In an exciting match of IPL 2025, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) by 110 runs. In this match, Hyderabad scored 278 runs while batting first, which is the third highest score in IPL history. The magnificent innings of Heinrich Klassen and Travis Head brought Hyderabad to this huge score.
Klassen played an unbeaten innings of 105 runs in 39 balls, including 9 sixes and 7 fours. Travis Head scored 76 runs in 40 balls, including 6 sixes and 6 fours. Head and Klassen shared 83-83 runs for the second and third wickets respectively. Apart from this, Ishan Kishan scored 29 runs and added 92 runs for the first wicket with Abhishek Sharma.
This day was bad for the bowlers of Kolkata Knight Riders. Sunil Narayan took two wickets for 42 runs, but the performance of the rest of the bowlers was weak. Varun Chakraborty conceded 54 runs in three overs, while Enerich Norcia took 60 runs in four overs and could not take any wickets.
KKR started chasing a target of 279 runs, not as expected. Quinton Dickock was dismissed for 9 and Sunil Narayan scored 31 runs. Ajinkya Rahane scored 15, Raghuvanshi scored 14 runs, while Manish Pandey and Harshit Rana scored 37 and 34 runs respectively. However, this batting team could not reach the target and KKR was all out for 179 runs.