Kolkata Knight Riders’s all-round bowling armoury was too hot for Sunrisers Hyderabad to handle, but in-form Rahul Tripathi (55, 35 balls, 7x4, 1x6) ensured KKR had a challenging target (160) in Tuesday’s Qualifier 1.

Mitchell Starc (4-0-34-3) triggered the Sunrisers collapse with his second ball in the first over when he bowled Travis Head for his second successive duck. Vaibhav Arora accounted for Abhishek Sharma in the next over. That was like a body blow to SRH aspirations for a quickfire start to their innings like they have been doing in the league phase.