Vikrant Shekhawat : Apr 12, 2021, 10:34 AM
IPL 2021 | There are only teams in the history of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that have won 100 or more matches. After Mumbai Indians and Chennai Superkings (CSK), the team of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) has joined this special club. In their opening match of the 14th season of IPL on Sunday, KKR defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 10 wickets and started the tournament brilliantly. After this win, the team's co-owner Shahrukh Khan made a special tweet. King Khan's tweet mentioned eight players, but the surprising thing was that Captain Eoin Morgan was not mentioned among these eight players.Harbhajan Singh, playing the first match for KKR, got the opportunity to bowl in just one over. He was also mentioned in Shahrukh's tweet. Shahrukh wrote in a tweet congratulating the KKR team, 'It was good to record 100th win in IPL. Well done Boys ... KKR, Nitish Rana, Dinesh Karthik, Famous Krishna, Rahul, Andre Russell, Harbhajan Singh (Nice to see him bowling a little bit too.), Shakib Al Hasan and Pat Cummins, let's see everyone playing. It was nice.'Talking about the match, KKR scored 187 for six, batting first in this match played at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chennai. Apart from Nitish, Rahul Tripathi batted brilliantly and scored 53 runs off 29 balls and besides Dinesh Karthik scored 22 not out off 9 balls. In reply Sunrisers Hyderabad team could score 177 runs for five wickets in 20 overs. Manish Pandey hit a six off the last ball, but could not win the team. Manish Pandey returned not out after scoring 61 off 44 balls. KKR reached the second position in the points table with this win. Delhi Capitals currently tops the point table.