On Saturday, against Kings XI Punjab, Morris slammed 16 off 8 balls alongside Anderson, who hit all but eight runs in his unbeaten 39 in the last 10 balls.
Gautam Gambhir (capt), Robin Uthappa (wk), Manish Pandey, Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Colin de Grandhomme, Chris Woakes, Sunil Narine, Kuldeep Yadav, Umesh Yadav, Trent Boult. On Saturday, the KKR defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad by 17 runs while the Daredevils defeated Kings XI Punjab by whooping 51 runs.
Asked if KKR who posted 172/6 after being asked to bat first by visiting captain David Warner, were a few runs short, Uthappa said: "We did end up with a little less than we meant to".
Thereafter Yuvraj Singh scored 26 with some nice, meaty hits before he, too, perished in an attempt at upping the ante. From time to time, the likes of Manish Pandey and Robin Uthappa have emerged as the knights in shining armour to save the side.
Uthappa struck four sixes and five boundaries while Pandey cleverly rotated the strikes as Kolkata reached 100 in 12.4 overs. Pandey took over after Uthappa's exit, making 46 off 35 balls, but the Kolkata innings lost momentum when the batsman miscued his shot off Bhuvi and Warner held the skier, running in from long-off.
Leading from the front, orange cap holder (for scoring most number of runs) and skipper Gautam Gambhir has shown his prowess and that has been one of the reasons for KKR's success.
Both these teams have been quite impressive so far, with KKR winning three of their four matches in IPL 2017, while the Delhi Daredevils have won two in a row, after losing their first game of the season.
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Promoting Narine as-an-opener strategy did not work this time around as Bhuvneshwar brilliantly set him up before castling him with a yorker.
With Narine yorked by Bhuvneshwar Kumar early on and Gambhir cleaned up by Afghan leg-spinner Rashid Khan for 15, Team Kolkata could only manage 40/2 in the Power Play overs. They head into the game on the back of a win at home against the Sunriders Hyderabad.
Bhuvneshwar looked risky in his first spell of two overs (2-0-7-1) getting the ball to swing away from the right-hander.
Uthappa had a below-par domestic season, scoring 328 runs in seven matches at an average of 27.33 in the Ranji Trophy 2016-17, and then scored a single half-century in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Gambhir also looked to break free but the ball went straight to unsettle his middle-stump.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (squad): DA Warner, TD Agarwal, RK Bhui, Bipul Sharma, BCJ Cutting, S Dhawan, ER Dwivedi, MC Henriques, DJ Hooda, CJ Jordan, S Kaul, B Kumar, B Laughlin, A Mithun, Mohammad Nabi, Mohammed Siraj, Mustafizur Rahman, A Nehra, NV Ojha, Rashid Khan, V Shankar, BB Sran, PV Tambe, KS Williamson and Yuvraj Singh.
Henriques was the most expensive Sunrisers bowler, conceding 26 from his 2 overs.
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