Sunrisers Hyderabad continued their winning run this season with an emphatic 5-wicket win over Kolkata Knight Riders.

Set a modest total of 139, Sunrisers Hyderabad were off to an ideal start. Shikhar Dhawan and Wriddhiman Saha added a quickfire 32 off just 18 ball before Sunil Narine dismissed the latter. In his next over, Narine struck again to remove the in-form Dhawan, helping Knight Riders crawl their way back. At the end of the powerplay, the Sunrisers were 46 for 2 with skipper Kane Williamson and Manish Pandey taking charge of the chase.

Kuldeep Yadav then put the hosts on top by dismissing Pandey to leave the tourists reeling at 55 for 3. At the end of ten overs, Sunrisers were 62 for 3. Williamson and Shakib Al Hasan calmed down the nerves in the dressing room.

It looked like the Sunrisers would get home easily when Williamson and Shakib were batting. However, the game turned on its head when both of them departed in quick succession, leaving their side reeling at 119 for 5. The equation was finally down to 13 off the last two overs. Yusuf Pathan and Deepak Hooda then took the team home with 6 balls remaining.

Earlier in the game, the Knight Riders lost wickets at regular intervals and ended up with a sub-par score. The experiment to promote Robin Uthappa as opener backfired as he was out for just 3. Chris Lynn and Nitish Rana steadied the ship for a while with a 39-run stand. The stand was broken by Billy Stanlake when he had Rana.

The floodgates opened when Shakib Al Hasan dismissed Sunil Narine for 9 with the scoreboard reading 79. From there on, the hosts kept on losing wickets at regulars as they could manage only 138 for 8 in the allotted 20 overs. Lynn top-scored for the home side, scoring 49 off 34.

Here is how Twitter reacted to the game:

Shubman Gill at 7. Mavi not getting to bowl till 14th over. KKR has pretty much played with 9 men today. #KKRvSRH #IPL

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) April 14, 2018

Good news for SRH – Yusuf in the middle
Bad news for SRH – Yusuf in the middle #IPL

— cricBC (@cricBC) April 14, 2018

https://twitter.com/SirIshantSharma/status/985218361171771392

Reason why SRH is the best team of #IPL2018 –

Kane Williamson is the only non-Indian captain, so he is not called for the shooting of Jio Dhan Dhana Dhan ads and he thus he gets time to focus on team strategy.

— Sagar (@sagarcasm) April 14, 2018

Dinesh Karthik is so unpredictable, he played Shivam Mavi as a batsman. #IPL2018

— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak) April 14, 2018

Manish Pandey is definitely waiting for me to drop him from my Fantasy XIs before he starts performing.

— Shubh Aggarwal (@shubh_chintak) April 14, 2018

To seal the matchHyderabad looking for one substantial partnership, Kolkata for one more wicket

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 14, 2018

yaar ye srh wale kisi ko run banane dete nahi aur fir khud dheere dheere chase karte hain#SRHvMI

— sunil the cricketer (@1sInto2s) April 12, 2018

Wriddhiman Saha smashing Mitchell Johnson. pic.twitter.com/SGfOb9T983

— Nikhil ? (@CricCrazyNIKS) April 14, 2018

Hyderabad have looked best side in the tournament – home and away — in fielding and bowling. Now to see how they chase down a modest score

— Cricketwallah (@cricketwallah) April 14, 2018

Commentator : So what do you think of your score ?

Kartik : If we can bowl and field well, we can give them a fight

Vinay Kumar : I think we are 100 short..

— The Lying Lama 2.0 (@KyaUkhaadLega) April 14, 2018