Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) prevailed in a thriller towards Punjab Kings as the sport acquired too shut for his or her consolation ultimately however finally, the Orange Army sneaked house by simply two runs on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium in Mullanpur on Tuesday, April 9. Nitish Kumar Reddy was the star of the present for the Sunrisers along with his knock of 64 off simply 37 balls as he not solely rescued his facet’s innings once they have been decreased to 64/4 but in addition helped them get to a powerful rating of 182 runs, which finally proved to be sufficient.
As it turned out, although Jaydev Unadkat went for 26 runs off the final over together with three sixes, three catches have been dropped and it was the six that the left-arm pacer hit along with his bat on the final ball of SRH’s innings that finally proved to be the distinction. A catch was dropped by Harshal Patel off Sam Curran’s ball as he palmed it over the boundary. SRH’s rating went from 176 to 182 and the Kings completed with 180 as the top-order wants to pull its weight for the house facet.
However, it was a Nitish Kumar Reddy present by means of and thru for the Sunrisers Hyderabad, who was promoted to No 4 and did the job with the bat amid a floundering batting efficiency from the remainder of the batters. At 64/4 within the tenth over, the innings was going nowhere for the Sunrisers earlier than Nitish Reddy stitched a fast 20-ball 50 partnership with Abdul Samad to lead his facet’s comeback.
Reddy notched up his maiden IPL fifty and was on track to take his crew to a complete in extra of 190-plus however Kings made an honest comeback with three wickets in two overs earlier than a six every from Shahbaz Ahmed and Unadkat pushed SRH’s rating past 180.
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