Lucknow: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) lost by 8 wickets against Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the first qualifier match played at Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad. With the victory in this match, Kolkata has made its place in the final, while Hyderabad will now be seen playing in the second qualifier. In this match, Hyderabad's batting proved to be a flop and their bowling also could not perform well. Seeing the condition of SRH in this match, former Indian legendary batsman Navjot Singh Sidhu has given a big statement about the team.

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Sidhu has called Hyderabad captain Pat Cummins a coward and has sharply criticized him. He says that Cummins should have included spinners in the team and you cannot win in the Indian Premier League without spinners. Let us tell you that while batting first in the first qualifier match, the team captained by Cummins was all out for 159 runs and KKR achieved this at the loss of 2 wickets in 13.4 overs. After Hyderabad's defeat in this match, Sidhu has given a big statement during a conversation on Star Sports.

He said, “He is not a bowler who bowls overs. You don't have spinners who can take wickets consistently in the middle overs. You don't have good spinners who can bowl 8 overs. Their biggest problem has been that they do not have good spinners. Your batting has scored 270 runs in all the matches they have won. When you have scored 160 or 170, that is how they have lost.”

Sidhu further said that “Hyderabad are cowards because they think that if they play spinners, more runs will be scored. You have only three bowlers, which include Bhuvneshwar Kumar, T Natarajan and captain Pat Cummins himself.”

Kolkata defeated Hyderabad by 8 wickets

If we talk about the match, then in this match Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bat first. After this the entire team was all out for 159 runs. For them, star batsman Rahul Tripathi played a half-century and scored 55 runs in 35 balls. Apart from him, no other player could score well. In this match for Kolkata, captain Shreyas Iyer faced 24 balls and played an unbeaten inning of 58 runs with the help of 5 fours and 4 sixes. Apart from him, Venkatesh Iyer also scored 51 not out on 28 balls. With this he has made his place in the finals also.

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