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IPL 2020 | SRH vs KXIP: Bairstow, Rashid heroics eclipse Pooran blitz as Hyderabad wrestle third spot

Brief Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 201/6 in 20 overs (Jonny Bairstow 97, David Warner 52; Ravi Bishnoi 3/29) 

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Kings XI Punjab 132 all out in 16.5 overs (Nicholas Pooran 77, KL Rahul 11; Rashid Khan 3/12) by 69 runs.

Sunrisers Hyderabad rode on a quintessential Jonny Bairstow (97) and David Warner (52) picnic at the top alongside Rashid Khan's 3/12 to skittle Kings XI Punjab by a whopping 69-run margin in the 22nd game of the Indian Premier League 2020 at the Dubai International Stadium.

Plonking runs on the board and then relying on the bowling arsenal to do the job has always been SRH's go-to mantra. The cruel opening pair of Warner-Bairstow fulfilled the initial requirement in grand style, sharing a magnanimous 160 in what was a leather hunt for the ages. In response, Nicholas Pooran quarrelled a lone war for his six-studded 77 as KXIP choked to their fifth defeat on Thursday, 8 October at Dubai.

Clinical SRH draw early inroads

It was imperative that a secure foundation be laid by openers Mayank Agarwal and KL Rahul to boost KXIP's prospects of accomplishing the uphill task. Though reality seldom matches the hype and expectations are generally followed by disappointment. Ascribe it to David Warner's electric fielding or the schoolboy error of ball-watching, Rahul committed to a second run before withdrawing at the last moment to sell Agarwal down the river.

Fastracked up the pecking order with the license to kill, Prabhsimran Singh picked the bones out of Khaleel Ahmed's wide tempter only to nail it straight down cover point's lap. Abhishek Sharma floated a couple of gimmies bang into the arc as Nicholas Pooran meted him the deserved treatment, but anchor Rahul perishing to a top-edged sweep wasn't too bad a remuneration either for the budding left-arm.

Pooran leaves no stone unturned in KXIP's riposte

One minute silence for those who missed what transpired next. Pooran blitzed a gallery of range-hitting to strip 28 off Abdul Samad's 9th over, also wedging to a 17-ball fifty - the fastest in IPL 2020 - in the process. The pendulum had just briefly oscillated in KXIP's favour when livewire Priyam Garg conjured a direct hit to depart the struggling Glenn Maxwell. Rashid Khan then added insult to injury, castling Mandeep Singh with a foxy wrong'un to push SRH into the driver's seat.

With 85 needed off 42 balls, Khaleel Ahmed nicked Mujeeb Ur Rahman behind in a comical episode of umpire verdicts and an eleventh-hour review. Running out of support big time, lone-ranger Pooran too bit the dust off Rashid as a flamboyant square-cut met backward point. There was no possibility in hell of the tail wagging against a champion of an attack, as SRH left the company of their bottom-dwelling counterparts to shift to where they hierarchically belong.

Warner-Bairstow deliver a #throwback moment

KXIP unleashed their trump cards in young Prabhsimran Singh, Arshdeep Singh and Mujeeb Ur Rahman at the expense of Chris Jordan, Harpreet Brar and Sarfaraz Ahmed in a bid to optimize the squad balance. Having blown hot and cold thus far in the season as a twin, normal services resumed for David Warner and Jonny Bairstow as SRH walloped to an unscathed 58 - their best Powerplay score of the ongoing edition. The solitary glitch during that breeze was the right-hander's timid loft, which eluded KL Rahul's goalkeeper dive at mid-off. Reprieved on a personal score of 19, Bairstow cleared the ropes at will henceforward to notch his fifty off 28 deliveries. He took a particular liking to Glenn Maxwell's part-time off-break and Ravi Bishnoi as the duo clinched their fifth 100-run partnership in IPL history.

Bishnoi's temperament proves a silver lining

Rahul shuffled the deckchairs in terms of bowling resources but the Warner-Bairstow juggernaut rode roughshod over anyone who obstructed its path. The massacre was verging on the genocide territory when a lion-hearted Bishnoi sent both openers packing to offer KXIP a huge sigh of relief. While the southpaw miscued a googly to long-on right after availing his half-century, Bairstow fell three short of a well-deserved hundred to a leg-before referral.

