‘He Was the Finest Tonight’: Varun Chakravarthy Hails Ajinkya Rahane’s Captaincy As KKR Beat SRH in IPL 2025

Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) spinner Varun Chakravarthy was stuffed with reward for his group’s skipper Ajinkya Rahane following their dominant win over Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) within the IPL 2025 on Thursday.

Varun hails Rahane’s captaincy

Varun Chakravarthy completed with spectacular figures of three/22 as Kolkata Knight Riders clinched an 80-run win over Sunrisers Hyderabad, who had been all out for 120 whereas seeking to chase down a goal of 201. “He (Rahane) is captaining us for the primary time, he was the very best tonight,” Varun mentioned after the match.

How the KKR vs SRH match turned out to be

Sunrisers Hyderabad had gained the toss and requested Kolkata Knight Riders to bat first on the Eden Gardens. The hosts, nevertheless, received off to a shaky begin as they misplaced openers Quinton de Kock (1) and Sunil Narine (7) within the powerplay. Nevertheless, skipper Ajinkya Rahane (38) and Angkrish Raghuvanshi (50) led Kolkata Knight Riders’ restoration with an 81-run stand for the third wicket.

Regardless of the dismissals of Ajinkya Rahane and Angkrish Raghuvanshi inside an area of three overs, Venkatesh Iyer (60) and Rinku Singh (32*) made positive Kolkata Knight Riders posted a difficult whole of 200/6. Within the guests’ run chase, other than Varun, Vaibhav Arora (3/29), Harshit Rana (1/15), Andre Russell (2/21) and Sunil Narine (1/30) had been all among the many wickets.

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Sunrisers Hyderabad’s top-order batters together with openers Travis Head (4) and Abhishek Sharma (2) failed miserably. The center-order batters together with Nitish Kumar Reddy (19), Kamindu Mendis (27) and Heinrich Klaasen (33) all received off to begins however did not convert them.

SRH at rock-bottom of IPL standings

The loss means Sunrisers Hyderabad discover themselves on the backside of the IPL 2025 standings with two factors from 4 matches. Kolkata Knight Riders, however, rise to fifth place with 4 factors from as many matches.

Kolkata Knight Riders, led by Shreyas Iyer, had clinched their third IPL title final yr by beating Sunrisers Hyderabad by eight wickets within the ultimate.

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