Hello and a warm welcome to yet another blog after a looooooooooong time as I return to finish what I started, what I promised, finishing the daily matches reviews of this incredible season at the IPL. I will write about the game between the Sunrisers Hyderabad and the Punjab Kings at Uppal. So let’s get started!
Jitesh Sharma won the toss and opted to field first with only Roussow being the overseas player. The PBKS openers surprised everybody with Taide and Prabhsimran playing some good shots and gave them a strong start before Roussow and Jitesh gave the finishing touches giving PBKS a 200+ total. They also did Head first ball but Abhishek Sharma and Tripathi absolutely didn’t care about his dismissal and played how the Sunrisers have been playing. The Kings were always behind the game as Nitish Reddy and Klassen applied the finishing touches when wickets started to tumble, giving the Sunrisers yet another victory at Uppal by 4 wickets.
In another dominant performance, The Kings had nothing to lose as they were already eliminated and they would be pleased with their batting performance with SRH bowling a little under-par. But throughout this tournament, their batters have won the game for them in most games. But this time it was a little different as Head fell in the first ball but credit to Tripathi for giving support to Abhishek to continue the way he has played this tournament and effectively the game was over after the powerplay as SRH stacked about 80 runs already in the powerplay and could play comfortably for the coming overs. This win ensured SRH came 2nd as the next game was washed out as RR fell back in the table and did play the eliminator against RCB. The next blog will be on the Qualifier 1 between SRH and KKR.