Sunrisers Hyderabad registered a knocking eight wicket win over Gujarat Lions at the Green Park stadium on Saturday.
Sunrisers Hyderabad registered a thumping eight wicket win over seventh ranked Gujarat Lions at the Green Park stadium in Kanpur on Saturday. Gujarat Lions started their innings in blistering fashion with their openers Dwayne Smith and Ishan Kishan by smashing 111 runs in 11 overs. Smith’s knock included seven boundaries and two sixes while Kishan scored magnificent 61 off 40 balls including four sixes.
Lions lost the plot after 12 overs as they started to lose quick wickets after Smith and Kishan’s departure leaving Lions at 120 for 2. Raina (2), Karthik (0) and Finch (2) went back to pavilion within three runs leaving Gujarat at 123 for 5. Jadeja remained not out on hte score of 20 but couldn’t take Lions to a big total as wickets kept on falling from the other end.
After that GL set a target of 155 to chase, Sunrisers made an aggressive start with Dhawan getting into act with early four boundaries. Gujarat make a comeback by striking two quick wickets by sending Dhawan (18) and Henriques (4) back in the dugout in the praveen kumar over.
Even loosing early wickets sunrisers got in pressure but, then came the youngster Vijay Shankar who settled in a pressure situation, handling his innings with maturity and allowed David Warner from the other end to play freely. Warner finished with 69 not out with nine boundaries and Vijay Shankar remained unbeaten on 63 off 44 balls by getting FBB tylish player of the award.
Sunrisers reached for the second consecutive time in playoffs and are currently placed second in the points table.
Here’s how the twitterati reacted to SRH’s win:
https://twitter.com/VVSLaxman281/status/863393328393486342
https://twitter.com/cricketaakash/status/863391194642075648
Good win tonight @SunRisers . Well done Md Siraj, @davidwarner31 and Vijay Shankar. #Qualifiers #OrangeArmy
— Shikhar Dhawan (@SDhawan25) May 13, 2017
The Sunrisers Hyderabad have successfully ended this match on a winning note and are now placed second in the table. This win implies that the team has fixed their placed in the play-offs with team-spirit and great performance by the bowlers.
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