HYDERABAD: Abhishek Sharma continued his marauding type with a quickfire 28-ball 66 (5×4, 6×6) as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Punjab Kings by 4 wickets to brighten their prospects of a top-two end within the standings.
The victory on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Cricket stadium took SRH to 17 factors and the second spot on Sunday. And with the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals washed out as a result of rain later within the day, SRH secured the No.2 place within the closing factors desk on superior web run charge over the Royals.
Chasing Punjab Kings’ 214/5, thanks largely to Prabhsimran Singh’s 71 (45b, 7×4, 4×6), Abhishek added 72 runs for the second wicket with Rahul Tripathi (33 off 18b) and 57 runs with Nitish Kumar (37 off 25b) for the third wicket because the hosts completed at 215/6 with 5 deliveries to spare.That after Sunrisers misplaced their in-form opener Travis Head to the very first ball, as he was cleaned up by Arshdeep Singh.
However Tripathi and Abhishek plundered 72 runs in simply 30 balls. Although Tripathi departed within the sixth over, caught by Arshdeep, the hosts had by then powered to 84/2 within the powerplay. Abhishek continued his aggressive strategy regardless of shedding two companions. He hit Harshal Patel for consecutive boundaries to achieve his half-century in 21 deliveries after which lofted Harpreet Brar for consecutive sixes to take Hyderabad to 129/2 on the midway mark. Nonetheless, he perished to the primary ball of Shashank Singh’s subsequent over.
Nitish and Heinrich Klaasen then stored the hosts on track. Each hit sixes off Brar and Rahul Chahar to carry down the required run charge to only over six by the 13th over.
With 39 required from 37 deliveries, Nitish departed after including 47 for the fourth wicket. With eight runs wanted for victory, Klaasen (42 off 26b) too fell, cleaned up by Brar. However Abdul Samad hit Atharva straight down the bottom for a boundary to take his facet to victory.
The victory on the Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Cricket stadium took SRH to 17 factors and the second spot on Sunday. And with the match between Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals washed out as a result of rain later within the day, SRH secured the No.2 place within the closing factors desk on superior web run charge over the Royals.
Chasing Punjab Kings’ 214/5, thanks largely to Prabhsimran Singh’s 71 (45b, 7×4, 4×6), Abhishek added 72 runs for the second wicket with Rahul Tripathi (33 off 18b) and 57 runs with Nitish Kumar (37 off 25b) for the third wicket because the hosts completed at 215/6 with 5 deliveries to spare.That after Sunrisers misplaced their in-form opener Travis Head to the very first ball, as he was cleaned up by Arshdeep Singh.
However Tripathi and Abhishek plundered 72 runs in simply 30 balls. Although Tripathi departed within the sixth over, caught by Arshdeep, the hosts had by then powered to 84/2 within the powerplay. Abhishek continued his aggressive strategy regardless of shedding two companions. He hit Harshal Patel for consecutive boundaries to achieve his half-century in 21 deliveries after which lofted Harpreet Brar for consecutive sixes to take Hyderabad to 129/2 on the midway mark. Nonetheless, he perished to the primary ball of Shashank Singh’s subsequent over.
Nitish and Heinrich Klaasen then stored the hosts on track. Each hit sixes off Brar and Rahul Chahar to carry down the required run charge to only over six by the 13th over.
With 39 required from 37 deliveries, Nitish departed after including 47 for the fourth wicket. With eight runs wanted for victory, Klaasen (42 off 26b) too fell, cleaned up by Brar. However Abdul Samad hit Atharva straight down the bottom for a boundary to take his facet to victory.
Earlier, openers Prabhsimran and Atharva Taide (46 off 27b) added 97 runs for the opening wicket in 9 overs, 61 of them within the first six, after Punjab elected to bat.
Natarajan removed Taide within the 10th over, however Prabhsimran reached his half-century in 34 balls.
Rilee Rossouw and Prabhsimran hit Nitish for 20 runs within the 12th over earlier than the latter departed after including 54 runs for the second wicket. Rossouw then smashed Nitish for a six and a 4 earlier than a mixup with Shashank Singh resulted within the latter’s run out.
Cummins then eliminated Rossouw (49) and Natarajan removed Ashutosh Sharma within the subsequent.
