Delhi: On Thursday, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025) registered a stunning win against Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) (by 80 runs). In this match, Venkatesh Iyer’s explosive innings and Varun Chakraborty and Vaibhav Arora’s best bowling played an important role. However, the foundation of this victory was laid by captain Ajinkya Rahane’s innings of 38 runs in 27 balls, which despite the initial tremors, handled the team and set the aggressive rhythm for the next batting.
After the match, Ajinkya Rahane said, “This match was very important for us. We also wanted to bowl first on this pitch, but after the first two wickets fell early, we focused on stabilizing the situation in the powerplay. Our plan was to play cricketing shots and when the wickets are in hand, the lower order batsmen can add more and more runs.”
Expressing satisfaction over his team’s performance, Rahane said, “I am happy with the batting unit. Our performance in the last two matches was not as expected, but we learned a lot from our mistakes. In this match, our batsmen set excellent examples. Batsmen like Rinku and Venkatesh are with us, who are capable of playing big shots, while Ramandeep Dugout was also ready and Moin Ali was also ready.”
Significantly, this victory has increased the confidence of the Kolkata Knight Riders team and they are ready to perform strong further. Now the thing to be seen will be whether KKR will maintain its campaign for this victory or not.
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