SRH vs KKR Highlights: Chakravarthy Last Over Miracle Lead KKR Win Over SRH

SRH vs KKR Highlights: On a day when numerous blunders were committed on the field, Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad took turns squandering their advantage until the host team imploded in what should have been a breeze of a chase, requiring 38 from 30 at one point.

Varun Chakaravarthy came around the wicket in the final over to target length areas on the leg-stump line while defending eight. Abdul Samad hit a single followed by a leg-bye from Bhuvaneshwar Kumar before being captured in the deep. After a dot and a single, Kumar was tasked with scoring six runs off the final delivery, but Chakaravarthy prevailed, giving KKR a much-needed victory to remain in playoff contention.

When the final over of an innings reads 0, W, W, 0, 1, 2, it indicates the success of the Sunrisers' bowling strategies. A 13-run over conceded by Bhuvaneshwar Kumar was entirely negated by T Natarajan's abundance of yorkers and a brilliant run out following a dropped throw. With that, Natarajan concluded with an economy rate of 7.5 to conclude a bowling performance in which Kumar, Mayank Markande, and even Aiden Markram averaged 8.25 runs per over.

Marco Jansen delivered the decisive strikes earlier, in the second over. Jansen consistently challenged batters attempting to play on the front foot by relying on the spin he generates naturally. First to depart was Rahmanullah Gurbaz, who bizarrely attempted to attack Jansen with the first ball he encountered. Jansen, however, astonished him with his speed and retreated slightly, forcing a top edge that Harry Brook easily caught. The next wicket was that of Venkatesh Iyer, who was dismissed by Jansen's short-pitched delivery, which cramped Iyer, who was attempting to hook but could only palm the ball to the wicketkeeper.

Janson's two wickets in a single over effectively put KKR into repair mode for the majority of their innings, particularly after Jason Roy was dispatched cheaply in the Powerplay. Rinku Singh was again the savior, as he and Nitish Rana added 61 runs for the fourth wicket in 34 deliveries. However, Sunrisers were not only excellent with the ball, but also in the field. If Markram's brilliant capture of Nitish off his own bowling from nearly 20 yards back halted KKR's momentum, then Abdul Samad's diving catch of Rinku in the deep in the final over effectively thwarted KKR's final flourish.

With the pitch slowing down and no trace of dew, pursuing 171 would be difficult. KKR utilized three seamers in the first six overs, delaying the introduction of spin until the conclusion of the Powerplay. And the instruction was clear: everyone attempted to slow down the projectile. Mayank Agarwal was run out by a bouncer, and Abhishek Sharma was caught by Andre Russell in the deep before the Jamaican beat Rahul Tripathi despite conceding 14 runs off his first three deliveries. After Harry Brook was ruled leg-before, SRH went 19 deliveries without scoring a boundary, until Heinrich Klaasen hit Anukul Roy for two sixes in the 11th over.

As the chase was neck-and-neck, all Sunrisers needed to do was maintain their composure and smash the occasional six or four. In a 48-ball, 70-run partnership, Klaasen and Markram appeared to accomplish this with relative ease, until Shardul Thakur induced Klaasen to attempt a shot over the longer midwicket boundary, which was caught by Russell at the rope. Markram hit Thakur through mid-off for four before Samad cleared extra cover to maintain their advantage.

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Before Markram hit Vaibhav Arora for a boundary off the first delivery of the 17th over, Chakaravarthy was given a four-run over. Markram attempted to crush Arora's wide bouncer in tennis fashion, but he too was unable to clear Rinku at the deep. Sunrisers could have won risk-free from that point on, but they lost their composure under KKR's sustained bowling pressure.