Sunrisers Hyderabad produced a medical efficiency to register a convincing eight-wicket victory over Punjab Kings and open their account within the ongoing Indian Premier League in Hyderabad on Sunday. With SRH chasing 144 after spinner Mayank Markande‘s (4/15) exploits with ball, Rahul Tripathi sizzled with an unbeaten 48-ball 74 to assist his aspect full the duty in 17.1 overs. Skipper Aiden Markram remained not out on 37 off 21 balls, and their efforts ensured that Shikhar Dhawan‘s 66-ball 99 not out, which lifted Punjab Kings to 143 for 9, went in useless.

Markande did the star flip with figures of 4 for 15 to depart Punjab Kings reeling at 88 for 9 within the fifteenth over. Dhawan hit 12 fours and 5 sixes.

When their flip to bat got here, SRH had been sluggish to start out with and reached 34 for one on the finish of the six powerplay overs.

Having being hit for six by Tripathi, leg-spinner Rahul Chahar got here again to seize the massive wicket of Mayank Agarwal for a 20-ball 21, within the ninth over.

Tripathi then struck two successive fours off Chahar to assist SRH cross 50, earlier than hitting left-arm spinner Harpreet Brar for 3 boundaries on the trot to maintain his staff within the contest.

On a pitch the place virtually all of the batters struggled, excluding Shikhar Dhawan, Tripathi managed to shine and introduced up his half-century in 35 balls with a six off Mohit Rathee.

That was adopted by the duo of Tripathi and skipper Aiden Markram mentioning the fifty partnership initially of the 14th over, with SRH requiring 49 runs in 42 balls.

Tripathi and Markram then virtually sealed the problem of their staff’s favour by hanging Rathee for 21 runs, bringing the equation right down to 26 runs within the final 5 overs.

Earlier, whilst Punjab Kings misplaced wickets at common intervals, Dhawan confirmed his teammates how you can do it together with his unbelievable knock.

Asked to bat first, Punjab Kings endured a disastrous begin as they misplaced Prabhsimran Singh within the very first ball of the match, trapped in entrance of the wicket by veteran India seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

The ball hit him above the knee roll however Prabhsimran determined to stroll again with out asking for a evaluation, leaving Punjab at none for one.

Skipper Shikhar Dhawan performed Bhuvneshwar in the direction of the third man area for the innings first boundary.

However, Dhawan once more watched from the non-striker’s finish as Matthew Short (1) was dismissed lbw by South African left-arm pacer Marco Jansen on the second supply of the match’s second over on the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

The ball landed on a superb size and swung in earlier than hitting Short’s pads. Unlike Prabhsimran, Short consulted his skipper earlier than deciding to return again into the dugout, leaving Punjab Kings in a spot of trouble at 10 for 2 within the second over.

Next ball, and one other swinging supply struck wicketkeeper-batter Jitesh Sharma (4) on the pads, and a Jansen’s loud shout for an lbw was upheld by the umpire. DRS was promptly taken and the ball-tracking expertise confirmed it was going effectively down the leg-side, resulting in the choice being overturned and giving some aid to PBKS.

Dhawan discovered two fours off his Indian staff colleague Bhuvneshwar, earlier than Jansen returned to ship again Jitesh Sharma, who didn’t clear SRH skipper Aiden Markram at mid-off.

Sam Curran struck a six and a 4 off successive Jansen deliveries however, after having made 22 off 15 balls, the English all-rounder was performed in by leg-spinner Markande, who completed with wonderful figures after the SRH’s seamers sensible show initially.

But Dhawan had different concepts as he smashed the SRH bowlers to take his staff to a good complete. Helping Dhawan alongside the way in which was Bhuvneshwar, who spilled three possibilities by the batter, together with two off his personal bowling.

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