Sunrisers Hyderabad 174 for 7 (Saha 35, Rashid 34*, Kuldeep 2-29) beat Kolkata Knight Riders 160 for 9 (Lynn 48, Rashid 3-19, Brathwaite 2-15) by 14 runs
Thirty-four runs off 10 balls when his team was struggling to post a competitive total. Three wickets, including of the highest scorer and the biggest hitter in the opposition. One run-out of a batsman proving to be a great tactical move.
Two catches. Rashid Khan single-handedly ended Sunrisers Hyderabad's four-match losing streak to beat Kolkata Knight Riders in the virtual semi-final of the IPL, reports ESPNcrincinfo.
Sunrisers were 134 for 6 in 17.5 overs when Rashid came out to bat. He produced an innings to rattle the young Knight Riders bowlers much like their captain Dinesh Karthik had recently done to the Bangladesh bowlers in the Nidahas Trophy final.
Then Rashid came on to bowl with Knight Riders cruising at 67 for 1 in six overs, but took out Chris Lynn, Robin Uthappa, and crucially, Andre Russell in the last over that he bowled.
There was a run-out in between to send Nitish Rana, whose promotion had upset Sunrisers' plans.
Because they don't have David Warner, because their middle order has been out of form, Sunrisers Hyderabad have been conservative with the bat.
Against a side whose batting looks like the future of T20, they got off to a cautious 45 for 0 Powerplay score, the lowest in Kolkata this season. In the eighth over, Kuldeep Yadav took out Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson, two men who had accounted for nearly half their runs in the season so far.
Dhawan missed the length on a sweep, and Williamson added himself to the highlight reel of great batsmen who have fallen to wrong'uns this season: AB de Villiers, Virat Kohli and MS Dhoni.
At 60 for 2 in 7.5 overs, Sunrisers needed someone in the reimagined middle order to play out of his skin but that didn't happen. The Knight Riders spinners choked the life out of them, and the low run rate kept bringing wickets.
When Carlos Brathwaite ran himself out in the 18th over to become the sixth wicket to fall, Sunrisers were looking at nothing short of another bowling miracle if they had to make it to Mumbai.