IPL 2018, SRH vs KXIP: 5 talking points

#1 Consistency of the SRH bowlers

Rashid Khan and his fellow SRH bowlers were simply magnificent

SRH were once again without their talisman Bhuvneshwar Kumar, and needed to defend a below-par total. To make things more difficult, they were also up against two of the most lethal openers of the tournament so far.

However, the SRH bowlers were up to the task as they calmly dismissed the KXIP openers before tearing their middle-order apart. Barring Mohammad Nabi, all the Hyderabad bowlers were nothing short of outstanding. Sandeep Sharma, Basil Thampi, Rashid Khan and Shakib al Hasan, all bagged wickets with Khan being the pick of them, bowling a spell of 3/19.

Siddarth Kaul went wicketless but he bowled a pretty economical spell of 0/25 from his four overs. They were able to defend two back-to-back below-par totals on good batting turfs.

Hence, one thing is for sure and that is, if the SRH batsmen do not deliver, their bowlers definitely will.