Sunrisers Hyderabad 132 for 6 (Pandey 54, Shakib 28, Rajpoot 5-14) beat Kings XI Punjab 119 (Rahul 32, Rashid 3-19, Shakib 2-18) by 13 runs
Scorecard and ball-by-ball details
No Billy Stanlake and Bhuvneshwar Kumar, no problem, again. Two nights after defending 118 – the second-lowest total in the IPL – Sunrisers Hyderabad’s attack put up another clinic and defended 132 to snap Kings XI Punjab’s four-match winning streak. That they could pull off another coup seemed improbable when Ankit Rajpoot‘s 5 for 14 – the best figures in IPL 2018 and the sixth best overall – pinned down Sunrisers to 132 for 6. It seemed improbable when KL Rahul and Chris Gayle, the most prolific opening pair this season, raised their fourth successive fifty-plus stand in the chase.
Enter Rashid Khan, the No.1 T20 bowler right now, and the experienced Shakib Al Hasan. They ran rings around Kings XI’s line-up and threatened both edges. Sandeep Sharma did his bit with the knuckle balls. And just like that, there was a slip breathing down the batsman’s neck. Just like that, Kings XI’s chase unravelled: from 55 for 1 they imploded to 101 for 9. Mujeeb Ur Rahman then hacked and reverse-swept his way to 10 off five balls – his first runs in T20 cricket – and reduced the equation to 15 off the last over. The first ball from Basil Thampi was a sharp inswinging yorker, which thudded into the pads of Mujeeb, who sneaked in a leg bye. Thampi then nailed the base of Rajpoot’s middle stump to cap Sunrisers’ comeback and move them to second on the points table.
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