Sunrisers Hyderabad produced a medical efficiency to register a convincing eight-wicket victory over Punjab Kings and open their account within the ongoing Indian Premier League right here on Sunday.
With SRH chasing 144 after spinner Mayank Markande’s (4/15) exploits with ball, Rahul Tripathi sizzled with an unbeaten 48-ball 74 to assist his facet full the duty in 17.1 overs.
Skipper Aiden Markram remained not out on 37 off 21 balls, and their efforts ensured that Shikhar Dhawan’s 66-ball 99 not out, which lifted Punjab Kings to 143 for 9, went in useless.
Markande did the star flip with figures of 4 for 15 to depart Punjab Kings reeling at 88 for 9 within the fifteenth over. Dhawan hit 12 fours and 5 sixes.
When their flip to bat got here, SRH had been gradual to start out with and reached 34 for one on the finish of the six powerplay overs.
Having being hit for six by Tripathi, leg-spinner Rahul Chahar got here again to seize the large wicket of Mayank Agarwal for a 20-ball 21, within the ninth over.
Tripathi then struck two successive fours off Chahar to assist SRH cross 50, earlier than hitting left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar for 3 boundaries on the trot to maintain his group within the contest.
On a pitch the place virtually all of the batters struggled, apart from Shikhar Dhawan, Tripathi managed to shine and introduced up his half-century in 35 balls with a six off Mohit Rathee.
That was adopted by the duo of Tripathi and skipper Aiden Markram citing the fifty partnership firstly of the 14th over, with SRH requiring 49 runs in 42 balls.
Tripathi and Markram then virtually sealed the problem of their group’s favour by putting Rathee for 21 runs, bringing the equation right down to 26 runs within the final 5 overs.
Earlier, even as Punjab Kings misplaced wickets at common intervals, Dhawan confirmed his teammates the right way to do it along with his unimaginable knock.
Asked to bat first, Punjab Kings endured a disastrous begin as they misplaced Prabhsimran Singh within the very first ball of the match, trapped in entrance of the wicket by veteran India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
The ball hit him above the knee roll however Prabhsimran determined to stroll again with out asking for a evaluate, leaving Punjab at none for one.
Skipper Shikhar Dhawan performed Bhuvneshwar in the direction of the third man area for the innings first boundary.
However, Dhawan once more watched from the non-striker’s finish as Matthew Short (1) was dismissed lbw by South African left-arm pacer Marco Jansen on the second supply of the match’s second over on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.
The ball landed on size and swung in earlier than hitting Short’s pads. Unlike Prabhsimran, Short consulted his skipper earlier than deciding to come back again into the dugout, leaving Punjab Kings in a spot of trouble at 10 for 2 within the second over.
Next ball, and one other swinging supply struck wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma (4) on the pads, and a Jansen’s loud shout for an lbw was upheld by the umpire. DRS was promptly taken and the ball-tracking know-how confirmed it was going properly down the leg-side, resulting in the choice being overturned and giving some reduction to PBKS.
Dhawan discovered two fours off his Indian group colleague Bhuvneshwar, earlier than Jansen returned to ship again Jitesh Sharma, who did not clear SRH skipper Aiden Markram at mid-off.
Sam Curran struck a six and a 4 off successive Jansen deliveries however, after having made 22 off 15 balls, the English all-rounder was achieved in by leg-spinner Markande, who completed with nice figures after the SRH’s seamers good show firstly.
But Dhawan had different concepts as he smashed the SRH bowlers to take his group to a good complete. Helping Dhawan alongside the best way was Bhuvneshwar, who spilled three probabilities by the batter, together with two off his personal bowling.
Scoreboard:
PBKS innings: Prabhsimran Singh lbw Bhuvneshwar Kumar 0 Shikhar Dhawan Not Out 99 Matt Short lbw Marco Jansen 1 Jitesh Sharma c Aiden Markram b Marco Jansen 4 Sam Curran c Bhuvneshwar Kumar b Mayank Markande 22 Sikandar Raza c Mayank Agarwal b Umran Malik 5 Shahrukh Khan lbw Mayank Markande 4 Harpreet Brar b Umran Malik 1 Rahul Chahar lbw Mayank Markande 0 Nathan Ellis b Mayank Markande 0 Mohit Rathee Not Out 1
Extras: 0b 1lb 0nb 5w 6
Total: 143-9
Fall of Wickets: 1-0 Singh, 2-10 Short, 3-22 Sharma, 4-63 Curran, 5-69 Butt, 6-74 Khan, 7-77 Brar, 8-78 Chahar, 9-88 Ellis
SRH bowling: Bhuvneshwar Kumar: 4 0 33 1 8.25 3w Marco Jansen 3 1 16 2 5.33 1w T Natarajan 4 0 40 0 10.00 Washington Sundar 1 0 6 0 6.00 Mayank Markande 4 0 15 4 3.75 Umran Malik 4 0 32 2 8.00 1w
SRH innings: Harry Brook b Arshdeep Singh 13 Mayank Agarwal c Sam Curran b Rahul Chahar 21 Rahul Tripathi Not Out 74 Aiden Markram Not Out 37
Extras: 0b 0lb 0nb 0w 0
Total: 145-2
Fall of Wickets: 1-27 Brook, 2-45 Agarwal
PBKS bowling: Sam Curran 3 0 14 0 4.67 Arshdeep Singh 3 0 20 1 6.67 Harpreet Brar 3.1 0 26 0 8.21 Nathan Ellis 3 0 28 0 9.33 Rahul Chahar 3 0 28 1 9.33 Mohit Rathee 2 0 29 0 14.50.
