{"id":581371,"date":"2026-04-02T20:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581371\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T20:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T20:18:09","slug":"sunrisers-hyderabad-defeat-kolkata-knight-riders-travis-head-blistering-innings-scorecard-match-report-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/581371\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunrisers Hyderabad defeat Kolkata Knight Riders, Travis Head blistering innings, scorecard, match report, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Explosive knocks by openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma led Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first win of the IPL season with a 65-run thrashing of Kolkata Knight Riders on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Australia\u2019s Head hit 46 off 21 balls and along with Abhishek, who clobbered a 21-ball 48, lay the foundations for Hyderabad\u2019s 226-8 at Kolkata\u2019s Eden Gardens.<\/p>\n

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Hyderabad then bowled out three-time winners Kolkata for 161 in 16 overs to register their first points after losing their opener to Royal Challengers Bengaluru.<\/p>\n

Head, who received a bumper contract from Cricket Australia earlier this week<\/a>, and Abhishek put on 82 runs for the first wicket as the two tore into the opposition attack and hit 10 fours and seven sixes between them.<\/p>\n

Travis Head plays a shot during the Indian Premier League cricket match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Sunrisers Hyderabad.Source: AP<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s Heinrich Klaasen top-scored with 52 after Kolkata lost three quick wickets including skipper Ishan Kishan, for 14, and Abhishek in one over from Blessing Muzarabani, who finished with 4-41.<\/p>\n

Klaasen and Nitish Kumar Reddy, who made 39, put on 82 for the fifth wicket to help Hyderabad finish on a high.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was happy with everyone putting the effort,\u201d said Kishan, who is leading the team in place of Pat Cummins, who is recovering from a back injury.<\/p>\n

\u201cHead and Abhishek made our game easy. It was a complete team effort.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Both teams came into the match after defeats in their opening outings but 2016 winners Hyderabad executed their plans to perfection.<\/p>\n

Kolkata\u2019s New Zealand import Finn Allen struck three fours and two sixes off David Payne in the first over of the chase to get them off to a blistering start.<\/p>\n

But after a seven-ball 28, Allen departed in the second over and despite wicketkeeper-batter Angkrish Raghuvanshi\u2019s 52, the Kolkata chase fizzled out.<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought SRH bowlers executed the slower balls (well) and the angles they used was really good,\u201d said Kolkata skipper Ajinkya Rahane.<\/p>\n

Left-arm quick Jaydev Unadkat took three wickets, including two in two balls, to bowl out Kolkata with four overs left unused as Hyderabad bounced back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Explosive knocks by openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma led Sunrisers Hyderabad to their first win of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564],"tags":[6074,31778,1724,64,63,689,155027,284811,284810,740,189843,284807,195833,284808,189825,1209,13849,227000,284809,40425,31774,11471,3453,1736,12550,677,226627,1948,33195,1183,18780,12540,85,91929,44867],"class_list":{"0":"post-581371","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cricket","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-ajinkya-rahane","10":"tag-asia","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-australia-and-new-zealand","14":"tag-banga","15":"tag-blistering-knock","16":"tag-complete-team-effort","17":"tag-cricket","18":"tag-david-payne","19":"tag-explosive-knocks","20":"tag-finn-allen","21":"tag-hero-lights","22":"tag-import-finn","23":"tag-india","24":"tag-indian-premier-league","25":"tag-ishan-kishan","26":"tag-kickstart-tournament","27":"tag-kolkata","28":"tag-kolkata-knight-riders","29":"tag-match-report","30":"tag-mitch-marsh","31":"tag-new-zealand","32":"tag-nitish-kumar-reddy","33":"tag-oceania","34":"tag-opposition-attack","35":"tag-pat-cummins","36":"tag-season-opener","37":"tag-south-africa","38":"tag-southern-africa","39":"tag-southern-asia","40":"tag-sports","41":"tag-sunrisers-hyderabad","42":"tag-travis-head"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}