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Today, 3rd April 2025, the IPL match No. 15 was played at the Eden Gardens Stadium in Kolkata, West Bengal, between KKR and SRH.
SRH won the toss and elected to bowl first. KKR’s beginning was poor. Though, at the end, they put the respectable total of 200 runs for 6 wkts.
KKR put the total of 53 for 2 wkts in 6 overs. On the other hand, SRH posted a total of 33 for 3 wkt in 6 overs, which was disappointing.
Sunrisers’s bowlers were a bit expensive – Shami took 1 wkt off 29 bowls, Cummins 1/44, Ansari 1/25, H Patel 1/43, and Mendis 1 off 4 runs.
Brilliant performance by KKR’s Ajinkya Rahane scored 38 off 27, Raghuvanshi 50 off 32, Venkatesh 60 off 29, and Rinku Singh 32 off 17 bowls.
SRH batter started poorly, continued collapsing against KKR’s strong bowling attack. Klassen scored 33 off 21 bowls, Mendis 27 runs off 20 bowls.
KKR’s bowling attack was strong. A few names to mention are Vaibhav Arora 3 wkts off 29 runs, Varun 3 off 22 runs, and Andre Rusell 2 off 21 runs.
KKR’s batter Venkatesh Iyer who played blistering game, contributing critical 60 runs off 29 bowls in the middle overs.
KKR’s bowling was so strong that SRH’s the only batsman Heinrich Classen could manage to score 33 runs off 21 bowls.
KKR clinched a victory easily by not allowing SRH to chase the target 201 that they had set. SRH could manage to put up 120 in 16.4 overs.
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