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India batter Venkatesh Iyer smashed 60 off 29 balls to fire holders Kolkata Knight Riders to an 80-run hammering of Sunrisers Hyderabad in a resurgence IPL win on Thursday.Iyer&& s knock and 91-run stand with fellow left-hander Rinku Singh moved Kolkata to 200-6 at their home in Eden Gardens after being welcomed to bat initially in a rematch of last year&& s last, AFP reported.Iyer showed his worth in a blitz laced with 7 fours and 3 sixes after Kolkata paid a whopping $2.81 million for him in the November auction.Skipper Ajinkya Rahane, who hit 38, and Angkrish Raghuvanshi, who struck 50, lay the structures of the overall in their collaboration of 81 after openers fell early.Bowlers led by effect replacement Vaibhav Arora bowled Hyderabad out for 120 in 16.4 overs as Kolkata recuperated from a crushing defeat to Mumbai Indian in their previous video game early this week.&& This game was actually crucial for us,& & said Rahane.
& Winning by a huge margin was important for us.&&& & Last 2 video games were not up to the mark for us.
However we found out a lot from our errors.
This is an excellent example for us as a batting system.&& Kolkata moved from the bottom to 5th in the 10-team table and Hyderabad sunk to the last area with 3 defeats in 4 matches.&& Not a terrific night tonight,& & stated Hyderabad skipper Pat Cummins.&& In the mid-innings break, we believed it was gettable.
It was a pretty good wicket.
Handed out couple of too many in the field and certainly fell short (with the bat).&& Arora impactArora, who was named gamer of the match for his figures of 3-29, and spinner Varun Chakravarthy took three wickets each.Iyer and batters set up success in spite of the loss of Quinton de Kock, for one, and Sunil Narine, for 7, inside the very first three overs.Cummins removed De Kock and fellow quick Mohammed Shami dismissed Narine before Rahane hit back with a flurry of boundaries.The 20-year-old Raghuvanshi signed up with forces with the captain as he reached his fifty and hit 5 fours and two sixes in his 32-ball knock.Kolkata appeared to slip after Rahane and after that Raghuvanshi departed and Iyer took some time to get going but once set he proved devastating and smashed Cummins for three fours and a six in a 21-run 19th over.Iyer, who fell in the final over, and Rinku, who hit 32, integrated to pound the opposition bowlers in the last five overs, which produced 78 runs.In reply, Hyderabad were in problem at 9-3 and after that 44-4 after seam bowler Arora struck 2 early blows including Australia&& s Travis Head out on the 2nd ball for four.Left-handed opener Abhishek Sharma fell to Harshit Rana and Arora made it three down after he dismissed another left-hander Ishant Kishan for two.Sri Lanka&& s IPL debutant Kamindu Mendis struck 27 before he ended up being Sunil Narine&& s wicket and the rest of the batting crumbled.South African wicketkeeper-batsman Heinrich Klaasen made 33 in a disappointing show by Hyderabad.Friday&& s MatchTINS Television will broadcast today&& s match live and exclusively in Afghanistan.
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