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IPL 2021: Twitter Erupts As SunRisers Hyderabad Bottle A Winning Position To Hand Royal Challengers Bangalore Their 2nd Successive Win Of The Season

By Yash Mittal

Updated - 15 Apr 2021, 01:17 AM

Virat Kohli, Royal Challengers Bangalore, SunRisers Hyderabad
RCB. [Image-IPLT20]

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SunRisers Hyderabad was cruising at 1-96 in 13.1 overs but the fall of David Warner’s wicket triggered a KKR-esque collapse as they managed a mere 47 runs for the loss of seven wickets in the next 6.4 overs to hand the Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore their second consecutive win of the season.

Defending 150, Royal Challengers Bangalore got off to a brilliant start thanks to Mohammed Siraj, who once again breathed fire in the powerplay.

Siraj, who got the ball to swing, was absolutely relentless with his line and length and he gave nothing away, eventually reaping reward with the wicket of Wriddhiman Saha.

Saha, who had struggled his way to a 9-ball 1, perished in an attempt to break the shackles as he holed out at point to Glenn Maxwell while trying to cur Siraj.

While Siraj gave away just two runs in his two overs, Kyle Jamieson proved to be very expensive at the other end as David Warner and Manish Pandey laid into the Kiwi pacer.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, SunRisers Hyderabad
David Warner [Image-IPLT20]
Warner pulled Jamieson for a four in his first over and followed it up another four and a six in the next while Pandey too chipped in with an audacious six over long-on.

The momentum seemingly shifted with that Jamieson as Warner got into his groove and smacked two more boundaries off Mohammed Siraj in the final over of the powerplay to take SunRisers Hyderabad to 1/50.

Manish Pandey [Image-IPLT20]
Yuzvendra Chahal bowled beautifully during his two-over spell after the powerplay. He gave away just 12 runs and could have got Manish Pandey when he induced an outside edge of the right-hander’s bat with a ripping leg-break but Virat had no slip in place.

SRH managed 20 runs between overs 6-9 but most importantly they did not lose a wicket.

Kohli brought Harshal Patel in the attack and the right-hander was greeted with a powerful drive past the diving mid-off fielder.

Warner was on an absolute rampage. The champion opener dished out a reverse-sweep off Chahal in the next over and then backed it up with a conventional sweep on what was a poor delivery from the Indian leggie. The southpaw soon completed his 53rd 50+ score off just 31 balls.

Kyle Jamieson after dismissing David Warner [Image-IPLT20]
He was eventually dismissed by Kyle Jamieson in the 14th over after he mistimed it straight to long-on. Shahbaz Ahmed followed it up with a brilliant over in which he gave away just six runs to reduce the equation to 42 off the last five.

With  Manish Pandey going at just a run-a-ball, the onus fell on Jonny Bairstow to spearhead the run-chase. Chahal gave 7 runs in his last over and it all boiled down to the last four overs with SunRisers Hyderabad needing 35.

Shahbaz Ahmed [Image-IPLT20]
It wasn’t to be though as Bairstow perished for a 13-ball 12 after he skied an attempted slog-sweep off Shahbaz Ahmed and AB de Villiers completed a brilliant running catch. Ahmed went bang bang as Manish Pandey, who hadn’t stroked a four since the 8th over, finally went for one but the only issue was that he [38 off 39 balls] miscued it to give an easy catch to Harshal Patel at short third-man.

It was Shahbaz Ahmed’s night as the left-arm spinner claimed his third wicket of the over in the form of Abdul Samad, who top-edged an attempted sweep shot.

The wheels came off for SunRisers Hyderabad as Vijay Shankar holed out in the deep in the next over bowled by Harshal Patel. With 27 needed off the last 12 balls, Rashid Khan smoked a six past backward point off Siraj to start the 19th over but the fast bowler held his nerve and got rid of Jason Holder, leaving 16 in the bank for Harshal Patel to defend.

