Warner, Bairstow hand KKR fifth loss on the bounce

It was the 18th over of the first innings when cameras captured a few smiles in the Sunrisers Hyderabad dugout. They might have been about an inside joke but you couldn't blame them for being ecstatic at what was happening in the middle. Rashid Khan was bowling the over, and facing him was Piyush Chawla who would frustratingly go on to play five dot balls in the over. That after Andre Russell was allowed to get off strike on the over's first ball.

That in a nutshell was what went wrong for the Kolkata Knight Riders. For a side that's relied so heavily on one player, the diffidence to send Russell as low as at No 7 defies logic. And perhaps explains why the team's