IPL 2020 Highlights, KKR vs SRH Match, Full Cricket Score: Shubman Gill, Eoin Morgan lead Kolkata to victory by 7 wickets

Shubman Gill named Man of the Match!

“I think the ball wasn’t spinning that much and it’s easier to hit down the ground. I’ve practiced a lot in the past couple of years, the power hitting. As an opener it is my job to see the team through.”

Dinesh Karthik: It’s feels good to get on the board, we have been working hard. It is a privilege to use them (all-rounder) whenever I can. It is pleasing that we have been able to groom the youngsters. I was a bit emotional for Kamlesh. We stuck with him and it feels good as a captain. I want to make sure Gill is having an easy journey with no pressure.

David Warner:

“Our strength is death bowling. I thought it was actually a difficult wicket to accelerate. I don’t regret what I did at the beginning of the game and I stick by my decision. Extra 30 or 40 runs would have been great.”

This is the first time that SRH have lost five consecutive matches in IPL.

All the teams except SRH have won a game in this IPL so far.

KKR win by 7 wickets!

After 18 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 145/3 ( Shubman Gill 70 , Eoin Morgan 42)

Morgan hits a four and it’s over. KKR cross the finishing line riding the unbeaten partnership of 92 between Gill and Morgan. It’s been a brilliant day for Kolkata. Their bowlers were brilliant and while they lost few wickets, Gill showed that he can take responsibilities and Morgan got some time to spend in the middle, They should only get better from here as they secure their first win of the season.

SIX! A glorious six by Morgan. A powerful heave over cow corner after Morgan spots the short ball from Natarajan

After 17 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 131/3 ( Shubman Gill 68 , Eoin Morgan 31)

Left-arm spinner Abhishek Sharma into the attack. 11 comes from the over with Gill charging down on the first ball for a maximum down the ground. Five singles came on the next five deliveries. Just 12 needed now.

SIX! Excellent and confident shot by Gill. Comes down charging and tonks the left-arm spinner Abhishek Sharma down the ground

After 16 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 120/3 ( Shubman Gill 59 , Eoin Morgan 29)

Rashid brought back into the attack for his final over. SRH are desperately looking for a wicket but they have to wait for it. Seven from the over with Morgan slog sweeping the last ball, a full toss, for a boundary. Meanwhile, on air, Bishop and Duminy are in awe of Gill and it has been that sort of an innings. A very matured knock from the young batsman. 23 needed now.

FOUR! A full toss and Morgan was not going to miss out on that. Plays a slog sweep to square leg fence for a boundary

After 15 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 113/3 ( Shubman Gill 57 , Eoin Morgan 24)

Bhuvi back into attack. 11 comes from the over. It’s run a ball from here for KKR. The highlight of the over was the last ball six from Morgan as he slammed the wide and full delivery over the deep cover fence. Time for the strategic timeout.

SIX! A six over the cover region. That’s the shot we were waiting for from Morgan. He spotted a wide and full delivery from Bhuvi and smoked it over deep cover region.

After 14 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 102/3 ( Shubman Gill 53 , Eoin Morgan 17)

Nabi’s four overs are up and he finishes with figures of 4-0-23-0 without a wicket. Gill and Morgan have done well against him, especially Morgan. Five form this over. 41 needed from the last six overs.

After 13 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 97/3 ( Shubman Gill 51 , Eoin Morgan 15)

Bowling change. Natarajan comes in. Eight off the over as Gill smashes a boundary through square on off to get to his fifty. A very good innings by the opener as wickets fell around him. 46 needed from last seven overs.

FIFTY! Gill reaches to the landmark with a boundary off Natarajan. A beautiful square cut. He has played some beautiful shots on off today . He reaches to his fifty in 42 balls.

