Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) clinched a humdinger by two runs versus Punjab Kings (PBKS) within the Indian Premier League (IPL) on the Maharaja Yadavindra Singh worldwide cricket stadium right here on Tuesday.
Chasing 183, Kings’ Shashank Singh (46 n.o., 25b, 6×4, 1×6) and Ashutosh Sharma (33, 15b, 3×4, 2×6) combinedly performed cool imperious pictures within the dying overs once more, as they did in Kings’ profitable 200-run chase versus Gujarat Titans, however may solely trigger a scare and produce their group inside sniffing distance of victory.
With 29 wanted off the final over, Jadev Unadkat conceded 26 runs. Ashutosh hit a six to deep midwicket boundary – it was palmed over by the fielder – off the primary ball, and Unadkat bowled back-to-back wides.
He hit a six over lengthy off then, this time too the fielder palming the ball over the boundary. He picked up a two thereafter, for Kings to attain 13 off three balls. A double, one run off a large supply, and a single later, Shashank managed to clobber a six over lengthy off for Kings to fall wanting the goal by simply three runs.
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The duo steadily stored at it on the dying, taking 17 runs, 11 runs, and 10 runs off the seventeenth, 18th, and nineteenth overs. Shashank struck three fours within the seventeenth over off Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Earlier, Nitish Kumar Reddy’s maiden IPL fifty (64, 37b, 4×4, 5×6) helped Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) publish 182 for 9.
Sunrisers had its worst batting and the Kings its finest bowling Powerplay of the season, as Sunrisers bought to 40 for 3.
Arshdeep Singh picked up two wickets in his second over. Opener Travis Head’s mishit was pouched by Shikhar Dhawan, who needed to flip again and run from mid-off tracing the ball.
A ball later, Aiden Markram nicked a back-of-length supply, that nipped away a teeny bit, by to the keeper. Sunrisers then slumped to 66 for 4 in 10 overs.
Nitish remarkably plundered 22 runs off a Harpreet Brar over with two fours and two sixes, the primary of which introduced up his fifty.
Nitish and Abdul Samad (25, 12b, 5×4) added 50 runs off 20 balls for the sixth-wicket stand. Arshdeep returned to have them each caught within the deep in the identical over.