Kolkata, April 15 (Cricketnmore) Robin Uthappa rescued Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) from their initial hiccups with a composed 68 that helped his side post 172\/6 in 20 overs against Sunrisers Hyderabad in an Indian Premier League (IPL) game at the Eden Gardens here on Saturday.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Put in to bat by visiting skipper David Warner, KKR lost opener Sunil Narine (6; 9b, 1x4) and skipper Gautam Gambhir (15; 16b, 2x4, 0x6) early to be tottering at 40\/2.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Coming in at No.3, Uthappa used all his experience to engineer a crafty 68 (39b 5x4 4x6) along with Manish Pandey who was guilty of a slow start -- scoring only 13 in his first 18 balls -- to finally score a 35-ball 46 (3x4, 2x6). The pair stitched together a 77-run third wicket partnership.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
For the visitors, Bhuvneshwar Kumar returned best figures of (3\/20) conceding at an economy rate of just five.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Narine failed to repeat his heroics of two days ago as a fiery Bhuvneshwar uprooted his off-stump with an in-swinging yorker to which the leg-spinner had no answer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In the previous over, Narine had slapped Ashish Nehra down the wicket.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Bhuvneshwar looked dangerous in his first spell of two overs (2-0-7-1) getting the ball to swing away from the right hander.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Uthappa almost fell pray in his first delivery, following a away moving delivery and all but edging behind to wicket-keeper Naman Ojha.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Just when it looked like Gambhir was about to continue from where he had left against Kings XI Punjab, Afghanistan leg-spinner Rashid Khan (1\/29) continued his purple patch with the KKR captain trying to cut a straight one that skidded off the surface and clattered into his stumps.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
After the Powerplay, KKR were in a spot of bother at 40\/2 with Pandey joining Uthappa in the middle.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Uthappa upped the ante after the break, hitting Moises Henriques and Vipul Sharma -- both being inducted in the first XI in place of Mustafizur Rahman and Vijay Shankar -- for two and a six respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
The clean-hitting right-hander from Karnataka brought up his half-century, sweeping Rashid to deep midwicket where Shikhar Dhawan misjudged a difficult catch attempt. Together with Pandey, the duo who play their domestic cricket together, tore apart Sunrisers.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Uthappa, in the process, became the third batsman after Gambhir and Yusuf Pathan to score 1500 runs for KKR.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Cutting (1\/41) finally got Uthappa out -- his legcutter forcing the 2007 T20 World Cup winning player to mistime his pull with Rashid running from deep midwicket to long on to take the catch.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Bhuvneshwar halted Pandey from scoring a fifty, getting the back of him as Pathan remained unbeaten at 21 off 15 with Suryakumar Yadav and Colin Grandhomme falling to Nehra and Bhuvneshwar respectively.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Brief scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 172\/6 (Robin Uthappa 68, Manish Pandey 46; Bhuvneshwar Kumar 3\/20) vs Kolkata Knight Riders.<\/p>\r\n", "image": "https:\/\/img.cricketnmore.com\/uploads\/2017\/04\/robin-uthappa7.jpg", "alt_img": "IPL 10: Robin Uthappa's 68 takes Kolkata to 172\/6 vs Hyderabad", "alt_title": "IPL 10: Robin Uthappa's 68 takes Kolkata to 172\/6 vs Hyderabad", "image1": "", "video": "", "seo_title": "IPL 10: Robin Uthappa's 68 takes Kolkata to 172\/6 vs Hyderabad", "seo_desc": "Kolkata, April 15 (Cricketnmore) Robin Uthappa rescued Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) from their initial hiccups with a composed 68 that helped his side post 172\/", "seo_keywords": "Robin Uthappa, KKR", "tag": "", "tagging": "", "status": "1", "img_rpt": "0", "google": "0", "standout": "0", "edapps": "0", "pulse": "0", "no_index": "0", "feed": "0", "fixture": "0", "slug": "ipl-10-robin-uthappa-s-68-takes-kolkata-to-172-6-vs-hyderabad", "user_id": "0", "read_count": "0", "ians_date": "0000-00-00", "ians_time": "00:00:00", "server_time": "0000-00-00 00:00:00", "trash": "0", "view_count": "1907", "page_break": "0", "instant_articles": "0", "auto_link": "0", "created": "2017-04-15 18:56:00", "updated": "2017-04-15 18:56:00", "img_from": "", "img_source": "", "schedule_publish": "0000-00-00 00:00:00", "news_keywords": null, "livescore_text": null, "livescore_link": null, "btn_text": null, "resend_feed": "0", "google_feed": "0", "read_more": "0", "posted_by": "1", "jio_date": "2017-04-15 18:56:00", "scheduled": "0", "news_now": "1", "breaking_news": "0", "google_date": "2017-04-15 18:56:00", "featured": "0", "pred_match_id": null, "article_content_type": null, "link": "https:\/\/www.cricketnmore.com\/cricket-news\/ipl-10-robin-uthappa-s-68-takes-kolkata-to-172-6-vs-hyderabad-25794" }