After 12 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 89/3 ( Shubman Gill 45 , Eoin Morgan 13)

Nine from Nabi’s over without a boundary. There was a wide and an extra run after Saha fumbled. There was leg bye, a double and a few singles. Six out of eight overs from Rashid and Nabi is over. They have got one wicket together – DK – in these six overs. SRH would have hoped for more or maybe more is to come.

After 11 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 82/3 ( Shubman Gill 40 , Eoin Morgan 12)

Eight runs from Rashid’s over. After a few quiet overs, Gill decides to break the shackle and goes for a shot on leg and clears the square leg fence.

FOUR! Gill decides to break the shackle. Hits through the line for a boundary at square leg.

After 10 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 72/3 ( Shubman Gill 34 , Eoin Morgan 10)

Nabi continues after the strategic break. Five from the over. The required rate is 7.1 and the current scoring rate is 7.2. So KKR players look pretty content right now with just rotating the strike as the field is spread.

Eoin Morgan v Mohammad Nabi in T20s:

Balls : 24
Runs : 26
Dismissals : 4
Dots : 10

After 9 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 67/3 ( Shubman Gill 31 , Eoin Morgan 8)

Seven from Rashid’s second over. Morgan added a boundary in with a reverse sweep over the short third man fielder. KKR need 76 in 66 balls and it should not be much of an issue but they are already three wickets down, so more wickets can build pressure on them.Time for the strategic break.

Dinesh Karthik’s SR in middle-overs in IPL:

Against leg-break bowlers : 118.2 (11 dismissals)
Against off-break bowlers : 123.1 (10 dismissals)

FOUR! Typical Morgan shot against the spinner. He brings out the reverse sweep and manages enough power in the shot to beat short third man fielder

After 8 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 60/3 ( Shubman Gill 29 , Eoin Morgan 3)

Another spinner Mohammad Nabi, off-spinner, comes into attack from another end. Decent over with only five singles coming from it. Rana offered a half chance with a slog sweep that bounced just ahead of Bhuvi at deep square leg.

After 7 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 55/3 ( Shubman Gill 26 , Eoin Morgan 1)

Warner waited for the powerplay to get over before bring in Rashid Khan and what a first over by the leg-spinner. Three runs and a wicket. DK was out LBW. He was bamboozled by the wrong’un. However, for some reason he decided to use the review and wasted it. Eoin Morgan came in next and had to endure two loud shouts for LBW. First time there was an inside-edge, second time, the ball would have mostly missed the off stump.

OUT! Karthik lbw b Rashid Khan 0(3)

KKR lose their third wicket and also the review. DK was outfoxed by Rashid Khan’s wrong’un. He failed to read it as the ball went past the bat and crashed into the back pad. DK for some reason decided to take a review. Replays showed there was no inside-edge and HawkEye showed three reds.

After 6 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 52/2 ( Shubman Gill 24 , Dinesh Karthik (C) (W) 0)

Rana leaves and Gill takes over the duty of hitting boundaries. Two from this over of Khaleel. Gill was offered width and if not he shuffled across to create some to find the boundaries on off. There was a chance of a run out also after DK went halfway down the track for a single but Gill didn’t respond. DK had to make a dive to save himself. Nine off the over. Powerplay over.

FOUR! Gill again making good use of the crease. Shuffling across to create room and playing the square cut past the fielder on off

FOUR! Slower ball by Khaleel but not good execution, short and wide as Gill shuffled across to hit it over cover

After 5 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 43/2 ( Shubman Gill 15 , Dinesh Karthik (C) (W) 0)

Bowling change. Natarajan comes in and an excellent over for the pacer. He gave away a low full toss first that was converted into a boundary by Rana but the bowler bounced back quickly with the wicket of the batsman. Rana was guilty of not moving his feet as tried to play a cover drive and ended up nicking it to Saha. DK is the new batsman. Five off the over.

OUT! Nitish Rana c W Saha b T Natarajan 26(13) 

Rana departs after a good looking 26. He was striking very well and would be disappointed with how he got out. Natarajan got the ball to move away just a bit but Rana was at fault for not getting close to the ball and ended up edging it to the keeper.

