MATCH REPORT: M48 - SRH VS KXIP

MATCH REPORT: M48 - SRH VS KXIP

Match Replay

Sunrisers Hyderabad strengthened their fourth position in the VIVO IPL 2019 standings after defeating Kings XI Punjab by 45 runs at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium on Monday night. This season, Sunrisers posted 212-6 in their last league match at home and then stopped the viewers at 167-8. In the victory of SRH, David Warner (81) and Rashid Khan (3-21) were the most impressive performances.

Sunrise, who were asked to bat first, all guns blazing. Warner and Riddhiman Saha's new opening pair added 77 runs in the first six overs - this is the highest score in the Powerplay this season. After Saha's dismissal at the start of the seventh over, Warner and Manish Pandey carried forward the pace; He added 82 runs for the second wicket in 9.1 overs.

Sunrisers slumped slightly in the last five overs; Pandey and Warner lost some runs in the 16th over. But Ken Williamson and Mohammad Nabi scored 26 runs to give SRH some momentum in the 18th over, thrown by Mujib ur Rehman.

Captain Ravichandran Ashwin (2-30) was the bowler for Kings XI Punjab; The remaining four wickets were shared by Mohammed Shami (2-36), Murugan Ashwin (1-32) and Arshdeep Singh (1-42). Spinner was a destructive day with Mujib ur Rahman's ball; He was playing five fours and four sixes, and he gave 66 runs in his four overs - any spinner won in an IPL inning.

Looking at the heaviness of Chase in front of Kings XI Punjab, his opener Chris Gayle and KL Rahul looked on. After Gayle's dismissal at the beginning of the third over, on the shoulders of Rahul fell on the shoulders, who did not disappoint. Rahul started slowly again, but as the shift went forward; He worked hard, built his innings, and played some delightful strokes in his 56-ball 79.

At the end of the Powerplay, KXIP was running 44 for 1, and 79 runs in four overs in the middle nine overs. He scored 167 off 8 balls while batting his 20 overs.

For Sunrisers Hyderabad, Rashid Khan and Khalil Ahmed took 3/3, while Sandeep Sharma took the remaining two wickets.

Standing batting display

David Warner signed style from VIVO IPL 2019; Australian top fifth time for Sunrisers this season. His 81 - which was 56 balls and included 7 hits and 2 sixes - he played his innings of 692 in the season. On the evening of Monday, the left-hand knock played a very unpredictable Warrior inning; When he normally takes the bowlers and bounces the ball, on Monday evening, he scored his runs behind the wickets. When he faced bad lines thrown by the bowlers of Kings XI Punjab, Warner made his scoring opportunity by playing switch-hit on one or two occasions. Another feature of Warner's innings, which is not clear from a glance on the scorecard, is how hard he works between wickets; Warner's 81's had 25 singles and 8 twins.

Notable Support Act - Batting

Two other important contributions to Sunrisers innings were; Riddhiman Saha made 28 runs in his first innings as an opener this season, while Manish Pandey batted at number three with 36 runs.

Warner was making runs on one end, Saha ensured that the bowlers should not move away from some cool bowlers by putting them on the strike. Saha hit three fours and a six in his 13-ball knock; Stand-up stroke was on the drive and his Bengal teammate Mohammed Sham was the bridge-six Saha was dismissed immediately after the powerplay when he made short delivery to wicketkeeper from Murugan Ashwin.

Pandey, who made a half-century in his last two innings, was busy on the crease and handed the strike to the set Warner. He hit three fours - and hit six on the ground straight away, and contributed 36 in Warner's 82-run partnership.

Standout bowling performance

Rashid Khan Sunrise will be head of Hyderabad; He got three mid-order wickets for a time when the match was still in the balance. Mayank Agarwal and David Miller caught at deep mid-wicket, while Ravichandran Ashwin took a long-on. Leg spinners, who completed 50 IPL wickets with the dismissal of Agarwal, 12 dot ball thrown and finished with figures of 3 for 21.

R Ashwin added two more wickets in his tally of this season; He picked up Pandey and Warner's wickets when Sunrisers had a launchpad in the last five overs. Ashwin first dismissed Pandey; He had a batsman, who had taken shape to play lap shots through the fine leg, to hit the short fine-leg fielder on just two balls. After three balls, he picked Warner's big wicket, which had to reach a wider distribution, did not get enough strength on the shot and reached the fielder at the point. Ashwin took 2 for 30 in his four overs.

State of the match

David Warner was the eighth fifty in the IPL matches against the 81st Kings XI Punjab.

With Mayank Agarwal's wicket, Rashid Khan completed 50 wickets in IPL; After Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Sunrisers will be the second bowler to take 50 wickets for Hyderabad.

There were only 25 dot balls in the innings of Sunrisers; In contrast, KXIP's innings had 48 dot deliveries.

Short score:

Sunrisers Hyderabad: 212-6 (David Warner 81, Manish Pandey 36, R Ashwin 2-30) defeated

Kings XI Punjab: 167-8 (KL Rahul 79, Khalil Ahmed 3-40, Rashid Khan 3-21) by 45 runs

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David Warner scored 81 runs from his 56 balls.