Travis Head yet again gave the Sunrisers Hyderabad a flying start with a rasping 42* from just 19 balls out of a Power Play total of 71-1 after choosing to bat first in their Tata IPL match against the Kolkata Knight Riders at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday.
Head’s opening partner, Abhishek Sharma, mistimed a pull to depart for 15 but Head was in vintage hitting form eight fours and a six taking 17 runs from Vaibhav Arora’s opening over and another 14 from countryman Cameron Green’s first.
Captain Ishan Kishan was unbeaten on 13 from seven balls with a four and a six at one of the tournament’s highest scoring venues.
SUNRISERS HYDERABAD: Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora (wkt), Aniket Verma, Smaran Ravichandran, Pat Cummins (captain), Shivang Kumar, Harshal Patel, Eshan Malinga
Impact subs: Praful Hinge, Harsh Dubey, Liam Livingstone, Sakib Hussain, Zeeshan Ansari
KOLKATA KNIGHT RIDERS: Ajinkya Rahane (captain), Angkrish Raghuvanshi (wkt), Cameron Green, Rovman Powell, Manish Pandey, Rinku Singh, Anukul Roy, Sunil Narine, Vaibhav Arora, Kartik Tyagi, Varun Chakaravarthy