IPL 2020 SRH vs KKR : Lockie Ferguson wins it for KKR beating SRH in Super Over thriller

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Kunal Dhyani
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In Dream11 IPL 2020 a fast and furious Lockie Ferguson produced one of the most incredible bowling performances of this IPL edition to lead Kolkata Knight Riders to a thrilling Super Over win over Sunrisers Hyderabad on Sunday.

Ferguson proved to be the “Knight in Shining Armour” with his storehouse of variation as he dismissed David Warner and Abdul Samad in the Super Over, leaving KKR with only a three run-target to chase.

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This was after David Warner’s unbeaten 47 and 18 runs off the final Andre Russell over saw Sunrisers level the scores at 163 with KKR in the stipulated 20 overs.

IPL 2020 : Ferguson wins it for Kolkata Knight Riders

Ferguson was magnificent during the regulation 20 overs also as his 3/15 in 4 overs had SRH in all sorts of trouble. He bowled a first spell in which he dismissed Kane Williamson with a short ball, got rid of Priyam Garg with a slower one and saw the back of Manish Pandey with a yorker.

His five wickets in the game got KKR the much-needed two points to take their tally to 10 while Sunrisers stay put on 6 points and are in serious danger of missing the playoffs.

Earlier, Ex-captain Dinesh Karthik’s carefree approach was well complemented by skipper Eoin Morgan’s grace as Kolkata Knight Riders managed a par 163 for five after being put into bat.

Karthik (29 not out) and Morgan (34 off 23 balls) joined forces at 105 for four and added 58 runs in the last five overs after 150 was looking a tall-order at one stage.

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Morgan’s innings had three fours and a flicked six over mid-wicket off Basil Thampi while Karthik hit a couple of sixes and equal number of boundaries.

T Natarajan (2/40) was the most successful bowler but it was Vijay Shankar (1/20 in 4 overs) who was the most economical.

Rahul Tripathi (23 off 15 balls) gave the first charge in the Powerplay as he hit Natarajan for a straight six and a pulled boundary while Shubman Gill (36 off 37 balls) struggled to time the ball, save an over from Thampi when he got three successive fours.

Tripathi couldn’t maintain the momentum as an ugly cross-batted hoick off Natarajan only ended in the bails flying off.

Gill however after those flurry of fours found it difficult to up the ante. Nitish Rana (29 off 19 balls) looked in good nick after a gap of few games.

He straight away took on rival team’s best bowler Rashid Khan and deposited him straight for a six and also found a couple of boundaries.

But Gill’s inability to rotate strike did put KKR in a spot of bother as he tried an inside out lofted shot off Rashid. Priyam Garg, running towards his left from long-off, took a brilliant diving catch to see the opener’s back.

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Gill’s dismissal was followed by Rana’s who mistimed a shot off Vijay Shankar and was again caught by Garg, who ran forward to take a well-judged catch.

Andre Russell’s (9 off 11 balls) season just got from bad to worse as his shot off Natarajan’s slower one landed in the hands of Shankar at deep mid-wicket boundary. From a stable 87 for 1 in the 12th over, KKR had slumped to 105 for 4 at the end of the 15th over.

KKR beat SRH in super over thriller: Brief Scores

Kolkata Knight Riders: 163 for 5 in 20 overs. (S Gill 36, E Morgan 34, D Karthik 29 not out; T Natarajan 2/40).

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 163 for 6 in 20 overs. (D Warner 47 not out, J Bairstow 36, K Williamson 29; L Ferguson 3/15).

IPL 2020 SRH VS KKR LIVE COMMENTARY

7.50pm
KKR wins in Super over

KKR win. Rashid concedes two leg byes. The win has come through leg byes ad KKR cross the winning mark. They collect the two points. Disappointment for SRH.

7.49pm

Dot on the 3rd ball

7.49pm

1 runs in the 2nd ball

7.48pm
KKR’s chase begins

Morgan and Karthik opens for KKR. Dot on the first ball

7.41pm
Ferguson right on the money!

Lockie Ferguson clean bowls both Warner and Samad as SRH finishes on 2/2; KKR need 3 to win

7.38pm
Super Over begins

Warner -Bairstow opens for SRH in Super Over; Ferguson to bowl

7.32pm
4,4,4,4
Scores tied; SUPER OVER

With 18 needed of the last over; Russel gets hit for four boundaries by the SRH skipper but Russel makes a comeback on the final ball to give just one run as the match ended with the scores tied. We now head for the SUPEROVER!

7.23pm
SRH go 6 down

Excellent effort by Lockie Ferguson. He realised he was losing balance, threw it inside and Shubman completed an easy catch. There was a referral for the catch, but it was clean. Samad has to depart. SRH-146/4 after 19 overs

7.13pm

Ferguson into his final over. A double to end the over. Seven runs off it and KKR won’t mind singles and doubles. SRH-134/5 after 18 overs; need more 30 from 12 balls

7.11pm
Abdul Samad dropped!

