Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders, 25th Match - Live Cricket Score, Commentary

There's nothing better in life than some good solid in-your-face revenge. Rahul Tripathi has absolutely nailed it. Given the kind of international calendar India have in the next few months with multiple series eating into each others' FTP, the Blue is only a matter of time. It's time we head out for the night then, as I, Vineet Anantharaman, sign off on behalf of Abhinand Raghavendran, Kumar Abhisekh Das and our scorer, Mukesh Gowda. Until tomorrow, and two of them from either side of Churchgate railway station, ta ta!!

Rahul Tripathi | MoM: I enjoyed myself today. The time with KKR was special, and now it is special with SRH as well. Russell bangs it in short if you are new, and I was looking for that shot if the ball was there. Varun bowls well, I didn't expect him to pitch it up and that's why I went through with that lofted shot. It wasn't premeditated. It's been very special with KKR, and now with SRH too in the last few games. I have been struggling with my health over the last few days and the management did a very good job with me. There are days when things get tough, but I enjoy the hard work and the good days. Before going in to bat, I am a little fidgety, but I am happy that I got this innings today.

Kane Williamson | Winning captain: It was a step up again. It was important to take early wickets with the ball against KKR. A little bit of dew came in which was helpful for us. The death bowling was great too. Rahul Tripathi was amazing and so was Aiden Markram, although in different roles. Marco, with his bounce and pace, was a big part of our attack with Bhuvneshwar, who swings the ball. It is just about getting the fields right for Malik. He touches 150ks on every ball and has been nicked off for fours. But he has been patient. There are many little things we can work on, and the guys are working on them. We're seeing the improvement.

Aiden Markram: That feels good. It's nice to bat. When Tripathi gets going, you have time to settle in and he really set a nice platform. It was good to get the win for the side. Him (Pooran) and I, we laugh about it, we've struggled a bit in the past so it's nice to get it done. You get more used to it with time. By no means a finished product, certainly happy to have done it again tonight. Sometimes things just fall into place and I'm enjoying it here with the Sunrisers. It's been a great few weeks so far, hopefully we can keep this momentum going. It (instruction) is play the situation. When I play with a guy like Rahul, naturally he's very aggressive. The longer we spend as a partnership out there, he's going to do the majority of the scoring. It's the partnership that matters. From there, hopefully I can get in and then keep playing the situation through to the end. In the past, I've taken it to the last over and we actually lost the game. The sooner we could get it done, the quicker the nerves get off the system.

Shreyas Iyer | Losing captain: Feel drained. I thought it was a good total. Rahul Tripathi didnt allow us to settle down. Credit to the pace with which they played. Their bowlers also didnt know where it was going. We put on a great batting effort. Was a bad day with the ball.

23:10 Local Time, 17:40 GMT, 23:10 IST: Some game this. From a swingfest to a seamfest to a pacefest to a smashfest. Some game this. Hyderabad will be really pleased; it's not just about winning this one, but it's about winning three in a row now, and checking a lot of boxes. And the franchise really needs it after the kind of 2021 they had. They have their KKR-import to thank. Rahul Tripathi was in serious mood, hitting them big right from the start. And he just kept hitting. Markram gave him good company, playing the second-fiddle at first, before taking over finishing duties. But it's their first-innings bowling that set this up, where despite the Rana-Russell flourish towards the end of Kolkata's innings, 175 did look undercooked. Stick around, the presentations should be up soon ..

Cummins to Markram, SIX, bang, bang, and bang. It's done. It's dusted. Cummins goes short, and Markram sends it over deep square leg

Cummins to Markram, SIX .. into single-digits. This one's properly in the slot now, and Markram just clears out his front leg, swings, and heaves it over deep mid-wicket

Cummins to Markram, FOUR, fuller, in the slot, and Markram lofts it uppishly over an empty mid-wicket. Just NRR things. He's stepping it up here ..

Cummins to Pooran, 1 run, 136.8kph, tighter on middle, good length, tapped in front of mid-off for a quick one

Cummins to Markram, 1 run, length, on off, wristily punched down to long-on

Pat Cummins [3.0-0-22-1] is back into the attack

Narine to Markram, 1 run, to backs away and drives it to deep extra cover. Narine's been the calm in the storm: 4-0-23--0

Narine to Pooran, 1 run, the single nearly turns suicidal. Pooran nudges it straight to short mid-wicket and just takes off for the run, but Narine, despite running across quickly, doesn't execute a direct hit. Pooran wasn't even trying to get in

Narine to Markram, 1 run, flat, on middle, knocked wristily down to long-on. And Markram has a fifty -- his second in the IPL

Narine to Markram, no run, doesn't have a lot of room to work with despite backing away, and taps it straight to point

From round the wicket now.

Narine to Pooran, 1 run, on the back foot, for a quiet punch, straight down the ground. Sensible ..

Narine to Markram, 1 run, short, angling across, slapped to deep point

Sunil Narine [3.0-0-18-0] is back into the attack