Having ploughed for an overall tally of 35 overs to end their wicket drought, KXIP nabbed three in seven balls as Arshdeep guiled Manish Pandey into a feeble return chip. The wunderkind Bishnoi could've mugged another scalp had Nicholas Pooran at long-off not made a meal of Abdul Samad's flat thump. Nonetheless, Arshdeep's bucket hands ensured the leggie finally had Samad's number, concluding with prolific figures of 3/29 with an over left to spare.

KXIP pull off an incredible heist, well almost...

Pooran made amends for the shelled chance to remove Priyam Garg, but Kane Williamson joined forces with Abhishek Sharma to give SRH the psychological edge of breaching 200. However, that the orange brigade could only juice out 41 at the cost of 6 wickets in the last five overs after being 160 for zero at 15th's completion puts into perspective KXIP's jaw-dropping late retaliation.

What's next in store?

Kolkata Knight Riders must be rubbing their hands in glee as they await a battered and bruised Kings XI Punjab in the first of the weekend's double-header. Looking in fine fettle now, Sunrisers Hyderabad should be wary of the complacency factor in their rubber against Rajasthan Royals on 11 October, Sunday.

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IPL 2020| SRH vs KXIP: Hits and Flops of the game as Sunrisers dismantle Kings XI Punjab

The Kings XI Punjab team management will understand the lesson of building a core team and identifying the bunch of players who have to be backed for a considerable number of matches for long tournaments such as the Indian Premier League. The team has been looking for too many people to address the challenges rather than trusting players to come up with good results and as a result, the team does not know where to go and who all are to be backed in mid of the tournament. In contrast, the Sunrisers understand their nucleus and back the preferred combination to take them over the line. The difference between the strategy and the impact it can have was all evident in the match between the two sides as the duo of David Warner and Jonny Bairstow piled on the agony for the Kings XI Punjab team. Here we rate the best and the worst performance from the game between the Sunrisers and Kings XI. Hits Jonny Bairstow Bairstow was under pressure and was not looking in his usual touch of smashing balls around the park but the Sunrisers decided to put faith in his flamboyant and he was not to disappoint the team. A full toss from Mujeeb Ur Rahman got him going and the English opener did not look back on his out of touch batting. On the back of back to back boundaries in Sheldon Cottrell’s over and followed by an onslaught of Ravi Bishnoi, Bairstow powered along to a 27-ball-50. It was his third fifty of this season of the IPL but the fact that this inning was paced with the help of sublime timings and flair, usual characteristics of Bairstow’s game will give relief to the Sunrisers camp going into the business end of the tournament after this week. Bairstow partnered with David Warner to produce a masterpiece of partnership, marching the orange army so ahead of the game that it looked beyond Kings XI Punjab’s grasp even before they started the chase. Rashid Khan There is hardly any game when Rashid Khan fails in a T-20 game and games like these when the Sunrises dominated the Kings XI Punjab, it would have been all but obvious to find Rashid Khan bowling a superb spell to stamp victory for his team. Rashid Khan has been a proven match-winner for the Hyderabad team and tonight when Nicholas Pooran was fighting a long and tough battle against a mounting required rate and