India, May 3 -- These are heady days for T20 and the ceiling of IPL scores keeps getting reset almost daily. Evidently, it's playing havoc with the concept of par scores. That's sad for the game overall because not too long ago 165 was considered more than decent.

Now, Sunrisers Hyderabad won't be faulted for deeming it at least 60-75 runs less than what they would have settled for. No surprises then that they crashed to a seven-wicket defeat to Kolkata Knight Riders, who have now strung together three consecutive wins to quietly revive their campaign.

Sunrisers' batters can't escape the blame here, having gone from 105/1 in 8.5 overs to 148/7 in 16 overs in a game where two points could have propelled them to the top of the points tabl...