Abdul Samad cuts and Russell at point dives to his left, but can’t hold on to the catch. A tremendous quota of overs from Lockie.

7.09pm

Chakravarthy bowls his last over. A wonderful diving effort by Tripathi in the deep saves a certain boundary. Samad dances down the track and smokes the fourth ball towards long on for a four. Varun comes back with a quicker delivery and Samad can only manage a single there. SRH-127/5 after 17 overs; need more 37 from 18 balls

7.04pm

Cummins steams in to bowl his finals over. Bowls a short delivery to Shankar, who departs after mistiming the pull shot and handing a simple catch to Shubman. Abdul Samad joins Warner and pulls Cummins’ penultimate ball towards square leg for a six. Eight runs and a wicket in that over. SRH-117/5 after 16 overs; need 47 from 24 balls

6.55pm
Vijay Shankar falls for 7; SRH lose half their side

Cummins steams in and bowls a short delivery that skidded off the surface. Shankar mistimes the pull shot and hands a simple catch to Shubman. FOW-109/5 after 15.2 overs

6.53pm

SRH-109/4 after 15 overs; need more 55 from 30 balls

6.50pm
Milestone for David Warner 

David Warner becomes the first foreign player to get to 5000 IPL runs. He is only behind Virat Kohli, Suresh Raina and Rohit Sharma in the run-scoring charts.

6.45pm
100 comes up for SRH

Cummins, the big KKR buy, returns. Strays on the pads on the first ball and Warner helps it towards fine leg for a boundary – a leg bye but SRH will happily take that. Warner picks up a single off the second and completes 5000 runs in the over. Warner goes straight past the bowler’s head for another four off the last as SRH complete 100 runs. 11 runs off the over.SRH-100/4 after 14 overs; need 64 from 36 balls

6.42pm

Kuldeep returns. The required run rate is over 10 now, SRH really need to find a way to get a couple of big overs here. Just four runs off the over, courtesy a double and two singles. SRH-89/4 after 13 overs; need 72 from 42 balls

6.38pm
Ferguson has been a gamechanger

Manish nudges the first one towards mid on for a single. Ferguson bowls two back to back yorkers off the second and third, and removes Pandey on the latter one. Vijay Shankar joins Warner in the middle. SRH-85/4 after 12 overs; need more 79 from 48 balls

6.37pm
Manish Pandey bowled by Ferguson

Brilliantly bowled, right in the block hole. You can’t do much as a batsman. Absolute peach of a delivery from Ferguson and Pandey has to depart.

6.33pm

Kuldeep Yadav, who has returned to the playing XI, comes into the attack. Beats Warner straight away with a googly off the first, still the batsman sneaks a single. Kuldeep tosses up the third ball and Warner caresses the ball through the covers for a double. Two runs off the last two. Kuldeep’s over fetches six runs for SRH. SRH-80/3 after 11 overs;  

6.28pm
SRH-74/3 after 10 overs; need more 90 from 60

6.26pm
Chakravarthy joins the party

Big wicket. Jonny Bairstow departs after hitting the ball straight to Russell at mid-on. More responsibility for Warner now. 

6.22pm

Ferguson returns. Bowls a beautiful slower one off the third and beats Garg with the change of pace. Garg departs and Warner joins Bairstow in the middle. Just two runs off the over. SRH-70/2 after 9 overs; need more 94 from 66 balls

6.19pm
Garg’s stay cut short

Slower one from Ferguson and he foxes young Garg. Good change of pace from the bowler.

6.18pm

Chakravarthy comes back into the attack. Bairstow goes on the backfoot and smacks the penultimate ball square of the wicket for a boundary. Eight runs off the over. SRH-68/1 after 8 overs; need more 96 from 72 balls

6.13pm

Lockie Ferguson into his first over. And Kane hits it straight to Rana at third man, Ferguson gets the breakthrough off the first. Priyam Garg joins Bairstow in the middle and gets off the mark with a single towards third man. Superb over this, two runs and a wicket there. SRH-60/1 after 7 overs

6.11pm
Big wicket for KKR

The trend of wickets falling after the time out continues as Ferguson removes Kane. Kane hit it straight to Rana at third man.

6.05pm
End of Powerplay!