FOUR! This is just too easy for KKR and Rana. He is being offered a lot of loose deliveries. This time a low full toss by Natarajan and all Rana had to do was to push it down the ground

After 4 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 38/1 ( Shubman Gill 14 , Nitish Rana 22)

Another expensive over with 14 coming from it. Khaleel was hit for a hat-trick of boundaries by Rana on the first three deliveries. The first was a result of a top-edge that flew over the keeper but the second one was an excellently timed clip shot on leg. The third was a hard slash to wide of third man and to the boundary. SRH not able to contain runs in the powerplay.

FOUR! Khaleel offers some width and Rana slashes hard to beat the third man fielder. It was so quick that the fielder had no chance.

FOUR! Another boundary for Rana. Another good shot. Back of length delivery and Rana just clips it past square leg fielder

FOUR! Top-edge and four. Rana decided to go for the pull shot against Khaleel’s short ball. Didn’t get hold of the shot and the top-edge ran past the stumps.

After 3 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 24/1 ( Shubman Gill 13 , Nitish Rana 10)

An over of Nitish Rana’s brilliance but not what SRH would have wanted from Bhuvi as he gives away 12 runs. Rana scored two boundaries in the over with two beautiful punch shots through the off. Bhuvi also ended up bowling a no ball but thankful only nothing came off it.

FOUR! Another good shot by Rana. This was back of length by Bhuvi, though there was little room but Rana punched it brilliantly though the cover region

FOUR! Lovely shot by Rana. A punch in front of the square on off. He spotted the width from Bhuvi and got into the position quickly to play the shot

After 2 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 12/1 ( Shubman Gill 12 , Nitish Rana 0)

SRH needed an early breakthrough and they have got it. Khaleel removes Narine. That’s what the left-hander does. He is expensive but he gets wicket. Narine wanted to pull the back of length ball but there was very little room and he top-edged the shot to Warner. Nitish Rana is the new batsman. Gill got the only scoring shot of the over. A six over long on.

SIX! Gill was in mood to attack, came charging down to get to the pitch of the ball and smashes it over long on fence

OUT! Narine c Warner b Khaleel Ahmed 0(2)

SRH gets exactly what they needed. Narine is a pinch hitter, it’s in his nature to attack. He spotted a back of length delivery and went for a pull shot but there was no room and the top-edge flew to Warner at mid off who is pumped.

Sunil Narine in PP overs in IPL:

SR : 182.1
4/6 : 82/36

Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s numbers in PP overs in IPL:

Overs : 232.5
Wickets : 46
Average : 30.6
SR : 30.4
Eco. rate : 6.04

After 1 overs,Kolkata Knight Riders 6/0 ( Shubman Gill 6 , Sunil Narine 0)

Good start for Gill against Bhuvi in the first over. Six runs off it and two beautiful shots. A cover drive on the first ball for a double and whipping flick to deep square leg fence for a boundary.

FOUR! The First boundary of the innings and it comes from the bat of Gill. Bhuvi erred in his line, bowled on pads and Gill whipped it to deep square leg fence.

Alright, it’s time for the chase! Sunil Narine and Shubman Gill are out to bat for KKR. Gill on strike. Bhuvneshwar Kumar will bowl the first over for SRH.

142/4 looks like an under par score at the Abu Dhabi ground and SRH bowlers have a daunting task ahead of them. They will need to be better than KKR bowlers and that is going to be an extremely tough job.

After 20 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 142/4 ( Mohammad Nabi 11 , Abhishek Sharma 2)

Russell does a good job in the final over. After conceding a boundary off the first ball, he gives away just four runs from rest of the deliveries. Good bowling performance from the Knight Riders as they restrict Hyderabad to 142.   

Time for a small break.

Saha walks back to the pavilion after failing to get back to the crease on time. There was never a second run there. W Saha run out (Cummins/Karthik) 30(31)

Russell goes for a yorker but doesn’t get it right. Superb flick from Nabi!