Harshal Patel bowled a waist-high no-ball on the 2nd ball of the over, which Rashid Khan pulled for a four but the young bowler backed it up with a brilliant slower bouncer. Khan was eventually run-out on the next delivery in an attempt to take the second run and that proved to be the final nail in SunRisers Hyderabad’s coffin.

 

 

Glenn Maxwell’s 41-ball 59 led Royal Challengers Bangalore to 8/149 against SunRisers Hyderabad.

Batting first, the Virat Kohli-led Royal Challengers Bangalore got off to a poor start as they lost opener Devdutt Padikkal in just the third over of their innings.

Padikkal, who had missed the first game due to Covid related issues, announced himself in IPL 2021 with a couple of boundaries against Jason Holder.

The stylish southpaw stroked his first four by whipping Holder off his hip past the short fine-leg region and then backed it up with a crunching shot over cover-point.

But barring those two strokes, Padikkal largely struggled for timing on what is a slow pitch in Chennai. He tried ugly hoicks against Bhuvneshwar Kumar and eventually fell after he mistimed the attempted pull-stroke and Shahbaz Nadeem at mid-wicket did the rest by taking a low catch.

Virat Kohli. (Credits: Twitter)

Virat Kohli, who had announced himself with a four-over Bhuvneshwar Kumar’s head in the first over, struggled to get going against Jason Holder.

After having gone 8 balls without scoring a boundary, Kohli finally broke the shackles as he danced down the track and swivel pulled T Natarajan for a four behind square and then backed it up with a stylish flick past deep backward square for another boundary.

Royal Challengers Bangalore finished the powerplay at 1/47 but they suffered an immediate blow on the very first ball of the 7th over as Shahbaz Ahmed, in an attempt to hit another six off Nadeem, holed out at deep backward-square thanks to a brilliant running catch from Rashid Khan.

With the ball turning a lot, the duo of Shahbaz Nadeem and Rashid Khan, Glenn Maxwell struggled to maneuver the strike, managing just 9 runs off his first 16 balls.

Royal Challengers Bangalore, SunRisers Hyderabad
Glenn Maxwell [Image-IPLT20]
He finally broke the shackles in the next over by smoking Shahbaz Nadeem for a six past backward square-leg before following it up with a four past covers and then pummelling the left-arm orthodox for a six over deep midwicket.

Virat joined the party as he shimmied down the track and lofted Nadeem over his head to take 22 runs off the 11th over.

Jason Holder celebrates Virat Kohli’s wicket. (Credits: Twitter)

Kohli, however, for the second successive time, failed to convert his start as he fell for a 29-ball 33- the exact score that he had managed in the first game- after he mistimed an attempted pull-off Jason Holder.

The Challengers were dealt with a dual blow as AB de Villiers (1 off 5 balls) failed to repeat his heroics from the last game.

Rashid Khan, AB de Villiers
Rashid Khan dismisses AB de Villiers [Image-IPLT20]
It all happened on the fourth ball of the 14th ball when AB de Villiers, in an attempt to slap a short ball outside off-stump past the cover region, ended up hitting it straight to the SRH skipper David Warner at short-cover.

Khan (2-18 in 4 overs) claimed another scalp in the form of Washington Sundar thanks to a brilliant diving catch by Manish Pandey before Natarajan knocked over Dan Christian to leave Royal Challengers Bangalore reeling at 7/110 after 17 overs.

But Maxwell and Jamieson smashed as many five fours in overs 18 and 19 bowled by Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Natarajan to bring some momentum to the innings.

Jamieson (12 off 9) perished for the cause in the last over but Maxwell, who stroked his first IPL fifty since 2016, smoked a six, and even though he got out on the last ball, his innings ensured that RCB finished at a respectable 8/149.

 

Here’s how Twitter reacted:

 

 

https://twitter.com/R3Mitul/status/1382354270067036162?s=19

https://twitter.com/DanishSait/status/1382345130644971521?s=19

https://twitter.com/im_yash2307/status/1382326630140452869?s=19

 

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