Timeout taken. Mavi returns. Williamson rotates the strike on the penultimate delivery before Bairstow runs the ball down to third man for a boundary. 12 runs off the over and we go into the time out! SRH-58/0 after 6 overs; need more 106 from 84 balls

6.03pm
FIFTY partnership for Bairstow-Williamson

5.58pm

Cummins returns, strays on Williamson’s pads and gets flicked for a four off the second. Williamson is looking uncomfortable while running between the wickets. Bairstow swivels on his feet and pulls the last balll towards square leg for a boundary. 11 runs off the over. SRH-46/0 after 5 overs

5.54pm

Russel introduced into the attack. Williamson powerfully punches off the backfoot on the first ball and it fetches him a boundary. Then rotates strike off the third ball. Bairstow smacks two consecutive fours off the last two balls. 13 runs off the over. SRH-35/0 after 4 overs; need more 129 from 96 balls

5.50pm
SRH-22/0 after 3 overs

Spin has been introduced in the form of Varun Chakravarthy. And he gets smacked for two fours from the blade of Bairstow, who played the sweep shot on both occasions. 10 runs off the over.

5.49pm
Back to back boundaries from Bairstow

Bairstow sweeps the first one towards fine leg for a boundary. He next sweeps and he sweeps well. The ball races away towards square leg for a four. Two consecutive fours!

5.45pm
Expensive from Mavi

Shivam Mavi comes into the attack in the second over. Williamson smacks two consecutive fours off the last two balls. 10 runs off the over. SRH-12/0 after 2 overs; need more 152 from 18 overs

5.40pm
Excellent start from Cummins

Kane Williamson is out to open with Jonny Bairstow in a surprise move. Pat Cummins has the ball and he begins well for Kolkata. Five dot balls at a stretch. Bairstow’s got survival on his mind right now and he ends the over with a two. SRH: 2/0 (1 over)

5.36pm

We are underway with SRH’s chase. Bairstow-Warner walks out to bat for SRH; Cummins to start proceedings for KKR.

5.20pm
End of KKR’s innings

KKR-163/5 after 20 overs; SRH need 164 to win

5.19pm
50 partnership for Morgan-Karthik

5.13pm

Natarajan finishes his spell. Karthik started the over with a boundary but Natarajan pulled it back well with just four off the next four balls. But DK again shows his class, finishes the over with a six. 14 off the over. KKR-147/4 after 19 overs

5.12pm
Six on the last ball of the 19th over

DK finishes the penultimate over with a maximum. shuffles across in his crease, gets himself into a good position to hit the ball over long on boundary for a maximum.

5.08pm

Sandeep finishes his spell. Did not find a wicket but was economical giving just 26 runs at the end of his spell. DK managed to hit one six in the over; 12 off the over. Two more overs to go. KKR-133/4 after 18 overs

5.02pm

Thampi returns. Dot to start with before DK takes a single and a dot against as Morgan fails to connect one. Next ball, he collects four behind the stumps, via an edge. DK completes with a boundary. KKR-121/4 after 17 overs

4.55pm
Time for Strategic Timeout

Sandeep Sharma back into the attack. DK has joined Morgan in the middle, opens account with a flick to fine leg. Six off the over as the umpires signal for timeout. KKR-111/4 after 16 overs

4.51pm
100 up for KKR

KKR skipper Morgan bring up the team’s 100 with a brilliant shot on the first ball of the over. But big setback for KKR as Russell is back to the hut. Williamson is not on the field, he seems to have done his hamstring while fielding. Nine off the over and a wicket. KKR-105/4 after 15 overs

4.50pm
Russel goes for 29

Russell is gone. Another failure for him. Short ball from Natarajan and he pulled but hit is straight to the fielder placed in the deep. He is out for 9 off 11 balls. FOW-105/4

4.43pm

Rashid vs Russell- and clearly Rashid comes out on top. Just 3 off his last over and even on a day when he was not at his best. Finishes with one wicket for 28 runs from his four.  KKR-96/3 after 14 overs

4.40pm

Two quick loss of wickets for KKR. After losing Gill in the previous over, Rana is the latest to depart. KKR has two new batsmen in the middle- Morgan and Russel. Good spell of bowling from SRH. KKR-93/3 after 13 overs

4.36pm
Rana falls for 29

One more wicket falls, Garg again takes a brilliant catch yet again. Shankar with the length ball and Rana went after it, but ended up hitting high up in the air, Garg came running in and took the catch to dismiss the batsman.

4.34pm

Rashid finally gets a wicket courtesy a terrific catch by young Garg. Early in the over, Rana showed his domination over Rashid with an attempted reverse sweep and then a good hit down the ground. Eight off the over. KKR-88/2 after 12 overs

8.31pm
Priyam ‘flying’ Garg
KKR lose Shubman Gill for 36

Rashid gets his revenge! After being hit by a six by Rana, the leg-spinner spins a web around his partner. Gill mistimes his shot and the ball lands in the hands of the diving Garg. FOW-87/2 after 11.4 overs

8.28pm

Shankar continues. Gill’s struggling to get going. Kane Williamson stops a certain boundary on the last ball to ensure just 3 runs are conceded in the over. KKR-80/1 after 11 overs

