Chennai : Hyderabad beat Punjab by 4 wickets in today’s IPL match.
Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings clashed at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium in Hyderabad today in the 69th IPL match. In this match, the Punjab team won the toss and elected to bat first. Punjab’s openers Prabsimran and Atharva Tydev put on a brilliant performance.
This was a good start for the Punjab team. Athrava Tyde was out for 46 and returned to the pavilion after a brilliant performance. Prabsimran and Riley Rousseau, paired for the next wicket, started piling up runs and the Punjab team’s score started to rise.
Also, the batsmen of the Punjab team who entered the field in succession also played aggressively. In the end, they scored 214 runs for the loss of 5 wickets in 20 overs. Prabsimran scored 71 runs off 45 balls as the highest for Punjab team. Natarajan took 2 wickets in the Hadhrabad team.
After that, the Hyderabad team set out to reach the Himalayan target of 215. Hyderabad’s Travis Head bounced back to bail on Harschel Patel’s first ball. After that Rahul Tripathi and Abhishek Sharma started playing aggressively.
With the action of the two, the Hyderabad team kept walking towards the goal with ease. Rahul Dhrupathi, who was playing well, lost the game for 33 runs. He was followed by Abhishek Sharma who scored 66 runs off 28 balls. Nitish Reddy and Clausen played together even though the two players lost the game.
Nitish Reddy was dismissed on 37 off Harshal Patel and the match started to get more lively. After that, Clausen and Shahbaz Ahmed were dismissed when they started to play steady. After that, Abdul Samad came in and showed action by hitting a six.
Also, with 9 runs needed from 12 balls, Claussen gave away his wicket to Harbreed Brarr in that over. After that Sanveer Singh who was in the field with 4 runs needed in the last over hit the ball for a boundary and made the team win. Thus, Hyderabad team won by 4 wickets.
If the Kolkata team wins the next Rajasthan-Kolkata match, the Hyderabad team will advance to the 2nd position after winning this match. It is noteworthy that Hyderabad team will play Kolkata team in Ahmedabad in the qualifier match to be held on 21st.
