Travis Head's Explosive Fifty Powers SRH to Dominant Start Against KKR

Travis Head's Explosive Fifty Powers SRH to Dominant Start Against KKR

6 Overs 6.6 Score84 - 1 Varun Chakaravarthy to Travis Head, SIX! Clean as a whistle! Travis Head gets to his FIFTY in style. Floated up, full and on leg. Head clears the front leg and swings through the line of the ball. Tonks it way over long on for a biggie. A quality knock so far from Travis, and he will be keen to make it big.

4 Overs 6.3 Score76 - 1 Varun Chakaravarthy to Travis Head, MISFIELD AND FOUR! That should have been stopped! Full, on middle, Travis Head gets down on one knee and slogs it wide of deep square leg. Anukul Roy moves to his right near the fence but fails to judge the bounce as the ball parries through his hands and goes to the fence for a boundary.

STRATEGIC BREAK! It has been another dominant outing with the bat to start with for SRH as the top three have combined well to post 71 for 1 after the first 6 overs. Travis Head has been the main run-getter in this contest as he continues to look dangerous with an unbeaten 42 off just 19 balls. Abhishek Sharma had an off day as he was dismissed for not much. Another positive for SRH is that Ishan Kishan has also looked in good touch up to this point. Kolkata Knight Riders will be needing not just one but a few wickets in a cluster to stem the flow of runs, and they will be counting on Varun in particular to make that happen. Varun Chakaravarthy has been brought into the attack.

4 Overs 4.5 Score58 - 1 Cameron Green to Travis Head, FOUR AGAIN! A hat-trick of boundaries from Head! Not exactly where he intended, but he will take it. Hard length, on middle and leg, Travis Head tries to pull it but gets it off the inside half of the bat. The ball races through backward square leg for yet another boundary.

0 Overs 3.5 Score44 - 1 Kartik Tyagi to Ishan Kishan, Oh, that could have gone anywhere! Seam-up ball, on a short of a good length, on leg. Kishan closes the bat face to work it away on the leg side with a closed bat face. The ball seems to have stopped in the surface. It pops up off a leading edge and goes well over the bowler's head before dropping just behind the umpire.

W Overs 3.4 Score44 - 1 Kartik Tyagi to Abhishek Sharma, OUT! CAUGHT! A much-needed breakthrough for KKR. At 144.4 kph, Tyagi goes short and keeps it on middle and leg. Abhishek hangs on the back foot and swivels a bit for the pull. He is cramped for space and ends up spooning it off the upper half of the blade in front of square. Cameron Green moves to his left from mid-wicket and takes a reverse cup catch around his head.

1wd Overs 3.3 Score43 - 0 Kartik Tyagi to Travis Head, Wide! Pace off and into the surface, over off. Head backs away to go up and over the in-field on the off side but misses. Wide given for height. Tyagi is not happy with the wide call but KKR do not challenge the call. To be fair, it did not look to be going over the head in real-time.

4 Overs 3.1 Score41 - 0 Kartik Tyagi to Abhishek Sharma, FOUR! Streaky! Pushed across the left-hander, on a back of a length. Abhishek Sharma swings for the hills, looking to go down the ground. The ball flies off the outer half over the man at short third and goes away into the fence.

4 Overs 1.4 Score18 - 0 Vaibhav Arora to Travis Head, FOUR! Not off the middle but Head will take it. Width offered by Arora, on a back of a good length. Head leans back to flay it away. He does not quite get hold of it but he hits it well from deep point to his left for four more.

4 Overs 1.2 Score14 - 0 Vaibhav Arora to Travis Head, FOUR! Off to the fence in a flash! Not that bad a ball, if anything, slightly too short, just outside the off stump. Head rises on his toes and forces it away through backward point, beating the man in the deep to his right.