Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) confronted Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) within the nineteenth match of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 on the Eden Gardens on Friday (April 14). SRH emerged victorious within the high-scoring encounter by 23 runs.

Requested to bat first, Hyderabad bought off to a flying begin courtesy of sensible strokeplay from their top-order batters. Harry Brook slammed a blazing 55-ball ton for his crew within the contest and smashed KKR bowlers throughout the park. In the meantime, SRH skipper Aiden Markram too performed his half by contributing 50 runs off simply 26 balls and powering his facet to a mammoth complete of 228/4 of their allotted 20 overs.

Notably, Brook hammered 15 boundaries in his innings, together with twelve fours and three sixes. Amongst these three maximums by him, two got here on again to again deliveries of Umesh Yadav.

On the fifth ball of the third over, Umesh delivered an outside-the-off-stump low full toss to Brook, which the right-handed batter deposited into the stands over further cowl. Seeing the response, the 35-year-old pacer backed off a bit and went for a size ball on the subsequent supply, however Brook but once more despatched it over the boundary line by making room for himself and executing a superb lower.

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Coming again to the match, KKR didn’t begin properly within the run chase and misplaced their opener Rahmanullah Gurbaz for a duck. Nevertheless, Nitish Rana and Rinku Singh performed some attacking photographs within the center overs and stored the hopes alive for the Kolkata-based crew. Rana top-scored for his facet with 75 runs off 41 balls, however his efforts went in useless as KKR fell wanting the goal by 23 runs and managed to attain 205/7 of their 20 overs.

However, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Jansen, and Mayank Markande picked up two wickets every for SRH. Brook was declared the ‘Participant of the Match’ for his spectacular century.