IPL 2022: SunRisers Hyderabad thrash Punjab Kings by 7 wickets

SunRisers Hyderabad registered their second successive win on Sunday as they defeated Punjab Kings by 7 wickets at the DY Patil Stadium, Mumbai. In their previous game, SRH defeated Kolkata Knight Riders. Aiden Markram shone again with the bat as the South African scored an unbeaten 41 while sharing 75 runs partnership with Nicholas Pooran as SRH chased down the modest target in 18.5 overs. 

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Put to bat
first, Punjab Kings were bowled out for 151 in 20 overs after Liam Livingstone
scored 60. Rising fast bowler Umran Malik picked up four wickets while
Bhuvneshwar Kumar scalped three.

Openers Shikhar
Dhawan and Prabhsimran Singh provided a slow start to PBKS as they only
gathered eight runs in two overs. In the third over of the innings, SRH’s
experienced bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar dismissed Dhawan.

Liam
Livingstone’s half-century was well accompanied by Shahrukh Khan’s quick 26
guided PBKS to a defendable target.

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Jonny Bairstow
then walked out to bat with Prabhsimran and tried to anchor the partnership for
the second wicket. The opener smashed back-to-back boundaries before he was
removed by T Natarajan for 14 runs in 11 deliveries.

PBKS lost their
two important batters in the powerplay which put Punjab under pressure. The
star batter of PBKS Liam Livingstone walked out to bat and the latter
hammered Marco Jansen in the sixth over of the match for 15 runs.

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SRH skipper
introduced Jagadeesha Suchith into the attack and the bowler justified
captain’s decision as he removed Bairstow for 12 runs leaving Punjab at 48/3.
Jitesh Sharma joined Livingstone on the crease to take their team’s score
beyond the 50-run mark in the seventh over.

In the 8th over
of the innings, Umran Malik dismissed Sharma after he scored just 11 runs.
After the half-way of the innings, Punjab was at 70/4. Livingstone anchored a
much-needed steady partnership with Shahrukh Khan and the duo took their team’s
score beyond the 100-run mark in the 13th over of the innings. The duo also
stitched up a much-needed partnership for Punjab.

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Livingstone
batted aggressively and notched up his half-century in 26 deliveries. On the
other hand, Khan played sensibly to keep Punjab’s scoreboard moving. The
brilliant partnership of 71 runs was broken as Bhuvneshwar Kumar removed
Shahrukh Khan on the first ball of the 17th over leaving PBKS at 132/5.

Bhuvneshwar gave
his team a much-needed breakthrough as he dismissed well-set batter Livingstone
for 60. In the last over of the innings, Umran Malik struck thrice as he
removed Odean Smith, Rahul Chahar and Vaibhav Arora to restrict PBKS to 151 all
out.

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In reply, Abhishek Sharma (31 off 25 balls), Rahul Tripathi (34 off 22 balls), Aiden Markram (41 off 27 balls) and Nicholas Pooran (35 off 30) helped SRH chase down the target with seven balls to spare.