After 19 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 133/3 ( Wriddhiman Saha 30 , Mohammad Nabi 6)

Mavi to bowl the penultimate over of the innings. Nabi takes advantage of the short-pitched ball for a four but then Mavi bowls a slower one to beat the batsman. Third ball is a slower bouncer for one run and then the next one is also a slower one but this time, he pitches it up. Saha is beaten. A wide and dot to finish the over.

Nabi smashes hard on the off-side against Mavi for a four!

After 18 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 127/3 ( Wriddhiman Saha 30 , Mohammad Nabi 1)

Andre Russell for the first time with the ball tonight. Round the wicket to both right-handers and does well to give away just three singles in the first three balls. The fourth ball is a high full-toss and Pandey gives a simple catch to the bowler. The on-field umpires take the help of third umpire and replays show the ball is just below the waist. The last ball results in an unfortunate four.

Leading edge and the fielder at third-man misjudges the catch. Four crucial runs for Saha and SRH!

Russell strikes with a high full-toss as Pandey departs after playing a good knock. Manish Pandey c and b Russell 51(38)

After 17 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 118/2 ( Manish Pandey 50 , Wriddhiman Saha 24)

Cummins into the attack. Good start from the pacer, giving away two singles in the first two balls. After the four in the third ball, Cummins comes back well to give away just two runs from the three balls. That’s the end of Cummins when it comes to bowling. Four overs, 19 runs for one wicket.

Good work from Manish Pandey but he knows the job is not done yet. 50 off 35 balls.

Just wide from the man at mid-off. Manish Pandey gets the boundary!

After 16 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 110/2 ( Manish Pandey 44 , Wriddhiman Saha 22)

Varun to Manish Pandey. Flight in the first ball as Pandey goes for the big hit but fails in the timing so just one run. Saha comes down the track and hits the ball straight to deep square-leg fielder for another single. Pandey then finds the gap on the leg-side and takes two runs. After a single, Saha leaves the fifth ball expecting it to be signalled wide but on-field umpire says no. A six to end his quote of four overs. Nevertheless, good effort from the spinner.

Finally!

Saha down the track and beats the deep square-leg fielder for a much-needed six!

After 15 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 99/2 ( Manish Pandey 40 , Wriddhiman Saha 15)

Narine in for his final over. Saha not going for the big hits yet. Takes a single off the first ball. Pandey then hits straight to mid-wicket fielder for one run. Saha attempts a slog sweep in the third ball but misses it and it’s a leg-bye one run. Three singles in the final three balls. So Narine finishes his four, giving away 31 runs for no wickets.

Manish Pandey’s SR in middle-overs in IPL:

2017 – 117.3
2018 – 111.2
2019 – 116.0
Overall – 118.7

After 14 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 93/2 ( Manish Pandey 37 , Wriddhiman Saha 13)

Nagarkoti continues. Saha tries for the big hit in the first ball but fails to find the gap. He takes two and follows it up with another double on the off-side. In the third ball, he tries to beat the mid-wicket fielder but once again fails to find the gap. Just a single. Pandey smashes a four but Nagarkoti does well in the following deliveries. Two singles to end the over. Timeout now!

Nagarkoti overpitches and Pandey comes up with a good-looking drive for a boundary.

After 13 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 82/2 ( Manish Pandey 32 , Wriddhiman Saha 7)

Narine to bowl the over. Manish Pandey takes a double after pushing the ball to the long-off region, taking advantage of the big boundary. He goes for a slog in the next one but hits it straight to deep mid-wicket fielder for a single. Two dots against Saha and a double from Pandey in the final ball. SRH need to up the ante now.

After 12 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 76/2 ( Manish Pandey 27 , Wriddhiman Saha 6)

Third over for Varun. Both batsmen are careful in their approach against the spinner. They don’t want to take any risk against him. The fifth ball is a poor one and it results in a boundary. A single to end the over. Despite the four, it’s still a good one for KKR.

