IPL 2020 – Match 11: SRH beat DC by 15 runs, record its first win of the season

Opener Jonny Bairstow’s sublime fifty was complemented by a stellar bowling effort from Rashid Khan as Sunrisers Hyderabad outplayed Delhi Capitals by 15 runs to open their account in the 13th IPL

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ABU DHABI, SEPT 29

Opener Jonny Bairstow’s sublime fifty was complemented by a stellar bowling effort from Rashid Khan as Sunrisers Hyderabad outplayed Delhi Capitals by 15 runs to open their account in the 13th IPL on Tuesday.

Leg-spinner Rashid (3/14) returned with three crucial wickets, while Bhuvneshwar Kumar (2/25) scalped two and T Natarajan and Khaleel Ahmed (1/43) claimed too chipped in to restrict Delhi to 147 for 7 in 2 for a deserving win.

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Delhi lost opener Prithvi Shaw (2) early in their chase but Shikhar Dhawan (34 off 31) and skipper Shreyas Iyer (17) took them to 34 for one in the first six overs.

Rashid got into the act straightaway, dismissing Iyer with his second ball and then returned to remove Dhawan with a wrong’un in the 12th over as DC slipped to 63 for three.

Rishabh Pant then smashed two sixes on both sides of the wicket in the 13th over to ease the pressure. Shimron Hetmyer (21) also joined the party, launching Khaleel Ahmed for successive sixes in the 15th over.

However, Bhuvneshwar came back to dismiss Hetmyer, before Pant became the third victim of Rashid.

Needing 59 runs from 30 balls, all eyes were on Marcus Stoinis (11) but he

was done in by a well placed yorker from Natarajan to end Delhi’s hopes.

Put in to bat, Bairstow (53 off 48) scored his second fifty of the tournament, while David Warner (45 off 33) and Kane Williamson (41 off 26) also came up with valuable contributions, helping Sunrisers Hyderabad post a competitive 162 for four.

Openers David Warner (45) and Jonny Bairstow (53) put up 77 runs before the former gloved a delivery from Amit Mishra to wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant in the 10th over. The umpire had initially turned down the appeal from DC but had to eventually reverse the decision after the replays showed that he had got a glove to it.

Mishra then dismissed Manish Pandey (3) in his next over after which Kane Williamson (41), playing his first match of the season, took the attack to the opposition. He put up 52 for the third wicket with Bairstow and accounted for most of the runs in the partnership.

Bairstow fell after scratching his way to a half-century in the 18th over while Williamson was dismissed in the last over.