The KKR captain has decided to go on the offensive and has brought in Umran Malik to bowl the final over of the powerplay. The first ball is top-edged over short fine leg, and the second ball is pulled over midwicket.
Nitish Rana is showing his class and smashes the third ball past midwicket, and the fourth ball is hit over extra cover, which takes KKR’s score to 50. With one ball left to go, the over has yielded 22 runs, and the momentum has shifted towards KKR.
Nitish Rana’s explosive batting has taken him to 30 off just 10 balls, and KKR’s score now stands at 62/3 after six overs. They were struggling at 34/3 before the captain’s intervention. This is truly a captain’s knock from Nitish Rana.
Earlier, KKR won the toss and chose to bowl first. SRH put up a formidable total, with Harry Brook leading the way with an unbeaten century off 55 balls. Aiden Markram scored a quickfire half-century, while Abhishek Sharma and Heinrich Klaasen also chipped in with useful contributions.
KKR’s Andre Russell was the pick of the bowlers with three wickets, but he had to be helped off the pitch after bowling the first ball of the third over. Chasing a target of 229, KKR got off to a slow start, but Venkatesh Iyer is trying to change that.