Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets

Dubai: Kolkata Knight Riders beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by 7 wickets in the eighth match of the Indian Premier League at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Saturday.

Chasing a score of 142, Kolkata wrapped up the total with 12 balls to spare. For Kolkata Shubman Gill was the top scores with 70 runs from 62 balls.

Earlier Sunrisers Hyderabad scraped their way to 142/4 with Manish Pandey being the top scorer for SRH with 51 off 38 balls. Pandey added 62 runs for the third wicket with Wriddhiman Saha to help Hyderabad to the modest total.

Wriddhiman Saha, who was included in the squad in place of the injured Vijay Shankar, scored 30 off 31 balls.

Sunrisers Hyderabad had won the toss and elected to bat.

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