{"id":63881,"date":"2018-05-06T15:23:01","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T10:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63881"},"modified":"2018-05-06T15:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T10:23:57","slug":"ipl-18-srh-defeat-dd-to-go-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=63881","title":{"rendered":"IPL’ 18: SRH defeat DD to go top"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hyderabad, May 6 (TNS):<\/strong>\u00a0Sunrisers Hyderabad\u00a0(SRH) defeated\u00a0Delhi Daredevils\u00a0(DD) by seven wickets to go to the top of the table at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Saturday.
\nChasing 164 to win, Sunrisers were off to a blazing start as England’s\u00a0Alex Hales\u00a0(45 off 31 balls) clobbered three fours and sixes each, courtesy a drop by Glenn Maxwell earlier in the innings.
\nHales smashed 27 runs off Daredevils pacer Avesh Khan, as the latter kept on bowling short to the English batsman.
\nAfter Hales departed for a well-made 45 by spinner\u00a0Amit Mishra, DD needed wickets to stall the momentum of SRH to have any chance of winning.
\nDespite the innings slowing down, Sunrisers’ kept the scoreboard ticking as batsmen Shikhar Dhawan (33) and skipper\u00a0Kane Williamson\u00a0(32) led the way, coupled with poor fielding and dropped catches.
\nIn the end,\u00a0Yusuf Pathan\u00a0(unbeaten 27) smashed two fours and sixes each, as the 2016 champions jumped back to the numero uno spot at the table, further enhancing their chances to earn a spot to the playoffs.
\nFor DD, Mishra was the pick of the bowlers as he took 2 for 19, while pacer Liam Plunkett took 1 for 27.
\nEarlier, Daredevils’ did not get the perfect start, as an out-of-form Glenn Maxwell (2) was brilliantly run out by pacer Sandeep Sharma.
\nIt was then young sensation\u00a0Prithvi Shaw\u00a0(65 off 36 balls) and skipper\u00a0Shreyas Iyer\u00a0(44) took charge. The former looked absolutely dangerous as he punished short balls for boundaries.
\nHe smashed three boundaries and a maximum off pacer Siddharth Kaul, as the latter’s over went for 20 runs.
\nHe looked in great touch and along with Iyer’s support, he clobbered his way to a well-crafted half-century for the second time in just 25 balls. DD were 95 for 1 after 10 overs.
\nJust as the Daredevils were looking set for an over-180 score, Shaw top-edged a delivery off Rashid Khan and thereby, stalled the momentum of their innings.
\nThe last ten overs yielded just 68 runs as the pitch slowed down and the batsmen struggling to make runs and not finding the boundary ropes.
\nIyer was soon dismissed and Rishabh Pant (18) failed to connect with the bat every time. He was ultimately adjudged leg before wicket by Khan after he failed to read his slower delivery.
\nVijay Shankar (unbeaten 23) then slammed 17 runs, including a four and a six to take DD to a par score of 163 in their 20 overs.
\nDaredevils’ banked on their bowlers to do the job and earn them an important win. But that was not to be. Sunrisers now have seven wins and two losses to have 14 points after nine matches.
\nOn the other hand, this was Daredevils’ seventh loss after ten matches. With just three wins in their kitty (six points), they are almost out of contention for the playoffs.
\nIn the first game earlier,\u00a0Chennai Super Kings\u00a0(CSK) climbed to the top of the points table with a comfortable six-wicket victory over\u00a0Royal Challengers Bangalore\u00a0(RCB) at the Maharashtra Cricket Association (MCA) Stadium in Pune on Saturday.
\nHaving elected to field on winning the toss, CSK restricted the visitors to 127 for 9 in their 20 overs. Parthiv Patel was the top scorer for his team, as he made 53 off 41 balls, which included five fours and two sixes.
\nIn reply, while Shane Watson (11) departed early, opener Ambati Rayudu laid the foundation of a successful foundation with a brilliant 32 off 25 balls.
\nCSK captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni (unbeaten 31) then hit spinner Yuzvendra Chahal for three consecutive sixes in the 18th over of the match to lead his team to a thumping victory.
\nSpinners Ravindra Jadeja (3 for 18) and Harbhajan Singh (2 for 22) shared five wickets between them as they spun a web around the visitors.
\nOn Sunday,\u00a0Mumbai Indians\u00a0(MI) will take on\u00a0Kolkata Knight Riders\u00a0(KKR) in Mumbai at 4 pm, while\u00a0Kings XI Punjab\u00a0(KXIP) will lock horns with\u00a0Rajasthan Royals\u00a0(RR) in Indore at 8 pm.<\/p>\n

Courtesy: (TNS\/ANI)<\/p>\n

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Hyderabad, May 6 (TNS):\u00a0Sunrisers Hyderabad\u00a0(SRH) defeated\u00a0Delhi Daredevils\u00a0(DD) by seven wickets to go to the top of the table at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium here on Saturday. Chasing 164 to win, Sunrisers were off to a blazing start as England’s\u00a0Alex Hales\u00a0(45 off 31 balls) clobbered three fours and sixes each, courtesy a drop by Glenn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63881"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63884,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63881\/revisions\/63884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/63882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}