IPL: David Warner hands Hyderabad 45-run win over Punjab

HYDERABAD: David Warner signed off his IPL 2019 marketing campaign in style, notching up his eighth fifty of the season to assist Sunrisers Hyderabad take a step closer in opposition to qualifying for the play-offs with a relaxed 45-run win over Kings XI Punjab on Monday.

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Playing his last fit of the season before heading home for World Cup arrangements, Warner struck a belligerent 81 off 56 balls with seven fours and two sixes to finish his IPL 2019 marketing campaign with 692 runs, the easiest to this point within the tournament.

Chasing the enforcing overall, KL Rahul (79 off 56, 4x4s, 5x6s) made a valiant effort with the bat however lacked strengthen from the opposite end as Kings XI were limited to 167 for eight.

By distinctive feature of this win, Sunrisers have consolidated their fourth place within the table with 12 points from 12 games, while Kings XI are at 10 points from as many suits.

Both the teams have two extra suits to go with Kings XI nonetheless within the hunt.

Kings XI needed a brisk get started however they did not get one, shedding explosive Chris Gayle early.

Gayle departed within the first ball of the 3rd over, brilliantly caught via Manish Pandey off Khaleel Ahmed (three/40) with Kings XI scoreboard studying 11.

Thereafter, Rahul and Mayank Agarwal (27 off 18) added 60 off 39 balls to take Kings XI forward.

But simply when the partnership was once shopping threatening, Agarwal was once holed via Vijay Shankar off Rashid Khan (three/21) within the 9th over.

New man in Nicholas Pooran (21 off 10) performed a short breezy knock before Bhuvneshwar Kumar took a phenomenal catch at long-leg boundary off Ahmed to ship packing the batsman.

Rashid then came to the birthday party and picked up two wickets -- David Miller (11 off 11) and skipper Ravichandran Ashwin -- in consecutive balls within the 13th over to face in a chance of registering a hat-trick which failed to materialise.

From there on, the asking fee was once tall for Rahul and debutant Prabhsimran Singh (16) and the former in any case perished within the 19th over after a phenomenal knock to shut the doors for Kings XI.

Earlier, Warner and Wriddhiman Saha (28 off 13) were given Sunrisers off to a brisk get started after being sent into bat. The duo took the Kings XI bowlers to the cleaners to pile up 77 runs off the first six overs of powerplay.

Warner made his intentions transparent from the onset, hitting young Arshdeep Singh for two boundaries within the opening over after which adopted it up with a six over long-off in Mujeeb Ur Rahman's subsequent over.

Mujeeb was once in for some remedy as Warner hit two extra boundaries within the spinner's subsequent over after which Saha additionally found the fence to bring up Sunrisers' fifty within the fourth over.

Saha then went after Mohammed Shami (2/36) and hit the pacer for a boundary and 6 off consecutive balls.

Saha's innings came to an end when he under-edged a Murugan Ashwin supply to debutant Prabhsimran Singh behind the stumps. Saha shared 78 runs off 6.2 overs with Warner for the opening stand.

Warner endured in the similar vein and notched up his eighth fifty of the season with a boundary off Shami within the 12th over.

Then came in in-form Manish Pandey (36 off 25) and he too performed a handy guide a rough knock in Warner's corporate.

Pandey, who struck three fours and a six, added 82 off 55 balls together with Warner before Kings XI skipper Ravichandran Ashwin (2/20) struck twin blows within the 16th over to remove both the set batsmen.

First Ashwin accounted for Pandey after which two balls later disregarded Warner, caught via Mujeeb at point of what was once a tired-looking shot.

Then skipper Kane Williamson (14 off 7) and Mohammad Nabi (20 off 10) additionally performed quick cameos in opposition to the top.