4.23pm
Back to back boundaries from Rashid

Rana finds the rope on the fourth ball, straight down the ground. Rashid Khan miss his length once again, giving Rana a slow full toss. The left-hander the makes the most it,  goes down on his knees and sweeps it to the on side. Expensive from Rashid; 13 runs off it. KKR-77/1 after 10 overs

4.16pm
Strategic Timeout taken

Shankar continues. Round the wicket to Rana. He gives him charge and collects a boundary at covers. Two dots and three singles. Seven off the over. Time Out called. KKR-64/1 after 9 overs

4.13pm
Stats Trivia

Rana has been dismissed by SRH bowlers eight times in IPL – the most times he has been dismissed against any team in his IPL career.

4.11pm
KKR-57/1 after 8 overs

Rashid Khan is brought on now into attack. Rana has not been in form in IPL 2020 and is playing dangerous Rashid first up. Top over from Rashid. Just four off it.

4.07pm
50 up for KKR

Vijay Shankar, right-arm medium, comes into the attack. Nitish Rana has joined Gill in the middle. Fifty up for KKR in the seventh over. Gill needs to bat deep here. Just five off the over. KKR- 53/1 after 7 overs

4pm
End of Powerplay; Tripathi falls for 23

Natarajan bowls Tripathi. Lapse in concentration from the KKR opener as he falls to a wild heave. Tripathi pulls the trigger and misses it as the ball crashes into the top of the middle-stump. KKR lose their first wicket at the end of Powerplay. FOW-48/1 

3.55pm
4,4,4

Gill now attacking as he hits Thampi for three back to back fours. Nothing wrong with the deliveries but excellent footwork from Gill and deft strokeplay to score the boundaries in the over. 14 off it. KKR-42/0 after 5 overs

3.50pm
Natarajan leaks 13; good over for KKR

Natarajan comes into the attack. Tripathi was silent so far and waiting for just the kind of deliveries T Natarajan bowler, fuller and it was dispatched for six, next short and pulled for four runs. KKR-28/0 after 4 overs

3.47pm
First six of today!
Flamboyant from Tripathi!

A fullish delivery from Natarajan, misses the length as Tripathi connects with the middle of the wood and hits it straight down the ground for a maximum.

3.44pm
Yet another tight over from SRH

Sandeep continues. He is trying to keep it simple and straight at the batsmen but needs to be careful to not get too straight as both these batsmen have a good on side game. So far so good from Sandeep. Just 3 off it. KKR-15/0 after 3 overs

3.40pm

KKR-12/0 after 2 overs

3.37pm
Tripathi dropped on 6

Tripathi tries to swing one for the rope off Thampi’s delivery but the ball travels start to Rashid Khan who fails to hold on to it as SRH squanders an early chance.

3.34pm

Tripathi gets the first boundary of the day, but otherwise a decent start from SRH and Sadeep Sharma

KKR-6/0 after 1 over

3.30pm
We are underway!

Here we go. Gill-Tripathi walks out for KKR; Sandeep Sharma to start off proceedings

3.08pm
KKR Playing XI

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Rahul Tripathi, Shubman Gill, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik(w), Eoin Morgan(c), Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Lockie Ferguson, Varun Chakravarthy

 

3.07pm
SRH Playing XI

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(w), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abdul Samad, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan, Basil Thampi

 

3.05pm

Eoin Morgan – We will have to improve our basics better, we didn’t do that against MI in our last match. Two changes for us – Kuldeep and Lockie in, for Green and Prasidh. We don’t want to rush Sunil back, we’ll give him some time.

David Warner – We’ll have a bowl. The wickets have been challenging in Dubai compared to this one. Two changes for us – Thampi replaces Khaleel, we have left out a spinner

3.01pm
Toss Results

David Warner wins toss and elects to bowl first.

2.50pm
Good news for KKR!

Sunil Narine, the Kolkata Knight Riders player, has been cleared by the IPL’s Suspect Bowling Action Committee. Narine was reported for bowling with a Suspected Illegal Bowling Action during his team’s Dream11 Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 match against Kings XI Punjab in Abu Dhabi on October 10. Following the report, Narine was placed on the IPL Warning List. (Read More)

2.45pm
SRH skipper David Warner all raring to go today!

2.30pm

Hello guys and welcome to Sunday’s first double header between SRH vs KKR

Dream11 IPL 2020 Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders (SRH vs KKR) Probable XI

Dream11 IPL 2020 SRH Probable XI –  David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(w), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Abdul Samad, Abhishek Sharma, Priyam Garg, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, K Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan

Dream11 IPL 2020 KKR Probable XI – Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Nitish Rana, Andre Russell, Dinesh Karthik (WK), Eoin Morgan (C), Pat Cummins, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Shivam Mavi, Varun Chakravarthy

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