Sunday, 17 April 2016

IPL 2016 SRH v/s KKR :- Gautam Gambhir continues his dream run.

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 the IPL stats from this game:-

1) This is the first time two Bangladeshi players are playing in the same IPL match.

2) This is the first fifty for Eoin Morgan in 10 T20s in 2016.

3) 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.

5) Number of runs Gautam Gambhir has scored in this year’s IPL, the most by any batsman.

Here are the top moments from this game:-

1) Gambhir's dream run with the bat:-  Gautam Gambhir continues his dream run in this years IPL. His completed his third 50 on the trought. He currently holds the orange cap for most runs in this IPL.

2) Unbreakable Opening partnership:- Robin Uthappa and Gautam Gambhir both are in great form. And it looks as if its really difficult for any bowling attack to break this opening stand. This was there ninth 50+ stand between Gautam Gambhir and Robin Uthappa for the opening while chasing in T20s.

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