IPL 2022 / Kane Williamson's half-century helps Hyderabad notch up second win of the season

Zoom News : Apr 11, 2022, 10:24 PM
In the 21st match of IPL 2022, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Gujarat Titans by 8 wickets in a one-sided match. SRH had a target of 163 runs, which the team achieved at the loss of 2 wickets. Captain Kane Williamson (57) was the top scorer.


This is the second consecutive win for SRH in the tournament. The team has played 4 matches so far, in which 2 have won and 2 have been lost. At the same time, this was the first defeat after three consecutive victories of Gujarat Titans.


Earlier GT scored 162 runs for 7 wickets in 20 overs. Captain Hardik Pandya played the highest innings of 50 not out. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan got 2-2 wickets in the account for SRH.


Ken's bat gone

Kane Williamson, who scored only 50 runs in the first 3 innings, played a brilliant innings in this match. The SRH captain completed his 18th fifty in IPL in 42 balls. However, he lost his wicket only after making a fifty. Kane was dismissed for 57 off Hardik's delivery. His catch was caught by Tewatia at long on.


Tripathi injured

Rahul Tripathi hit a six over cover on the first ball of the 14th over against Rahul Tewatia on his knee. After this shot, he lay down on the ground. Actually, Tripathi got cramp after hitting the shot. Rahul was seen moaning in pain and left the field.


Ken and Abhishek's partnership

Chasing the target, SRH picked up the pace after a slow start and Kane Williamson and Abhishek Sharma added 64 for the first wicket. This partnership was broken by Rashid Khan by dismissing Abhishek. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 42 runs in 32 balls. Sharma hit 6 fours in his innings.


4 fours in an over by Abhishek

In the last over of the power play, Abhishek Sharma hit four fours to Lockie Ferguson. On the first ball, Abhishek got 4 runs with a square drive, scored a four in this direction on the second ball and completed the hat-trick of fours by playing a contract shot at deep backward point on the third ball. After this, he hit a boundary on the 5th ball at short third man. The team's score was 42/0 till the power play.


very slow start

Chasing the target, SRH started very slowly. Kane Williamson and Abhishek Sharma came to the opening and both hit the first four after 24 balls. For the first 4 overs, the team's score was only 10 runs. On the first ball of the 5th over, Captain Kane hit the first boundary off Shami.


Hardik's 5th fifty

Hardik Pandya completed his 5th half-century of his IPL career in 42 balls while playing the captaincy innings. He played an unbeaten innings of 50 runs. This was Pandya's first half-century as captain.


  • In the last 5 overs, Gujarat scored 44 runs for the loss of 3 wickets.
  • This was Hardik (50)*'s first half-century against SRH.
  • Rashid Khan was dismissed for zero for the tenth time in the IPL.
  • SRH bowlers bowled 20 wide balls in the match.

Natarajan got 2 wickets

In the match, T Natarajan spent 34 runs in 4 overs at an economy of 8.50 and managed to take 2 wickets. Famous for the name of yorker specialist, Natarajan took the wickets of Sai Sudarshan (11) and Rashid Khan (0). He has so far taken 8 wickets in 4 matches of the current tournament.


Abhinav and Hardik Jodi

Hardik Pandya and Abhinav Manohar added 50 runs in 31 balls for the fifth wicket. This partnership was broken by Bhuvneshwar Kumar by dismissing Abhinav (35). This was GT's only 50+ partnership in this match.


Abhinav was out after getting 2 life donations

Abhinav Manohar, playing his first season in IPL, scored 35 runs in 21 balls and was dismissed by Bhuvi. His catch was caught by Rahul Tripathi. Before being dismissed, Abhinav had two catches dropped in the same over of Bhuvneshwar. In the mega auction, Gujarat had bought Manohar for Rs 2.60 crore.


Hardik and Miller's partnership

Gujarat had lost its first 3 wickets at 64. After this, Hardik Pandya and David Miller added 40 runs for the fourth wicket and brought the team back into the match. The partnership ended by Marco Yensson dismissing Miller. He returned to the pavilion after scoring 12 runs in 15 balls.


Hardik hit a century of sixes

With one six in the match, Gujarat captain Hardik Pandya completed his 100 sixes in the IPL. Pandya became the 26th player to make this record. He achieved this feat in his 96th match.


Players who hit 100 sixes in shortest balls in IPL:

  • Andre Russell: 657 balls
  • Chris Gayle: 943 balls
  • Hardik Pandya: 1046 balls

wade failed again

Matthew Wade was dismissed LBW for 19 runs. His wicket came in the account of Umran Malik. The Australian wicketkeeper's bat has been completely silent in this tournament so far. He has scored 56 runs in 4 innings.


GT's Power Play

The game of the first 6 overs of the match was mixed for both the teams. While Sunrisers Hyderabad took 2 wickets, Gujarat Titans also scored 51 runs. Gujarat hit a total of 7 fours in the power play.


Gill didn't bat

Batting after losing the toss, GT got off to a bad start. The team lost the wicket of Shubman Gill in the third over. Gill, who scored two consecutive fifties in the last two matches, scored 7 runs in 9 balls and was dismissed by Bhuvneshwar Kumar. His brilliant catch was caught by Rahul Tripathi at cover.


Bhuvi was expensive in the first over

Bhuvneshwar Kumar spent 17 runs in the very first over of the match. The interesting thing is that out of these 17 runs, 12 were extra. Matthew Wade hit a four on the first ball of the over. The second ball was WIDE, but it also stopped outside the boundary. 1 run scored off the third ball. Bhuvi again bowls a wide and remains single on the fourth ball. Bhuvi again bowled the WIDE ball and then stopped this ball by going to the boundary.


Playing XI of both the teams

SRH: Abhishek Sharma, Kane Williamson (c), Rahul Tripathi, Aiden Markram, Nicholas Pooran (wk), Shashank Singh, Washington Sundar, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Marco Yensen, Umran Malik, T Natarajan.


GT: Matthew Wade (wk), Shubman Gill, Sai Sudarshan, Hardik Pandya (c), David Miller, Rahul Tewatia, Abhinav Manohar, Rashid Khan, Lockie Ferguson, Mohammed Shami, Darshan Nalkande.

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