Cummins to Narine, FOUR, Narine gets off the mark in style! Pitched up around off, right in Narine's eyeline and he loves it there. He clears his front leg and smashes it over the leaping fielder at mid-off to find the fence
Pat Cummins, right-arm fast, comes into the attack
0.6
Bhuvneshwar to Gurbaz, no run, full ball outside off, swinging away a touch, Gurbaz leans into it and drives it crisply to extra cover
Klaasen goes back to his original position
0.5
Bhuvneshwar to Gurbaz, 2 runs, full ball outside off, swinging away, Gurbaz opens his bat-face to place it past point and comes back for the second run
0.4
Bhuvneshwar to Gurbaz, no run, length ball outside off, some nibble in the air, Gurbaz goes for an expansive drive and misses.
Klaasen is standing up to the stumps now
0.3
Bhuvneshwar to Gurbaz, no run
0.2
Bhuvneshwar to Gurbaz, FOUR, lovely shot! Pitched up outside off, swinging away, Gurbaz leans into it and essays a lovely drive through covers to get the desired result. Good way to get off the mark
0.1
Bhuvneshwar to Gurbaz, no run, Gurbaz walks down the track first ball to negate the swing and plays the fullish ball with soft hands towards short mid-wicket
Gurbaz and Narine are at the crease. Gurbaz is on strike. Bhuvneshwar will open the attack
20 wickets by Varun Chakaravarthy this season is the joint-most for him in an IPL edition. Last year he took 20 wickets as well.
Highest 10th wicket partnership in the IPL 55* - Shikhar Dhawan & M Rathee (PBKS) vs SRH, Hyderabad, 2023 33 - Pat Cummins & V Viyaskanth (SRH) vs KKR, Ahmedabad, 2024* 31* - Tom Curran & Ankit Rajpoot (RR) vs KKR, Dubai, 2020 31 - Andre Russell & CV Varun (KKR) vs DC, Delhi, 2023
Best bowling figures for KKR in the playoffs 4/21 - Sunil Narine vs RCB, Sharjah, 2021 3/13 - Umesh Yadav vs PBKS, Kolkata, 2014 3/20 - Nathan Coulter-Nile vs SRH, Bengaluru, 2017 3/34 - Mitchell Starc vs SRH, Ahmedabad, 2024* 3/35 - Kuldeep Yadav vs SRH, Delhi, 2016
Mitch Starc: I have been fortunate enough to play on some big occasions, nice to get our team off to a good start, we know how SRH matched us in terms of attacking with the bat in the powerplay. Their (Head and Abhishek) partnership has been the key for them and to get both of them out cheaply, it's really pleasing. The wicket's got a bit skidier and there is some swing as well, I feel the wicket will get better with dew and the powerplay will be really key for us.
21:17 Local Time, 15:47 GMT, 21:17 IST:
Mitch Starc: I have been fortunate enough to play on some big occasions, nice to get our team off to a good start, we know how SRH matched us in terms of attacking with the bat in the powerplay. Their (Head and Abhishek) partnership has been the key for them and to get both of them out cheaply, it's really pleasing. The wicket's got a bit skidier and there is some swing as well, I feel the wicket will get better with dew and the powerplay will be really key for us.
19.3
Russell to Cummins, out Caught by Gurbaz!! Cummins c Gurbaz b Russell 30(24) [4s-2 6s-2]