IPL 2018 Match 25 KXIP vs SRH Live Streaming on Hotstar

Earlier, riding on wonder spinner Rashid Khan’s brilliant effort, SunRisers Hyderabad produced an inspired bowling display to eke out a fighting 13-run win over in-form Kings XI Punjab in a low-scoring IPL match.

Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kings XI Punjab latest updates: Hello and welcome to CricketCountry’s live coverage of VIVO Indian Premier League (IPL) 2018 Match 25. These losses can happen in this format and these sort of games do happen in IPL, we have to move on.

Kings XI came into this clash on the back of four straight wins and they were made to rue a number of missed chances in the field as Sunrisers were able to scrape their way to 132-6.

Rahane has looked good but has not been converting good starts into big scores.

The World Cup victor has been called into action four times this campaign and nowhere have his struggles been more evident than in his scratchy innings of 14 against the Delhi Daredevils. Chris Gayle received the man of the match award in that game for his splendid century.

Rajasthan Royals have had a somewhat lengthy break since their victory over MI, and will be upbeat about their chances against SRH even though recent form would point to Kane Williamson’s team as the clear favourites.

Wriddhiman Saha was Rajpoot’s next victim. Tye, who had just in the previous ball taken the catch to dismiss Saha, dropped it this time.

While the batting remains a worry for Punjab who are now third on the table, one of the bright spots of the defeat to the Sunrisers Hyderabad was surely the bowling of Ankit Rajpoot. The fielding was excellent, but we need more runs from the batsmen. He has hit three fours and a six.

Afghan all-rounder Nabi then joined Pathan for the final two deliveries but couldn’t trouble the scorers much as Rajpoot had the last laugh to end the innings at 132. It’s a part of cricket, the team support was awesome, they just told me to go there and enjoy myself.

Just like every other game, Punjab openers Rahul (32) and Gayle (23) started well with the bat but once they fall, there was no one to consolidate the innings. But the introduction of Rashid Khan turned the match on its head. Shakib A Hasan (28), who joined hands with Pandey to resurrect the innings with a 52-run stand, was picked out at third man only to find that Barinder Sran had overstepped the line. The complexion of the match changed dramatically following these two wickets.

Williamson, who lost the toss at home and was sent in to bat, went for a rare duck when he spliced seamer Ankit Rajpoot to mid-wicket. Sandeep pointed to other breakthroughs at crucial junctures in the chase that also led to a cumulative effect – leg-spinner Rashid Khan’s dismissal of attacking opener K. L. Rahul and Basil Thampi’s removal of the unsafe Chris Gayle. On Thursday too, the pair put on 55 runs for the opening wicket. Of course he had help from Rahul Dravid and in the bowling from Harbahajan Singh and also Sachin Tendulkar.