IPL 2017 Eliminator | Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Kolkata Knight Riders: Play disrupted due to rain

Two-time IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders are engaged in an encounter with title holders Sunrisers Hyderabad in the eliminator at M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru. The winner of Wednesday's match will face Mumbai Indians who suffered a 20-run defeat at the hands of Rising Pune Supergiant on Tuesday. 

For KKR, it would take a significant turnaround to reach the second qualifier after they lost four out of seven matches in the latter half of the season. 

Defending champions Sunrisers, on the other hand, won eight games while lost five in their 14 league games to end the league stage at third position with 17 points.

Live Scorecard: Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) vs Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR)

The team cemented their play-offs berth on the back of a superb eight-wicket win over Gujarat Lions in their last league match.

Here are the live updates of the SRH vs KKR match:

#11.55pm

The scores were updated till 9.42pm as the rain disrupted the commencement of Kolkata Knight Riders innings

Likely scenarios

# No reserve day for the eliminator and qualifiers. There's one for the final

# If KKR innings is reduced to 5 overs, it should start by 12.58am due to the rule of extra time of 120 minutes

# If the game fails to start by 12.58am, both teams will play a Super Over, which has to start latest by 1.26am

# If the Super Over is not possible, SRH (17 points) go through to the Qualifier as they finished above KKR (16 points) in the points table

#11.53pm

There is a continuous drizzle and covers have not been removed from the pitch. 

#9.42pm

SRH final score 128/7

#9.35pm

Coulter-Nile to Jordan, out Caught&Bowled 

#9.33pm

Coulter-Nile to Vijay Shankar, out Caught by Suryakumar Yadav

#9.30pm

Boult to Naman Ojha, SIX, to long on

#9.29pm

Boult to Vijay Shankar, FOUR, to long on

#9.23pm

100 comes up for Sunrisers in 15.5 overs. Vijay Shankar and Naman Ojha at the crease

#9.19pm

U Yadav to Yuvraj, out Caught by Chawla!!

#9.17pm

Chawla to Yuvraj, FOUR, to long off

#9.08pm

Chawla to Yuvraj, FOUR, to long off

#9.05pm

Chawla to Warner, out Bowled!!

#9.02pm

Coulter-Nile to Williamson, out Caught by Suryakumar Yadav!!

#9.57pm

Narine to Warner, SIX, to long on

#8.55pm

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 63/1 in 10.1 overs

#8.52pm

Coulter-Nile to Williamson, SIX, to deep square leg

#8.51pm

Coulter-Nile to Williamson, FOUR, to deep mid wicket

#8.37pm

Y Pathan to Williamson, FOUR, to deep extra cover 

#8.28pm

U Yadav to Dhawan, out Caught by Uthappa!!

#8.21pm

Both teams going in with just five bowlers and a bit here and there. Batting the likely differentiator today

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) May 17, 2017

U Yadav to Dhawan, FOUR

#8.15pm

Boult to Warner, FOUR, to long on

#8.12pm

Trentt Boult to attack KKR from the other end

#8.11pm

Four!!! David Warner begins. SRH get 7 runs from the first over

#8pm

The usual combination for SRH. David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan open the innings for defending champions. Umesh Yadav starts for KKR

#7.30pm

Kolkata Knight Riders win toss, opt to bowl vs Sunrisers Hyderabad

Squads

Kolkata Knight Riders (Playing XI): Sunil Narine, Chris Lynn, Gautam Gambhir(c), Robin Uthappa(w), Yusuf Pathan, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishank Jaggi, Piyush Chawla, Umesh Yadav, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Trent Boult

Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): David Warner(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Kane Williamson, Yuvraj Singh, Vijay Shankar, Naman Ojha(w), Chris Jordan, Bipul Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Siddarth Kaul