What, at one stage, appeared could be a straight-forward contest within the Indian Premier League on Tuesday turned out to have a nail-biting end. The Sunrisers Hyderabad, put into bat first in opposition to the Punjab Kings, struggled to get to 66/4 in 10 overs.
At that time it appeared just like the Kings, enjoying at house on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh Stadium in Mullanpur, had been nicely on prime and will clinch their third win of the season. However Hyderabad bounced again and managed to place up a aggressive complete of 182 for 9 of their 20 overs, and managed to carry onto a two-run win with the Kings falling simply brief on 180/6.
This was the primary win away from house for the Pat Cummins-led Sunrisers, and it got here in thrilling vogue with the match nonetheless open until the penultimate supply of the sport.
Hyderabad began their batting innings slowly, however managed to up the scoring within the second half of the innings, courtesy participant of the match Nitish Kumar Reddy first-ever T20 half-century.
Equally, the Kings had a gradual begin within the run-chase however cameos from Sam Curran (29 off 22) and Sikandar Raza (28-22) acquired them again into the match, earlier than Shashank Singh’s 46 off 25 and Ashutosh Sharma’s 33 off 15 practically acquired them over the road.
An exhilarating contest ends with the Sunrisers Hyderabad successful by two runs.
A number of large hitting in direction of the tip of the Punjab Kings’ innings, however they fell simply wanting the 183-run goal.
Remaining rating:
SRH: 182/9 (20 overs)
PBKS: 180/6 (20 overs)📷 Jio… pic.twitter.com/pHixlZ771w
— The Discipline (@thefield_in) April 9, 2024
Turning level of the match
The Sunrisers struggled to get to 66/4 after their first 10 overs, and the wickets continued to fall. They misplaced their highly effective openers Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma early, and Aiden Markram was dismissed for naught. The harmful and in-form Heinrich Klaasen was additionally out cheaply – simply 9 runs from him on the evening.
However they discovered an unlikely hero in 20-year-old Nitish Kumar Reddy, who was enjoying in solely his second IPL match. He began to play intelligent and highly effective cricketing photographs to up the scoring. He was joined on the crease by Abdul Samad for the sixth wicket.
Collectively, they stitched collectively a quickfire 50-run partnership that acquired Hyderabad again into the match.
Reddy scored his first-ever T20 half-century, scoring an essential 64 off 37, with 4 fours and 5 sixes. Samad in the meantime scored 25 off 12 with 5 boundaries.
The Discipline’s participant of the match
There was a stand-out performer from both workforce right now. Nitish Reddy did very nicely to choose up his first ever T20 half-century. However regardless of being on the shedding workforce on the evening, Arshdeep Singh’s contribution can’t be missed.
The left-arm pacer from the Kings began the match having taken 4 wickets earlier this season, and doubled that depend on Tuesday with spectacular figures of 4/29.
In his second over, he dismissed the harmful Travis Head for 21. Two balls later, a supply that pitched on good line and size moved a bit away from the batter and Aiden Markram edged behind to wicket-keeper Jitesh Sharma.
In his third over, the seventeenth of the innings, he holed out Abdul Samad at deep backward level at a time when the batter had began to look harmful along with his 5 fours. Two balls later, aided by some luck, a full toss noticed Reddy attempt to hit large down the bottom, however he didn’t get an excellent connection. It gave Kagiso Rabada a easy catch out at long-off.
‘It acquired fairly shut’
The win retains the Hyderabad workforce in fifth place within the league desk with six factors from 5 matches. This was their third win of the season and first away from house. However they did it the arduous manner, ultimately approaching prime in a match that nearly didn’t go their manner.
“They bowled very well in the beginning, we did nicely to get to 180. Ultimately, [we did] fairly nicely to defend, nevertheless it acquired fairly shut.
“They bowled exceptionally nicely with the brand new ball, however you’ve acquired to aggressive. In the event you get 150-160, you’re most likely going to lose 9 instances out of 10 video games. I assumed [getting to 182] was fairly good. We knew the brand new ball goes to be a key time, so we’re fairly pleased we acquired to 180.”
— Sunrisers Hyderabad Pat Cummins after the match