Wide and full from Varun as Manish Pandey gets the bottom edge and the ball beats the keeper.

After 11 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 68/2 ( Manish Pandey 21 , Wriddhiman Saha 4)

Kamlesh Nagarkoti comes into the attack. He’s generating good pace as the first delivery is above 140 kph. The second ball on the leg-stump and Saha flicks it for a double. He follows it up with a similar delivery but this time, Saha’s timing is off. The bowler then tries for a slower ball but he strays off the line and it’s a wide. A dot and a single to end the over.

After 10 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 61/2 ( Manish Pandey 19 , Wriddhiman Saha 1)

Top over from Varun Chakravarthy. After dismissing Warner, he bowls a superb delivery to new batsman Wriddhiman Saha who misses the shot and the ball hits the pads. Umpire says no out but KKR take the review. DRS says it’s umpire’s call when hitting the stumps so Saha survives. Just two runs from the over.

BIG WICKET!

David Warner hands a simple catch to bowler Varun. Soft dismissal and the skipper must be livid with himself. Warner c and b Chakravarthy 36(30)

After 9 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 59/1 ( David Warner (C) 36 , Manish Pandey 18)

Kuldeep continues. Flight on offer but Manish fails to get proper timing in his shot. He’s successful in the next ball as he takes Kuldeep to cleaners with a fantastic hit over deep mid-wicket. Manish again comes down the track in the third ball but this time, it’s only a single. So four singles off the last four balls. Time for strategic timeout!

Manish Pandey with the big hit. Dancing down the track and he clears the deep mid-wicket boundary!

Manish Pandey with the big hit. Dancing down the track and he clears the deep mid-wicket boundary!

After 8 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 49/1 ( David Warner (C) 34 , Manish Pandey 10)

Spinner Varun Chakravarthy has the ball now. Starts off with a wideish ball for a single. He does well to keep Manish Pandey in check in the next two balls. The fourth ball is short and Pandey goes for the big hit but he could only grab one run. A misfield near the deep square-leg boundary results in two runs for Warner. No run off the last ball.

Kuldeep Yadav’s economy rate in middle-overs in IPL:

2016 : 8.60
2017 : 8.08
2018 : 8.05
2019 : 8.41
2020 : 9.84

After 7 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 45/1 ( David Warner (C) 31 , Manish Pandey 9)

Kuldeep is introduced into the attack. For the first ball, Warner comes down the track and drives on the off-side for a double. Again he steps out in the second ball but this time it’s only a single. Pandey tries for a quick single but he is sent back by Warner. After a single, Warner goes for a slog but gets the timing all wrong and it results in only one run. A dot to end the over.

David Warner v Kuldeep Yadav in IPL:

Runs : 53
Balls : 37
Dismissals : 2
Dots : 13
SR : 143.24

After 6 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 40/1 ( David Warner (C) 27 , Manish Pandey 8)

Cummins bowls his third over of the night. Not giving any room to Warner to free his arms so he resorts to just a single in the second ball. The third ball is on the stumps and Pandey flicks for another single. The pacer comes back well after conceding the boundary. A single to end the over. So end of powerplay! Cummins’ three overs results in 11 runs.

Short from Cummins and Warner finds the gap on the leg-side. Top shot!

After 5 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 33/1 ( David Warner (C) 21 , Manish Pandey 7)

Shivam Mavi into the attack. The fist ball is on the pads to Warner and it results in a single. He offers room to Manish Pandey but the new batsman is watchful. No such hesitation in the fourth ball as he punishes Mavi for bowling short. Two singles to end the over.

Shivam Navi’s economy rate in PP overs in IPL is 8.73.

Short from Mavi and Manish Pandey comes up with his pull! A bit like Rohit Sharma!

