After winning the toss, Sunrisers Hyderabad decided to bat. Insensible batting by Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) batsmen and economical bowling by Kolkata Knight Riders, led by Umesh Yadav, meant another low scoring game in IPL. SRH never get going due to the fall of wickets on regular intervals which affected their momentum. David Warner was the first batsman to go, but overstepping by Morne Morkel kept came in his way to pick up that wicket in the first over. Dhawan departed in the third over while Warner in the fourth over. But Eion Morgan and Naman Ojha’s sixth wicket partnership helped SRH to add plenty of runs to their total. Naman Ojha played some lusty shots to accelerate the score. Umesh Yadav took two wickets.
In reply, Gambhir and Uthappa put on a 92 runs partnership which helped KKR win the game by a handsome margin of 8 wickets.
Here are some of the funniest tweets we have compiled for you:
Gautam Gambhir 16th to aggregate 5000 runs in T20s.
4th Indian after Suresh Raina 5971, Rohit Sharma 5739 & Virat Kohli 5547#SRHvKKR#IPL— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) April 16, 2016
A player like Henriques on no 3 I don’t get this from srh when a class player like Williamson is sitting out. #SRHvKKR
— Manish Thakur (@manishthakur_) April 16, 2016
Mustafizur .?? He is really special. #SRHvKKR
— Crickmanches (@crickmanches) April 16, 2016
Russell at three, typical Gambhir, chasing the net run rate even before the win#SRHvKKR
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) April 16, 2016
How long before we have a #BringBackGambhir campaign kicking off?
— Nikhil (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 16, 2016
The best sight for a fast bowler – @Mustafiz90 @BCBtigers @KKRiders #VIVOIPLhttps://t.co/pyM91GwIpZ
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 16, 2016
Jab tak shikhar dhawan jaisa player hoga,sunrisers Hyderabad ka sun rise nahi hoga.#SRHvKKR #KKRvsSRH
— Jayant Gupta (@Jayant_1) April 16, 2016
Gambhir’s open stance is working like a charm, as seen in his cracking pulls and flicks today. His work with Langer is paying off! #SRHvsKKR
— Mohammad Kaif (@KaifSays) April 16, 2016
You can’t photoshop a ball like that#SRHvKKR
— Gaurav Sethi (@BoredCricket) April 16, 2016
Bhuvneshwar Kumar has just bowled bouncers in his last 2 overs.. Poor stuff from such an important bowler for the SRH… #SRHvKKR
— Samay turakhia (@samay_srt) April 16, 2016
Superb delivery by Mustafizur Rahman.
Faster than Amazon’s delivery.#IPL #SRHvKKR
— #afsism (@im_afsi) April 16, 2016