Sunrisers Hyderabad, the first team to qualify for the IPL 2018 play-offs, have been a little off the boil recently, and finished up their league fixtures with another loss – by five wickets to Kolkata Knight Riders on Saturday.
M Prasidh Krishna, just one first-class match old, returned his best T20 figures of 4-30 to stop Hyderabad at 172-9, and then it was over to Chris Lynn (55), Sunil Narine (29), Robin Uthappa (45) and Dinesh Karthik (26*) to take Kolkata home with two balls in hand.
About Narine doing the job Lynn might have been expected to do, the Australian said, “There’s not much said out in the middle. I might as well just stay at the other end. But it’s good fun. I have the best seat in the house. He can really take the momentum away from the teams nice and early. He is a cool character.”
Sunday’s fixtures are Delhi Daredevils v Mumbai and Chennai v Punjab, with Delhi out of the running, Chennai already in the play-offs, and both Mumbai and Punjab still very much in the hunt for a spot in the last four.