After 4 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 24/1 ( David Warner (C) 19 , )

Cummins takes the ball. The first ball is an inside edge single from Bairstow. Warner then goes for a slog but misses the shot. The ball also misses the stumps. After a single, Bairstow tries to cut the ball but gets beaten. Bairstow then tries to innovate and goes for the ramp shot but misses it and the catch is taken by the keeper. Umpire gives it out but the batsman takes a quick review and replays show the bat is nowhere near the ball. A wicket to end the over. So two superb overs from Cummins.

BOWLED! 

Cummins is happy as he knocks the off-stump. Bairstow walks back to the pavilion. Bairstow b Cummins 5(10)

After 3 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 22/0 ( David Warner (C) 18 , Jonny Bairstow (W) 4)

Narine continues. Sensible cricket from the skipper. After smashing the six, he takes a single. The last ball is pitched on the shorter side and Warner punishes Narine. So costly over from the spinner. A six, a four and four singles.

Finds the gap on the on-side and it’s another boundary for Warner.

First maximum of the day! Warner takes on Narine and clears the deep mid-wicket boundary!

After 2 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 8/0 ( David Warner (C) 6 , Jonny Bairstow (W) 2)

Pat Cummins into the attack. The first ball is on the stumps and it’s a dot. Similar second ball but this time, Bairstow manages to grab a single on the off-side. In the next ball, Warner gets an inside edge but he’s safe. Again on the stumps and Warner does well to block the fourth ball. The skipper takes a quick single in the fifth ball. A dot to end the over so good start from the Aussie pacer.

After 1 overs,Sunrisers Hyderabad 6/0 ( David Warner (C) 5 , Jonny Bairstow (W) 1)

Narine pitches up the first ball and Warner drives to the off-side for a double. He tries the same shot in the next ball but this time, it is straight to fielder. Third ball is a dot. He then takes a double thanks to brilliant running between the wickets. Two singles to end the over so six from the first over.

Time for some cricketing action! 

SRH openers David Warner and Jonny Bairstow take charge. Spin to start off for KKR as Sunil Narine takes the new ball.

SR in PP overs in IPL:

David Warner : 138.9
Jonny Bairstow : 148.6

David Warner v KKR in IPL:

Innings – 21
Runs – 829
Average – 43.63
SR – 147.77
50/100 – 4/2

KKR v SRH in IPL:

Matches played : 17
KKR won : 10
SRH won : 7

KKR playing XI: Sunil Narine, Shubman Gill, Dinesh Karthik (capt, wk), Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Pat Cummins, Varun CV, Kuldeep Yadav, Shivam Mavi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti

SRH playing XI: Jonny Bairstow (wk), David Warner (capt), Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Mohammad Nabi, Wriddhiman Saha, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed, T Natarajan

Three changes for SRH:

Nabi replaces Mitch Marsh. Saha comes in for Vijay Shankar. Sandeep Sharma out and in comes Khaleel. 

Two changes for KKR:

Nagarkoti and Varun in for Sandeep and Nikhil.

TOSS UPDATE:

SRH win the toss and elect to bat first.

Pitch report: A pronounced green grass covering. We haven’t seen a lot of swing with the new ball, it will be interesting to see how it goes. The only advantage down the ground is that wind will push the ball when you hit it but all in all, it’s a beautiful surface, reckon Ian Bishop and JP Duminy.

Injury concerns

SRH have replaced Mitch March with Jason Holder however, the West Indies all-rounder will not feature tonight. Afghanistan’s Mohammad Nabi might get the chance to play. 

We will have to wait and see if Kane Williamson is fit to play the match. 

No injury problems for KKR.

DK backs Pat Cummins

KKR’s expensive buy Pat Cummins, for whom they dished out Rs 15 crore, gave away 49 runs in three overs against MI. KKR skipper Karthik, however, is not losing his sleep over Cummins’ expensive spell. He’s confident Cummins will come good for the Kolkata franchise. 

