2480dThe Report by Deivarayan Muthu

Williamson and Dhawan overwhelm Daredevils

Kane Williamson, playing his first match of the season, made an imperious 89 off 51 balls and propelled Sunrisers Hyderabad to their fourth win in four home matches

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

KS Williamson
KS Williamson
89(51) 6x4 - 5x6
Control %86%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 22 runs
  • 1x4 - 3x6
0 8 11 10 8 7 13 32
S Dhawan
S Dhawan
70(50) 7x4 - 1x6
Control %72%
  • Productive Shot
  • slog shot
  • 17 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
10 6 10 11 17 1 4 11

Best performances - Bowlers

CH Morris
CH Morris
O4
M0
R26
W4
Eco6.5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
1W1W
Mohammed Siraj
Mohammed Siraj
O4
M0
R39
W2
Eco9.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH

Match Details

Toss

Sunrisers Hyderabad , elected to bat first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.30, Interval 21.30-21.50, Second Session 21.50- 23.20

Match days

19 April 2017 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Sunrisers Hyderabad 2, Delhi Daredevils 0

Commentator: Akshay Gopalakrishnan

END OF OVER:
20 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | DC: 176/5 (16 runs required, RR: 8.80)

  • Shreyas Iyer50 (31b)
  • Chris Morris0 (0b)
  • Siddarth Kaul4-0-32-1
  • Bhuvneshwar Kumar4-0-29-0

Sunrisers' unbeaten run at home continues with their fourth successive win in Hyderabad this IPL. And they have done it without their most important players performing as well today. Warner was dismissed for 4, Bhuvneshwar went wicketless, as did Rashid, and yet they won by 15 runs, which are pleasing signs if you are a Sunrisers fan. That is all we have from this game. We hope you enjoyed our coverage. Be back tomorrow. Thanks for joining us.

Arsh: "Delhi always seem to plan for the future and prepare. They're giving Karun Nair and Matthews a go so they can strike form right now and help them in the later stages. However, they don't realise that this strategy back fires every season. They don't get to a stage where these players can fire and get them the trophy. DD must realise that they're not a practice team in this tournament and must take decisions to make sure that they're running every game possible"

"Nice to get a game. The guys have been doing a fantastic job, so fortunate to get a game", says Kane Williamson, Man of the Match. "It was a very good surface, it was important to get a good score batting first. Once again, just those partnerships throughout were important and I think the icing on the cake were the couple of boundaries that took us past 180. With the likes of Yuvi, you try and up the tempo with these guys coming in. Once the platform was set, it was about getting the run rate up and fortunately we were able to do it. Our fielding has improved, which is something we have focused on. I just got a little niggle, probably was not going to do the team too much of a service being out with the niggle."

"It was an outstanding performance from the guys", says Sunrisers captain David Warner. "Kane, first game for him this year,the way he and Shikhar played laid an outstanding platform for the guys. We galvanise well together, we know what to expect. Fantastic performance from the guys with the bat and then following it up with the ball as well. Delhi have an outstanding bowling attack with pace upfront. It was about tossing the ball to the youngster playing the first game or go to Bhuvi, our experienced paceman. We threw the ball to the youngster and he came out on top. To come out and play the way he played, and Bhuvi was world-class again. I hurt myself on the rib cage. Credit to the fast bowlers"

Daredevils' strategy is sure to ask a few questions. They gave Rishabh Pant the promotion he deserved, but Mathews ahead of Chris Morris is going to leave a lot of people wondering about the reason behind that. Sunrisers pick up yet another win at home, but don't forget Shreyas Iyer's contribution. He kept the Daredevils alive till the end, but it did not prove enough.

"Another great game of cricket, unfortunate to not finish on the winning side," says Zaheer Khan, Daredevils captain. "180 would have been ideal to chase, but the last over I bowled is going to haunt me for a bit. Bhuvi was just fantastic, the lengths he is bowling and the rhythm he is in, he is helping Sunrisers defend. Even with 190, we felt we had a good chance. These things (Karun run out) happen in the heat of the situation. But overall, the morale is good. We have been losing by small margins."

Bhuvneshwar has gone wicketless in each of the last 3 matches against Daredevils.

Abhishek: "This chase just reminds me of the ipl final where MI sent in Duminy ahead of Pollard and lost the final."

Varun: "What a blunder by DD yet again. Why would you send Matthews ahead of your best player of this IPL - Morris. So many bad balls not put by Matthews"

19.6
1
Kaul to Iyer, 1 run, backs away to this short of a length ball and just flat-bats it away through extra cover. It is cut off at the deep and that is the game
19.5
W
Kaul to Mathews, OUT, this is great bowling. Intelligently varies his pace. Drops it short but it is a slower ball. Really does not come on at the pace Mathews would have liked and he flat-bats it. Can't get any sort of timing on it and finds long-on

AD Mathews c sub (CJ Jordan) b Kaul 31 (31m 23b 2x4 1x6) SR: 134.78

19.4
0
Kaul to Mathews, no run, great stop from Ojha. Another yorker, wide of the crease and angled in, Mathews was backing away outside leg stump, misses the ball which goes between bat and legs and Ojha dives to his left to stop that. That could have easily been four byes. Kaul gets some reverse there
19.3
0
Kaul to Mathews, no run, there it is, he nails it, finally. Yorker, on middle and leg, all Mathews can do is dig it out back in the bowler's direction. Can he nail more of these? Couple more of these and it's game over
19.2
6
Kaul to Mathews, SIX, full toss again but this one's not as low as some of the other ones. Comes on a knee height for Mathews who clobbers it over long-on. Needs to get the yorker right here. This one could still swing either way

Shan: "Kumars strength is that he's settled in to bowling that yorker length. Batsmen should be trying to advance him or bat deep in the crease to put him off his length. Right now they are just moving side ways at the crease. playing to Kumars strength."

19.1
1
Kaul to Iyer, 1 run, full toss, on middle and leg, Shreyas whips it hard but straight to backward square leg. Missed opportunity at a boundary

Kaul to bowl the final over. 24 needed off it.

Wicketless

0

Rashid Khan went without a wicket for the first time this IPL

Morris takes them all

4

Wickets taken by Daredevils, all by Chris Morris. He became the second bowler, after RP Singh in 2011, to take all four wickets to fall in an IPL innings.

Knocking 'em clean

5

Number of sixes for Kane Williamson - his joint-highest in a T20 innings. He hit five of them for Northern Districts against Cape Cobras in the 2014 Champions League T20.

The one without Warner

10

Number of century stands for Sunrisers Hyderabad in the IPL. David Warner was involved in each of them before today.

Second-wicket stronghold

3

Number of fifty-plus partnerships for Sunrisers' second wicket - the most among all teams this IPL.

Tons of experience

100

When Kane Williamson arrived at the fall of David Warner, it marked the 100th time he had come out to bat in a T20 innings

Rare failure

4

Runs scored by David Warner, his first single-digit score in 17 innings in the IPL.

Win toss, bat first

3

Number of sides to have elected to bat. Sunrisers became the third team to do so. Daredevils and Royal Challengers have done it twice each and won once each.