Sunrisers Hyderabad stopped the victory chariot of Gujarat Titans by winning the 21st match of IPL 2022 by 8 wickets. Before this match, Gujarat was the only team that no one could beat, but today Sunrisers Hyderabad did it. Batting first, Gujarat Titans had set a target of 163 runs in front of Hyderabad on the basis of captain Hardik Pandya’s half-century. Which the team achieved with 5 balls remaining. Hyderabad needed one run to win in the last over and Nicholas Pooran hit a long six in the direction of mid-wicket to give victory to the team. This is Hyderabad’s second consecutive win of the season and they are at the 8th position in the points table.
Kane Williamson won the toss and decided to bowl first in this match. Gujarat did not start well in this match. In the powerplay, he had two major setbacks in the form of Shubman (7) Gill and Sai Sudarshan (11). In the last match against Punjab, these two batsmen had a century partnership. Captain Hardik Pandya, who came to bat after the fall of two wickets, played an unbeaten innings of 50 runs. During this, Abhinav Manohar supported him by scoring 35 runs. Apart from Umran, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan got 2-2 successes for Hyderabad.
Hyderabad started chasing the target was very slow. In the first 4 overs, the pair of Abhishek Sharma and Kane Williamson scored just 11 runs. But after that both the players increased the run speed at once. The first blow to Hyderabad came in the form of Abhishek Sharma (42) on the score of 64. After this, Rahul Tripathi, who came to bat after scoring 17 runs in 11 balls, got injured and returned to the pavilion. After hitting the six, there was a strain in his hamstring.
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After this it seemed that Hyderabad would lose its momentum. Kane Williamson was dismissed after scoring 57 runs after a few overs. But after this Nicholas Pooran’s unbeaten innings of 34 runs in 18 balls gave the team victory.
