2576dThe Report by Kanishkaa Balachandran

Powerful Perera trumps T&T in tense chase

Sunrisers Hyderabad were subject to an examination of their batting depth and in their opening game in the tournament's main draw showed that they could look after themselves without much assistance from Shikhar Dhawan

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Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DM Bravo
DM Bravo
66(44) 5x4 - 4x6
Control %75%
  • Productive Shot
  • on side drive on front foot
  • 23 runs
  • 1x4 - 3x6
0 2 5 8 5 32 5 9
NLTC Perera
NLTC Perera
57(32) 4x4 - 4x6
Control %74%
  • Productive Shot
  • off side drive on front foot
  • 18 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
0 0 0 4 22 12 6 13

Best performances - Bowlers

SP Narine
SP Narine
O4
M1
R9
W4
Eco2.25
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
DJG Sammy
DJG Sammy
O4
M0
R21
W2
Eco5.25
RHB
OFFLEG
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF

Match Details

Toss

Sunrisers Hyderabad , elected to field first

Player Of The Match

Season

Hours of play (local time)

20.32 start, First Session 20.32-21.52, Interval 21.52-22.12, Second Session 22.12-23.32

Match days

24 September 2013 - night match (20-over match)

TV Umpires

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Sunrisers Hyderabad 4, Trinidad & Tobago 0

Scorer: S Balasubramanian | Commentator: Vishal Dikshit

That's T20 entertainment for you! T&T were well in the driver's seat after taking Sunrisers down to 95 for 4 but Thisara Perera spoiled the party with his knock. Four sixes, four fours and he stayed till the end, even after Sammy was dismissed. Sunil Narine did bring T&T back with excellent bowling, but it wasn't enough.

A great day of T20 cricket comes to an end, that's all we have for you today. There are two matches tomorrow too, so see you all in about 15 hours. This is Vishal Dikshit signing off, along with scorer S Balasubramanian. Goodbye!

Denesh Ramdin: We were about 10 runs less, Bravo got out at the wrong time and we couldn't score off Steyn's last three balls, that's what went in their favour. We need to work on that. We tried to get Perera out and we knew his was the important wicket and Sammy also played a cameo.

Darren Sammy: It was one of the best innings I've seen in a while. It's one of the wins we need to get us going in the tournament. We bowled as a team right from the IPL, if somebody doesn't bowl that well, Perera and I just bowl straight and do the job. We work as a team just like Perera did today.

Time for the presentation:

Shikhar Dhawan: It was a great game of cricket form both the sides, heartbeats were up. We didn't field that well and dropped a couple of catches too. We should have restricted them to 150. But it was amazing batting from Perera, the way he was hitting sixes - clean and great timing. He bowled very well too, very accurate and that's how we kept T&T to a decent score.

Thisara Perera: I think a lot of Sri Lankans must be watching this match back at home. I'm proud of my achievements as an allrounder. After my side strain, this is my normal speed I'm bowling at. Every time I have a chance, like this pressure situation, I like to handle the situation, that's it.

19.3
6
Stewart to KV Sharma, SIX, BOOM! If the previous shot was not convincing, this one goes from the middle of the bat. Short ball and its crashed to the deep midwicket boundary for a massive six, Karn Sharma punches the air
19.2
4
Stewart to KV Sharma, FOUR, that's gone fine on the off side, not a convincing shot but they'll take it. Full outside off again and Karn's slog gets a thick outside edge to go wide of third man
19.1
0
Stewart to KV Sharma, no run, full and just outside off, Karn slogs and misses

Seven to win from the last over, Navin Stewart has the ball

END OF OVER:
19 | 12 Runs | SRH: 154/6 (7 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 8.10, RRR: 7.00)

  • Thisara Perera57 (32b)
  • Karn Sharma3 (2b)
  • Ravi Rampaul4-0-39-0
  • Sunil Narine4-1-9-4
18.6
2
Rampaul to Perera, 2 runs, full on the pads, swivelled to deep square leg for two, Karn Sharma will be on strike
18.5
4
Rampaul to Perera, FOUR, another fulls toss and Perera cashes in, slams it between long-on and deep midwicket for four, he's gonna take them all the way or what?
18.4
1
Rampaul to KV Sharma, 1 run, full on off, swivelled to sweeper cover for a single

SRH 2nd innings Partnerships

WktRunsPlayers
1st35PA PatelS Dhawan
2nd10S DhawanJP Duminy
3rd25JP DuminyGH Vihari
4th25NLTC PereraGH Vihari
5th47DJG SammyNLTC Perera
6th0NLTC PereraA Ashish Reddy
7th22KV SharmaNLTC Perera