IPL 2018: Rashid’s All-Round Effort Against KKR Put SRH In Final
Wonder man from Afghanistan Rashid Khan produced
an all-round effort to guide Sunrisers Hyderabad to a 13-run win
over Kolkata Knight Riders at
the Eden Gardens in Kolkata on Friday to
take the visitors to the final of the Indian Premier League 2018.
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| RASHID KHAN PHOTO:(BCCI) |
Rashid
(34 not out off 10) first
played a late cameo with the bat to help Sunrisers
overcome a wobbly start
and post a challenging 174 /7 and then
returned with a 3/19 spell from his four overs to
guide his side to their second IPL final appearance.
Besides his exploits with the bat
and ball, Rashid grabbed two important catches at
deep mid-wicket in the final over of the innings to emerge as the stand-out
performer.
In their pursuit of 175, KKR were off to a scintillating start
scoring 40 off 3.2 overs before Sunil Narine perished caught by Carlos Brathwaite off Siddharth Kaul
(2/32).
But by then Narine and Chris
Lynn (48 off 31) had
already done the initial damage as they went hammer and tongs against the Sunrisers bowlers from the word go.
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| SUNIL NARINE (PHOTO:BCCI) |
Narine made
26
off 13 balls with
the help of
4
boundaries
and 1
six
before
departing.
But that didn't
stop Lynn and new man in Nitish
Rana
(22) as
the duo continued to bat aggressively and picked
up boundaries and sixes at will to take KKR to 81 for one after eight overs.
To make matters worse for KKR,
skipper Dinesh Karthik
was
castled by Shakib Al
Hasan in the 12th over
before Rashid caught set batsman Lynn plumb in
front of the wicket in the next over as the Australian went for a sweep.
Piyush Chawla scored a
run-a-ball 12 before getting out but it was young
Shubman
Gill (30) who kept KKR in the hunt,
hitting Kaul over mid-off boundary in the last
ball off
the penultimate over to bring down the equation to 19
off last over.
Shivam Mavi then hit Brathwaite
for a boundary in the first ball off the final
over before
the West Indian picked
up Mavi
and Gill with consecutive deliveries to
shut the door for the hosts.
Rashid
stepped on the gas in Prasidh Krishna's final
over with
two
sixes that
yielded 24 runs.Having started off on an impressive
note, Krishna finished
with poor figures of 56
runs from
his four overs to
undo all the good work done
by Kuldeep and Narine.
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