By Brian Thomas.
Sunrisers Hydrabad is indebted to Henrich Klassan that he saved the day of SRH being restricted to double digits after the home team were reduced to 24 for 4 wickets in the power play overs , and 35 for 5 wickets in the 9th over after the dismissal of Aniket Varma. The much needed aid came from Henrich Klassan, who made 71 and Manohar 43 , stiching a face saving partnership of 99 runs for the 6th wicket that saved the home team from embarrassment.
Chasing 146 in good batting conditions is a walk in the park for the Mumbai Indians especially with the return to form by Rohit Sharma and the consistency of Suriyakuma Yadev
Trent Boult blew away the Sunrisers batters like nine pins ,whilst Rohit Sharma stuck the hapless Sunrisers Hydrabad bowlers like executing his rapatua of strokes whilst batting in the practice nets.
144 as a target was achieved with an envisaged objective of first getting to the target and boosting the net runrate to get to the top 4 and be within striking distance of the playoffs.
SRH did the Mumbai Indians a forced favour. Their batting faulted with Travis Head and Ishan Kishan failing again , and the bowlers given tremendous pressure to defend a below par score only to be cartered round the park.
Rohit Sharma stuck 70 in 46 balls with 8 boundaries and 3 sixes , whilst Suriyakuma Yadev stuck at knots 40 in 19 balls , with 8 hits to the ropes and 2 over it. His strike rate was 210.32, and this exposed the disappointment in the faces of the SRH fans , speculations by their fan base even wondering if their selectors had backed the wrong horses at the IPL auctions in Jeddah.
The above are only speculative thoughts.
Trent Boult was pinpoint accurate in targeting the stumps whilst in pursuit against the SRH batters in both spells in the power play as well as in the death overs . The left arm seamer from New Zealand took 4 for 26 in his quota of 4 overs .
The Mahela Jayawardena coached team climbing up the order. They are in 3rd place with Sunrisers Hydrabad at number 9 lamenting with Chennai Super Kings in 10th place.
Unless otherwise, Sunrisers Hydrabad fire with Travis Head, Ishan Kishan, and Abisheik Sharma Currently batting In the top 3, for their franchise they will end up being a spent force tagged as ” who also played the IPL 25.”
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