Sunrisers Hyderabad continued their excellent run of form as they won their third match on the trot to go third in the Indian Premier League standings. Sunrisers dominated with both bat and ball as they subjected the Kings XI Punjab to yet another loss and kept the Punjab outfit rooted to the bottom of the table.
Being put into bat, Punjab never quite got going as they lost wickets at regular intervals. Shaun Marsh was the top-scorer once again for the visitors as he scored a valuable 40. However, it was Axar Patel who helped Punjab post a total of some respectability with an unbeaten 36 off 17 balls. Mustafizur Rahman bowled a brilliant spell to help restrict Punjab to 143.
In reply, David Warner and Shikhar Dhawan continued where they left off in the previous game and put on a 90-run partnership to give the perfect start to the chase. Although the Sunrisers lost a few wickets, they held onto clinch their third win in a row and keep their playoff goals alive.
Here are the major stats from the game:
1 – David Miller was dismissed for the first time in Hyderabad in four IPL innings. He had scored 141 runs and remained unbeaten in the previous three innings.
2.25 – Mustafizur Rahman's economy rate against Kings XI Punjab. He conceded just 9 runs in his 4 overs. This is the joint-best economy rate, along with John Hastings, in this IPL so far.
3 – This is the third time that both Glenn Maxwell and David Miller have been dismissed in the same over in the IPL this season.
7 – Mustafizur Rahman bowled the seventh maiden of the IPL. He also bowled the first maiden for Sunrisers Hyderabad.
8 – David Warner has scored an IPL fifty in less than 25 balls for the eighth time. This is the most for any batsman, with Virender Sehwag and AB de Villiers having done it 6 times each.
17 – Mustifizur Rahman bowler 17 dot balls in his four-over spell. This is the joint-highest in this IPL season, along with Rajat Bhatia and Zaheer Khan.
20 – Mustafizur Rahman's spell was the twentieth time that a bowler has conceded less than 10 runs in a four-over spell.
20.50 – This is the average runs scored per wicket for the top four of the Kings XI Punjab batting line-up in the IPL so far. This is the lowest for any team.
23 – David Warner scored the third fastest fifty in this IPL in 23 balls. Warner also holds the record for the fastest fifty in this IPL.
29 – David Warner scored his 29th 50-plus score in the IPL. This is the highest for any batsman.
36* – The number of runs scored by Axar Patel. This is more than the number of runs he has scored in the three innings he has batted for India in T20Is.
54.95 – Shikhar Dhawan and David Warner now have the highest batting average for any batting pair who have batted more than 15 times in the IPL.
211.76 – Axar Patel's strike rate in the Punjab batting innings was the highest for any Kings XI Punjab player who has faced at least 15 balls in this IPL so far.
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