Match – 43rd IPL 2014 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders
Date – Sun May 18
Time – 20:00 local | 14:30 GMT
Venue – Rajiv Gandhi Int. Stadium, Hyderabad
Toss – Sunrisers Hyderabad elected to bat
Result – Kolkata Knight Riders won by 7 wickets
Man of the match – Umesh Yadav

Kolkata Knight Riders thrashed Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets to keep their hopes to qualify for playoffs intact.

Chasing 143 to win, KKR lost captain Gautam Gambhir in the second over when the team score was just 8 but Robin Uthappa and Manish Pandey then steadied the innings nd took the score past 50. Robin Uthappa (40 off 33 balls) was then run out by Sammy when the team score was 59. Manish Pandey and Yusuf Pathan then played sensible cricket as they knew its just that they have to play complete overs and runs will come. Sunrisers total was not so high that it could exert any pressure, the only way they could win was to take wickets which the duo denied. They took the score past 100 run mark after which Pandey got out after scoring 35. Yusuf Pathan continued from the other end and remained unbeaten on 39 and was well supported by Ryan ten Doeschate who played a cameo of 25 in 15 balls to take his team to a superb 7 wicket win.

Earlier Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and elected to bat first. Aaron Finch and Shikhar Dhawan opened the innings but Umesh Yadav got the first breakthrough in form of Finch in the second over when the team score was just 14. Shikhar Dhawan started well but could not capitalize on his start and got out after scoring 14 ball 19. Naman Ojha and David Warner too got starts but could not build on it but David Warner’s cameo of 34 in 18 balls along with Irfan Pathan’s 23 helped Sunrisers post a total of 142/8 in 20 overs. Umesh Yadav was the pick of the bowlers as he took 3/26 in his 4 overs.

Match – 43rd IPL 2014 – Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders Scorecard