Daredevils beat Sunrisers by 6 wickets in IPL

Speaking about his spectacular batting on Sunday, Warner said it was always pleasing to score runs. His ability with the new ball was well solicited even at the beginning of the season, but it has been his ability to nail the yorkers at the death that has got the world talking about him and has compelled the SRH coach Tom Moody to hail him as one of the world’s finest. On Tuesday at the Kotla, they will need to take that difficult first step on the long and hard road upwards in the league standings, but it will be no easy task against defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad.

Here’s a look at the turning points of the match.

Jayant Yadav, included in place of Shahbaz Nadeem, also did a great job by conceding only 26 runs in his four overs. David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan played all over the park, and aided by some sloppy Delhi fielding, crossed fifty in five overs. That trend could, however, change in this game, considering he has conceded at only 6.72 runs per over against David Warner and has dismissed him once in the four innings he has bowled at him.

Kane Williamson (40 off 25) later ensured that Hyderabad crossed the 200-run mark with smart strokeplay. He used all the chances and got a hundred.

Brett Lee praised Yuvraj Singh. He tried. The coordination that is required, may be that did not work and that is why the catch was dropped. Yuvraj went on to smash an undefeated 70 off 41 balls, as Sunrisers ransacked 59 runs in the last four overs. But Yuvraj along with Moises Henriques took the score past 180. He made many centuries in the ODIs and Tests also.

But seamer Bhuvneshwar Kumar cut short Pandey’s stay when the batsman gave a return catch to the bowler, with Kolkata at 90/3 in 11 overs. Delhi finished the Powerplay on 62/1, nearly on par with Sunrisers. Zaheer Khan continues to nurse his injured hamstring, and in his absence the burden of captaincy will lie on the young shoulders of Karun Nair. However, he couldn’t capitalize on the start as he fell in the eight over to a clever knuckleball from Siddarth Kaul that found the fielder. Pant was then the next to go, falling to a peach from Siraj.

With not many games left before the play-offs begin, Delhi Daredevils must pull their act together and everyone needs to chip in. The required rate kept mounting and Siraj was called back to bowl the 13th over.

Anderson had been scoring steadily but exploded into life in the final few overs, launching three sixes into the stands with Chris Morris (15no from 7 balls) adding another maximum, before finishing the job with a four down the ground. On Sunday, though, Warner hammered Kuldeep for 30 runs off 12 balls. I played that role in the last game and he played a good innings here. With every top order batsman chipping in with runs for Delhi, Corey Anderson was the highest scorer at 41 not out in 24 balls.