3123dThe Report by George Binoy

Warner keeps Sunrisers in the race

Sunrisers Hyderabad needed to win this game in Ranchi to avoid elimination and David Warner's punishing innings secured the two points that took his team to fifth place

Match Centre

Statistics

Best performances - Batsmen

DA Warner
DA Warner
90(45) 12x4 - 3x6
Control %93%
  • Productive Shot
  • on drive
  • 19 runs
  • 3x4 - 1x6
8 0 7 14 26 15 5 15
S Dhawan
S Dhawan
64(49) 4x4 - 2x6
Control %83%
  • Productive Shot
  • pull
  • 13 runs
  • 1x4 - 1x6
8 0 8 10 22 7 3 6

Best performances - Bowlers

KV Sharma
KV Sharma
O4
M0
R19
W2
Eco4.75
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • FTFULL TOSS
  • YYORKER
  • FFULL LENGTH
  • GGOOD LENGTH
  • SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
  • SSHORT LENGTH
LHB
LEGOFF
1W
SK Raina
SK Raina
O2
M0
R17
W1
Eco8.5
RHB
OFFLEG
1W
  • 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)

20.00 start, First Session 20.00-21.25, Interval 21.25-21.45, Second Session 21.45-23.05

Match days

22 May 2014 - night match (20-over match)

Reserve Umpire

Match Referee

Points

Sunrisers Hyderabad 2, Chennai Super Kings 0

Presentation:

Sammy: "We have been rising to the challenge, looking to control what we can. Good thing we bowled first. Credit to Warner and Dhawan. After a few games you tend to look for ways to improve, and Warner has always been better up the order. We can just hope things go in our favour."

Warner is the Man of the Match: "(Didn't score a century) Importantly we won and credit to Shikhar for back to back fifties. I love batting at the top of the order and I also enjoyed batting in the middle order. I obviously like to hit as many over the boundary."

Dhoni: "We have to address it (defeats). We have lost a few games very easily. The easier thing would be to chase in each and every game. I went in and ate up quite a few deliveries but 185 was a decent score but under par. I think we needed 230, our new ball bowlers are not getting wickets with the new ball."

That's it from us here tonight. Two more games tomorrow, as the race for the last two playoff spots gets more competitive. Thanks for your company. Good night!

End of match: Quite a clinical chase in the end by SRH despite the chase going into the final over. They hardly broke into a sweat. A few needless wickets but importantly, Dhawan was there from the start. SRH must be wondering why they didn't hit this form earlier in the tournament. They live to fight another day.

CSK were flat on the field.

So Dhoni reckons they needed to score 230. That's the level of confidence he has in his bowlers. That's a worrying sign ahead of the playoffs.

19.4
4
Jadeja to Venugopal Rao, FOUR, the field was up and Rao decides to go airborne, tossed up and he lofts him one bounce down to long-on and it's a win with two balls to spare
19.3
1
Jadeja to Dhawan, 1 run, they scamper through for a single as Dhawan digs it out to point, Hastings' throw was all over the place

SRH take another chase to the final over. The scorecard at the stadium has 184 and the TV showed 183. Confusion here. It has been corrected to 184 so two to win

19.2
W
Jadeja to Sammy, OUT, Sammy has given it away here! This was dropped on a length and he was looking to muscle that over long-on and the fielder ran forward and took the catch

DJG Sammy c du Plessis b Jadeja 0 (4m 3b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0

19.1
0
Jadeja to Sammy, no run,

END OF OVER:
19 | 8 Runs 1 Wkt | SRH: 184/3 (2 runs required from 6 balls, RR: 9.68, RRR: 2.00)

  • Shikhar Dhawan63 (48b)
  • Daren Sammy0 (1b)
  • Pawan Negi4-0-38-0
  • Suresh Raina2-0-17-1
18.6
2
Negi to Dhawan, 2 runs,
18.5
0
Negi to Dhawan, no run, Appeal for a stumping! Dhawan was reaching out outside off to drive and he was beaten and he just about managed to drag his back foot back, the third umpire takes a look

Captaincy burden?

0

No. of fifties for Shikhar Dhawan (in 10 matches) as captain of Sunrisers - he has five (in 13 matches) when not leading the side

Just missed

1

No. of times that a team has won by 9 wickets while chasing a 180+ total in IPL (<b>Daredevils</b> v Chargers in 2012).

No luck for bowlers

4

The fewest number of wickets to fall in an IPL match lasting 40 overs

Beating History

2

No of 100+ opening stands by Warner and Dhawan in two matches. Sunrisers, over two seasons, have no other opening partnership in excess of 90.

Power hitters

9

No. of batsmen who have hit a fifty inside the powerplay in IPL. David Warner reached his off the penultimate ball

Spin-friendly

0

No. of Powerplay overs bowled by pacers in CSK's last game in Ranchi (v KKR). This is the only time this has happened in the IPL.

Uncharted Territory

0

No. of times, in four attempts, that Sunrisers have chased down a 170+ score in the IPL.

Batting giants

21

No. of 180+ scores by Super Kings in the IPL - the most by any team.

Achilles' Heel

24

Runs conceded by Dale Steyn off the final over - joint most expensive for him in all T20 cricket. Dhoni was involved both times.

Stunning

2

No. of bowlers who have bowled a maiden in the 20th over in the IPL - Lasith Malinga and Irfan Pathan.

Switching gears

180

MS Dhoni's strike rate in the last five overs of an innings - his strike rate in the first 15 is 111.

Tough Feat

2

No. of batsmen who have hit Dale Steyn for more than two sixes in IPL - MS Dhoni (4) and AB de Villiers (5)