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Hyderabad: Royal Challengers Bangalore beat Sunrisers Hyderabad by six wickets through Duckworth Lewis strategy in an IPL cricket match, here.

Batting first and foremost, SRH scored 135 for three in 11 overs against Royal Challengers Bangalore in a downpour hit diversion.

RCB required 81 from six overs in a further shortened diversion which they accomplished with a ball to extra. Virat Kohli scored 44 off 19 balls while Chris Gayle hit 35 off just 10 balls.

For SRH, Moises Henriques scored 57 off 22 balls while David Warner hit 52 off 32 balls. David Wiese took 2/19 in 2 overs.

Brief Scores: SRH 135/3 (Moises Henriques 57, David Warner 52 not out, David Wise 2/20).

RCB 83/4 in 5.5 overs (81 from 6 overs) (Virat Kohli 44 no, Chris Gayle 35, Moises Henriques 2/2). RCB won by 6 wkts.

Prior, Henriques’ severe ambush empowered SunRisers Hyderabad to achieve a summoning 135 for three in 11 overs subsequent to being put into bat.

When, SRH innings finished, sky again opened up as the groundsmen secured the playing surface.

Henriques crushed his way to 57 off just 22 balls with help of five limits and four sixes including 103 keeps running in just 7.1 overs in the process for the second wicket with captain David Warner staying unbeaten on 52 off just 32 balls.

Henriques 20-ball half-century was the second quickest in the competition.

Warner, the present holder of ‘Orange Cap’ played the second fiddle yet sscored his 50 off 30 balls. In all the SRH captain hit five fours and a six.

RCB’s handling was surely worse than average as Henriques carried on with an enchanted “life” as Mandeep Singh and Sarfaraz Khan dropping least demanding of chances on scores of 26 and 46.

With Powerplay lessened to only three overs, captain Warner chose to tee off with a tennis shot like limit back past Harshal Patel for a limit in the second over of the innings.

Shikhar Dhawan (10) was not all that fortunate as he initially dispatched David Wiese for a pulled limit yet was gone attempting to rehash the shot and neglecting to clear the wide mid-on defender.

Dhawan’s rejection didn’t dissuade Warner to hit Wiese down the ground for a limit and after that invited Yuzvendra Chahal with a breaking limit through additional spread area.

Chahal’s nightmarish first over proceeded as Moises Henriques hit him for a six and four off progressive conveyances as home group came to 50 off 5 overs.

Henriques was a long way from being done was he rebuffed Ashoke Dinda for his wickedness with another arrangement of limit and six.

On 26, Henriques got a respite when Mandeep Singh at long-off made a complete hash off a straightforward discover off Patel’s playing yielding a limit simultaneously. As though to add affront to the damage, Henriques guided the following ball for a limit past Dinesh Karthik to move into 30’s.

Henriques was not completed as he then dispatched into Patel to move into his 40’s however passed up a major opportunity for the quickest half-century. At 46, he offered a simple catch to the brawny Sarfaraz Khan at point, who dropped a sitter.

The 100 came in the 8th over and there was no thinking back for SRH as Warner likewise got into the demonstration.