IPL 2020 / Sunrisers biggest win against Kings XI Punjab

Zoom News : Oct 08, 2020, 11:32 PM
In the 22nd match of the 13th season of IPL, Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Kings XI Punjab by 69 runs. This is Hyderabad's biggest win against Punjab. Earlier last year, Hyderabad beat Punjab by 45 runs. In the match played in Dubai, Hyderabad won the toss and gave a target of 202 runs while batting. In response, Punjab's team could only manage 132 runs for 10 wickets in 16.5 overs. With the win, Hyderabad has moved up to fourth place in the points table. Johnny Bairstow scored a stunning 97. Rashid Khan took 3 wickets.

Puran made the fastest fifty of the season

Nicholas Puran of Punjab hit the fastest fifty of the season on 17 balls. Puran smashed 77 runs off 37 balls. He hit 5 fours and 7 sixes in his innings. He was dismissed by Rashid Khan. Earlier, Sanju Samson of Rajasthan Royals hit a 19-ball fifty against Chennai. At the same time, Kieron Pollard of Mumbai Indians scored a half-century on 20 balls against Royal Challengers Bangalore.


Punjab lost 2 wickets in power-play

Punjab did not have a good start. Mayank Agarwal, looking in rhythm, was run out after scoring 9 runs in the second over of the innings. After this, Prabhasimran Singh, who came out to bat, could not do anything special and scored 11 runs and was dismissed by Khalil Ahmed.


Lokesh Rahul and Nicholas Pooran led the team to 45 runs in 6 overs. Lokesh Rahul got caught by Abhishek Sharma at the hands of Kane Williamson. Rahul could score only 11 runs. At the same time, Glenn Maxwell was run out after scoring 7 runs.


Hyderabad scored 201 for 6 wickets

Earlier, batting after winning the toss, Hyderabad scored 201 for 6 wickets in 20 overs. Johnny Bairstow missed his century and was out for 97 runs. Apart from this, David Warner (52) also made his 46th fifty in the IPL. Warner is the highest fiftieth batsman in the league. Punjab's Ravi Bishnoi took 3, Arshdeep Singh took 2 and Mohammad Shami took 1 wicket.


Warner-Bairstow holds 160-run opening partnership

For Hyderabad, opener David Warner and Johnny Bairstow shared 160 runs for the first wicket. Bairstow scored 97 runs off 55 balls. During this, he hit 7 fours and 6 sixes. At the same time, David Warner scored 52 runs off 40 balls. Both batsmen were dismissed by Ravi Bishnoi in the same over.


No batsman played other than openers

Apart from the Hyderabad openers, no batsman could do anything special. Abdul Samad (8), Manish Pandey (1) and Priyam Garg (0) could not even reach the double figures. Abhishek Sharma scored 12 runs. He was dismissed by Mohammed Shami. Kane Williamson was 20 not out.


1000+ run partnership between Warner-Bairstow

Captain David Warner and Johnny Bairstow gave Hyderabad a brilliant start. Both added 58 runs in the power-play. This is Hyderabad's biggest score in the power-play of the season. With this, more than one thousand runs have been shared between Warner-Bairstow in 16 innings in total. Both have scored 5 times a century and 4 times a FIFTY run partnership.


Hyderabad players descend into black arm band

Hyderabad players took to the ground wearing a black arm band in the match against Punjab. Sunrisers players did this in honor of Afghanistan cricketer Najib Tarkai. 29-year-old Tarkai died on October 6 while undergoing treatment in a hospital in Kabul after being injured in a road accident.


One change in Hyderabad team and 3 changes in Punjab

Hyderabad made a change in the team. Khalil Ahmed replaced Siddharth Kaul in the squad. At the same time, 3 changes were made in the Punjab team. Prabhasimran Singh, Arshadip Singh and Mujib-ur-Rehman were included in the playing eleven in place of Harpreet Brar, Chris Jordan and Sarfaraz Khan.


Both teams

Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner (captain), Johnny Bairstow (wicketkeeper), Manish Pandey, Kane Williamson, Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Rashid Khan, Sandeep Sharma, Khalil Ahmed and T Natarajan.


Kings XI Punjab: Lokesh Rahul (captain), Mayank Agarwal, Mandeep Singh, Nicholas Pooran, Prabhasimran Singh (wicketkeeper), Glenn Maxwell, Ravi Bishnoi, Arshadip Singh, Mujib-ur-Rehman, Mohammed Shami and Sheldon Cottrell.

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