In the 49th match of IPL 2021, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) won the match by 6 wickets with Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) due to great performance in bowling.

Earlier SRH won the toss and chose to bat first and made a low score of 115/8 (20) due to great bowled by Varun Chakravarthy 2/26 (4), Tim Southee 2/26 (4), and Shivam Mavi 2/29 (4). Kane Williamson 26 (21), and Abdul Samad 25 (18) good batted from the SRH side.
During chasing, KKR loses 4 wickets and won the match easily by 6 wickets with SRH due to good batted by Shubham Gill 57 (51), Nitish Rana 25 (33), and Dinesh Karthik 18* (12). Jason Holder 2/32 (4), Siddharth Kaul 1/17 (3.4), and Rashid Khan 1/23 (4) good bowled from the SRH side. After winning this match, KKR placed at the 4th position in the IPL 2021 points table with 12 points.

Due to his great performance in batting, Shubham Gill (KKR) 57 (51), was declared as the Player of the Match.