falling wickets at the other end, it was Rashid who hit the nail in the coffin for the Kings XI, dismissing the Caribbean left-hander in his last over. Rashid ended the day with a stupendous figure of 12/3, which is beyond the point of belief for any other bowler but nor Rashid. Nicholas Pooran Nicholas Pooran, the world knows about, has finally arrived in the Indian Premier League 2020. He was aggressive from the outset and when Warner took a punt on him, introducing left-arm spinner Abhishek Sharma, Pooran’s eyes lit up and he started going berserk from the moment he landed on the crease. He especially got stuck into leg spinner Abdul Samad and sent him for 28 runs in his only over in the night to all corners of the ground. Pooran was looking in a dismissive touch as the balls were hitting the middle of his bat, but one of the biggest cliche in the cricket that breaks do wonder to break a batsman’s flow of batting worked against him as well and he ended up cutting a deli9very from Rashid Khan in the 15th over to point folder, ending the narrowest of chances the Kings XI Punjab had in the game. Flops KL Rahul The day was a forgettable one for KL Rahul, both as a captain and the leader of the Kings XI Punjab side. Commentators raised eyebrows at his too much tinkering with the playing xi, suggestive of insecurity in the team management about the quality of players and the reservations they had turned out to be true. The KXIP had made an impressive start in the IPL but now after playing six matches in this season, languishes at the bottom of the points table and a lot of the blame has to go Rahul's way for his mismanagement of players so early in the tournament. There is a fine line between being flexible with the team selection and tinkering too much and for now, it seems that line is too blurred for the duo KL Rahul and Anil Kumble who has not been ankle to identify the bunch of players the team should build its nucleus upon. KL Rahul, the batsman had a mediocre night as well as he scooped a catch to deep square leg fiddler, stationed specifically for his sweep shots against left-arm spinners. He was dismissed before he could impart any damage to the Sunrisers bowling but he also ran Mayank Agarwal out after calling him for a second run while David Warner brilliantly stopped the ball to send Agarwal back to the dugout. After Agarwal’s dismissal, Rahul could not have failed if the KXIP had to chase the total in excess of 200 but today he could not rise up to the challenges and perished for a mere 16-ball-11. Mohammed Shami Shami had a rare off day in the ongoing season of the IPL and the opening pair of Bairstow and Warner did not miss the opportunity to police on him from his very first over. Shami was inconsistent in his lengths and Bairstow, in particular, was very severe on anything too full bowled against him. He was hit for 40 runs off his four overs as the Kings XI Punjab struggled to break the momentum of the Sunrisers batting and could never recover from the hammerings handed out to them by the Bairstow-Warner partnership. Slowly and steadily, the Sunrisers are coming back to close to their best in all the departments. While the opening pair clicked which has been the signature of SRH’s success over the years, the team also outplayed the KL Rahul’s Kings in the field department. They pulled out two big wickets of Mayank Agarwal and Glenn Maxwell via run outs who could have changed the fate of the game. With this game, SRH has jumped the ladder on the points table and reached the third position with three wins and three losses from the six games they have played so far this season.

