Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 8 wickets and registered their second win in three wins.
After choosing to bat first, Sunrisers were never in a position to put on a big total on the board as they kept on losing wickets at regular intervals. Eoin Morgan and Naman Ojha tried to pull things back with a 67 run partnership for the fifth wicket, but the Madhya Pradesh wicket-keeper lost his wicket against the run of play. Umesh Yadav picked three wickets for the visitors while Morgan scored a fifty for the Sunrisers and helped them put up a decent total of 142 on the board.
Chasing 143 to win, Kolkata were off to a great start courtesy Robin Uthappa and Gautam Gambhir as the duo put on yet another 50+ partnership before Uthappa perished. Gambhir reached his fifty and made sure he stayed till the end and took his team home. Here are some stats from the match:
1- This is the first time two Bangladeshi players are playing in the same IPL match.
1- This is the first fifty for Eoin Morgan in 10 T20s in 2016.
3- Number of times Umesh Yadav has dismissed David Warner in T20s. He bowled 18 balls to him and conceded 28 runs
9- Ninth 50+ stand between Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa for the opening while chasing in T20s, equals the record of Gambhir and Virender Sehwag.
4- Gautam Gambhir becomes the fourth Indian to score 5000 T20 runs.
20- 20th fifty for Gautam Gambhir as a captain. the most by any captain in T20s
28- Gautam Gambhir scored his 28th IPL fifty, the most by any batsman in IPL.
41- Gautam Gambhir overtakes Virat Kohli in the list of most number of fifties without a hundred in T20s, the most by any batsman.
52- Runs scored by Sunrisers Hyderabad in the first ten overs - the second lowest by any team in these overs in this IPL
67- The 67 run partnership between Naman Ojha and Eoin Morgan is the highest fifth-wicket partnership for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
90- This is Gautam Gambhir's second-highest score in T20s. Highest is 93 vs RCB in 2012.
192- Number of runs Gautam Gambhir has scored in this year’s IPL, the most by any batsman.
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