New Zealand quick bowler Trent Boult was in top shape as he took three wickets for 19 hurries to help Sunrisers Hyderabad register a 20-run triumph against Kings XI Punjab in their IPL match at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium in Mohali on Monday.
Sunrisers needed to bowl well after their batsmen were confined to a humble 150-run add up to by the noteworthy Kings XI bowlers.
However, pursuing the focus of 151, the home group batsmen just figured out how to score 130/9 in their 20 overs with wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha (33-ball 42) was the main player to have assumed an impressive part.
The greatly required win helped Sunrisers climb to the fifth place in the IPL 8 standings with six focuses from seven recreations. Rulers XI stay at the base of the table with four focuses from the same number of diversions. Prior, chief David Warner top-scored with a 41-ball 58 as Sunrisers Hyderabad dealt with an unassuming 150 for six.
Ashish Reddy crushed 22 off eight balls towards the end with the assistance of two last-more than sixes, helping Sunrisers achieve the 150-imprint. Sent into bat, the Sunrisers Hyderabad were set for a poor begin with Shikhar Dhawan tumbling to pace lead Mitchell Johnson with only 10 pursues on the board Sandeep Sharma amazed a lady opening at the Punjab Cricket Association stadium.
Lords XI Punjab captain George Bailey picked to bowl as the pitch had a decent measure of grass on it, and his bowlers reacted by delivering a trained show.
KXIP, who dropped veteran Virender Sehwag after a run of poor scores in their first home session of the season, guaranteed that the Sunrisers batsmen didn’t get simple runs in this urgent experience. Glenn Maxwell, as well, passed up a great opportunity once more on discovering a spot in the playing XI. Youthful left-arm spinner Axar Patel was the best bowler for KXIP, returning great figures of 2/25, while Johnson grabbed two wickets for 39 runs.
Aside from Warner, Moises Henriques (30) and Naman Ojha (28) were alternate donors for the meeting side, which attempted to cut free. Warner discovered the wall 10 times and cleared it once amid his stay in the center.
Despite the fact that Warner included 46 runs for the second wicket with Hanum Vihari, yet they couldn’t inconvenience the home group that had the group behind them.
Low maintenance bowler Murali Vijay bowled a clean three-over spell, yielding only 16 runs, and that exacerbated the situation for Sunrisers. Anureet Singh, as well, was prudent as he doled out 27 runs in his full spell, incorporating five runs in the innings’ penultimate over.