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IPL 2020 | RR vs DC: Match Preview, Predicted XI & Dream 11 Fantasy Picks

The two teams from the northern part of India will see off after having a contrasting fortune in their last games after making a resounding start into the ongoing season of the Indian Premier League. While the Delhi Capitals led by Shreyas Iyer is on a high, winning 4 out of their five matches this season, Steve Smith’s Rajasthan Royals have not been able to maintain their winning run after the first two matches and lost the last three matches on the trot. Delhi looks like a formidable team, built on players who are in their primes while the Royals have not been served well by the big players along with youngsters failing to raise the game to fill the void left by seniors’ failures. Delhi’s bowlers have been at the top of their game and have dismantled almost every team they have played against while Royals’ bowlers have been failing to check the oppositions’ batting line up from building up a good score. The match between Capitals and Royals will see a fierce contest between Rajasthan’s top order and Delhi's pace bowlers. Delhi’s pace battery is being spearheaded by Kagiso Rabada who has been in a red hot form this season but the Delhi Capitals have found an unknown hero in Anrich Nortje who has forced batsmen in the tournament to pay attention to his brilliance him while they face the challenges of Kagiso Rabada. Delhi’s batting line up too, have been dominating the bowlers in their last few games after starting the season on an inauspicious note. Shikhar Dhawan and Prithvi Shaw have been able to forge a decent counter-attacking partnership at the top of the order followed by Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant in the middle overs to take on the spinners in oppositions’ line up. Marcus Stoinis has been superb and he has made good use of his muscles in the tournament powering Delhi to impressive scores. The fact that the team is already on winning ways while the likes of Rishabh Pant and Shemron Hetmyer are yet to find the devastating forms will give Iyer and Ricky Ponting a huge amount of confidence going into the moving part of this season. On the other hand, it has been really tough going for the Royals since their honeymoon with the short boundaries at the Sharjah cricket ground got over. With pressure mounting on the allotment of the batting order, Steve Smith tried to correct the top order and introduced India’s rookie Yashasvi Jaiswal but the left-hander could not help the teams and got out in the very first over in the last game against Mumbai Indians. The team will no hope for a similar showing from the batsmen as their journey comes back to Sharjah in the match against the Delhi Capitals Steve Smith has not been able to translate his form in the earlier matches and the team finds itself in a bit of a quagmire after losing all the momentum it had after winning the first two games on the back of high power-hitting game in the batting department. Royals need their two pillars of batting--Jos Buttler and Steve Smith to come good if they have to stand any chance to challenge this inform bowling line up of the Delhi Capitals. Rajasthan Royals vs Delhi Capitals: Match Details Match number- 23 Date: October 9, 2020 at 7:30 PM IST, 02:00 PM GMT, 6:00 PM Local Venue: Sharjah Pitch and Weather A fresh pitch will be used for the match between the Delhi Capitals and the Rajasthan Royals which means batsmen will have all the luxury of balls coming nicely on the bat , added with very small boundaries on parts of the Sharjah cricket ground. Spinners would have had a tough time anyway but the new pitch will make their life worse and it will be a challenge for someone like Ravichandran Ashwin who will be up against Steve Smith and Jos Buttler. The weather conditions in the UAE have been superb to host any cricketing tournament with no chance of rain and humidity well within the enduring levels of players. Team News Rajasthan Royals The RR team management had made three changes in the playing XI for the last game against Mumbai Indians including Yashasvi Jaiswal, Kartik Tyagi, and Ankit Rajpoot but only Kartik Tyagi could perform distinctively while Rajpoot went for 2 runs in his three overs and Jaiswal went for a duck. Varun Aaron may earn a call up into the playing XI in place of Ankit Rajpoot while Jaiswal is likely to get an extended run. Ben Stokes has not completed the quarantine period after landing in the Emirates and the Royals will have to wait a little longer to have the services of its star all-rounder. Expected XI Jos Buttler (wk), Yashasvi Jaiswal, Steven Smith (captain), Sanju Samson, Mahipal Lomror, Rahul Tewatia, Jofra Archer, Tom Curran, Shreyas Gopal, Varun Aaron, Kartik Tyagi Delhi Capitals Shreyas Iyer has bid farewell to Amit Mishra whose IPL journey was cut short due to an injury but Axar Patel has stepped up in his absence to fill the gap of a spinner turning the ball away from right-handers for the team management. The Capitals are unlikely to change their playing XI barring any last-minute injury concerns and that means Ajinkya Rahane will continue to miss out from playing in the IPL this year. 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IPL 2020: Ponting wanted me to 'Mankad' Aaron Finch, reveals Ravi Ashwin

Delhi Capitals spinner Ravi Ashwin has revealed that head coach Ricky Ponting wanted to stand up and tell him to take off the bails at the non-striker’s end to dismiss Aaron Finch. The incident took place during the game between Royal challengers Bangalore and the Shreyas Iyer-led side. Opener Finch backed up way too early at the non-striker’s end but Ashwin gave him a reprieve - sending out a clear warning to the batters not to repeat the same. Ashwin took to Youtube and shed light on the matter. “How far he (Finch) went out! I was about to stand and tell you to run him out,” Ponting told Ashwin at the dinner table after the game against RCB. The 34-year-old spinner also said that batsmen would try to back-up a bit too far in order to run singles and doubles. “As I ran into bowl that delivery, just before I got into my delivery stride and jump, a golden helmet is rolling along, like a detached coach of a train. I then stopped and thought, ‘should I run him out or not’? He still didn’t come back, he was looking at me. He is a good friend since the days of Kings XI Punjab. A very good man. I have spent lots of time with him in the evenings. I thought, ‘okay let it go, let this be a final warning.” Earlier last season, Ashwin was in the spotlight as he ‘Mankaded’ Jos Buttler during Kings XI Punjab’s match against Rajasthan Royals. Punjab did win the game after a well-settled Buttler had to walk back to the pavilion but Ashwin had to face a lot of flak.