh Yadav made one in the final. above.
Having chosen the bowl, fielding KKR was also a big disappointment as skipper Aiden Markram also played an impressive midfield serve as he raced to 50 balls as the duo stitched together 72 runs out of 47 balls.
After Markram’s departure, young lefty batter Abhishek Sharma (32; 17b) provided excellent support as the duo also added 72 runs (33b), adding to KKR’s suffering.
Heinrich Klaasen then made a cameo out of 16 without losing six goals as SRH put in a superb run after KKR decided to bowl.
With the exception of Caribbean players Sunil Narine (4-0-28-0) and Andre Russell (2.1-0-22-3), who pulled a muscle and failed to complete their over-outs, none of the KKR bowlers were able to impress .
The day belonged entirely to the English batsman who held his bat, repeating his success in the Pakistan Super League (PSL), where he hit 264 for Lahore Qalandars in eight innings, including a century, with a 171.4 strike rate in 2022. version.
Brook also has an eye-popping Test record and has amassed 809 runs over four centuries and three fifties in 10 innings.
KKR may have missed the trick by giving him some light fodder to start with, as Brook was happy to take Yadav to the purge while the short-tempered Ferguson was wayward, both missing 14 runs in their opening overs.
From 43 unbeaten in three overs, Sunil Narine managed to get them into a neat fourth over, which set Andre Russell up perfectly for a double strike.
In bowling, for the first time this season, the Jamaican sacked Mayanka Agarwal (9; 13b) straight away before pulling a muscle.
Russell, however, managed to complete the over and kick in-form Rahul Tripathi’s wicket on the last ball, giving KKR a vital advantage.
But Brook and Skipper Markram played sensibly, especially against Narine, and raced to fifty to keep their speed near the 10-run mark.
The SRH skipper provided great support to Brook and negotiated medium overs well in an exciting 72-run partnership that only had 47 balls.
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