“Just the fact that he (Cummins) is a world champion bowler, from whatever I have heard and seen he is one of the best going around in the world. I trust him and I’m sure, he will come good,” said Karthik after the MI match.

Milestones approaching:

Andre Russell is 89 runs away from 1500 IPL runs
Siddarth Kaul is one wicket short of 50 IPL wickets
Sunil Narine is 5 big hits away from completing 50 IPL sixes

Teams’ record at Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Stadium

Let’s turn our focus back to today’s match. Here’s how the teams have fared at today’s venue:

KKR: Played 4, Won 1, Lost 3

SRH: Played 1, Lost 1

How can CSK bounce back?

The last time CSK failed to win two consecutive run-chases in the IPL, Sachin Tendulkar was still an active Indian cricketer, India were yet to have won the Champions Trophy and no team barring CSK had won multiple IPL titles. The year was 2013.

So, what do they need to do to get back to their best. According to Yash Jha, they need a lot of changes including bringing in Imran Tahir into the playing XI and pushing Murali Vijay out. Click here to read what ‘archaic’ CSK need to do now to bounce back.

Recap: DC beat CSK to jump to top of table

There’s still some time to go for today’s match, so let’s recap yesterday’s match in which DC defeated CSK to collect their second win in as many matches. 

Young Prithvi Shaw struck a fluent half-century and shared a 94-run opening stand with Shikhar Dhawan to guide DC to 175 for three. In reply, CSK skipper MS Dhoni did not push himself up the order, given the expectations after his decision to hold himself back in the game against RR backfired, which meant the veteran again did not have enough time and balls to take his side home. Almost all the batters from CSK struggled and eventually they lost by 44 runs.

A look at squads for both teams:

SRH: David Warner(c), Jonny Bairstow(w), Kane Williamson, Manish Pandey, Priyam Garg, Vijay Shankar, Abhishek Sharma, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sandeep Sharma, T Natarajan, Wriddhiman Saha, Shreevats Goswami, Siddarth Kaul, Mohammad Nabi, Shahbaz Nadeem, Jason Holder, Bavanaka Sandeep, Billy Stanlake, Fabian Allen, Virat Singh, Basil Thampi, K Khaleel Ahmed, Sanjay Yadav, Abdul Samad

KKR: Shubman Gill, Sunil Narine, Dinesh Karthik(w/c), Nitish Rana, Eoin Morgan, Andre Russell, Nikhil Naik, Pat Cummins, Shivam Mavi, Kuldeep Yadav, Sandeep Warrier, Rahul Tripathi, Siddhesh Lad, Chris Green, Prasidh Krishna, Lockie Ferguson, Rinku Singh, Ali Khan, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Tom Banton, Varun Chakravarthy, Manimaran Siddharth

SRH rope in Jason Holder

SRH’s Mitchell Marsh has been ruled out of the remainder of the ongoing IPL after the Australian suffered an ankle injury during their opening match against RCB. West Indian Jason Holder has been named Marsh’s replacement.

Holder will not be available for today’s match. He will first need to undergo a six-day quarantine period.

Dinesh Karthik in focus

Much was expected from a revamped KKR set-up but it seemed skipper Dinesh Karthik did not learn from his past mistakes and made some inexplicable decisions that led to their complete capitulation against MI.

Once again, the batting position of their biggest hitter Andre Russell became the talking point in their 49-run loss.

The Jamaican, who was their highest run-getter last season with 510 runs, was seen at No 6 but by then the task had become extremely difficult. England captain Eoin Morgan batted at No 5. Karthik’s captaincy will be in focus today as KKR look to bounce back after a heavy defeat.

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Hello and welcome to Game 8 of IPL 2020. And today we have a match between the two sides who lost their first games. KKR come into that match after losing to MI while SRH lost their tournament opener against RCB. The batting was the major concern area for the both the franchises in those loses and whichever team manages to bat well today should win the game as well. Stay tuned for all the updates, live score and over-by-over commentary.