IPL 2020: Twitter reacts as SRH steamroll RR to move to 5th on the points table

The Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) coasted to a comfortable 8-wicket win over the Rajasthan Royals (RR) in Match 40 of the 13th edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL 2020).

After being put in to bat by David Warner, RR got off to a decent start before Robin Uthappa's enterprising cameo was cut short by an amateurish run out. Ben Stokes struggled to get going, but he and Sanju Samson stitched a meaningful partnership for the 3rd wicket even as they tried unsuccessfully to up the run rate.

Both Samson and Stokes were dismissed in the space of two balls, with their stumps rattled by Vijay Shankar and Rashid Khan respectively. Jos Buttler scored only 9 runs in his 12 balls at the crease, and RR needed quick runs from Riyan Parag and Jofra Archer to get to a defendable total.

Still, with only 154/6 on the board, Steve Smith's men had their task cut out for them. Jofra Archer gave them yet another brilliant start as he got rid of both David Warner and Jonny Bairstow within the first three overs, leaving SRH in a spot of bother.

But a combination of poor bowling from Kartik Tyagi and some brave strokeplay from Manish Pandey ensured that SRH were never behind the 8-ball during their chase. Vijay Shankar ably supported Pandey, as he started off circumspectly but then put away the loose balls to register his first fifty of IPL 2020.

SRH got over the line comfortably in the end, with 11 balls and 8 wickets to spare. Pandey finished on an unbeaten 47-ball 83, while Shankar hit the winning runs to end his innings on 52 off 51 balls.

With the win, SRH moved into 5th place on the IPL 2020 points table. The Orange Army are level on points with RR and KXIP, but have a better net run rate than both teams.

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Twitter reacts to IPL 2020, SRH vs RR

Cancel the biryani order our friends can't handle the level of spice 🙂P.S. : Daal baati should just do fine.#RRvSRH #KeepRising #OrangeArmy #Dream11IPL https://t.co/CLvZ1VhJkN

— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) October 22, 2020

Congratulations @SunRisers for your commanding & comfortable victory. Great to see the unbeaten 140 runs partnership between two talented Indian batsmen @im_manishpandey 83* & @vijayshankar260 52*. @IPL #SRHvsRR #IPL2020

— Vinay Kumar R (@Vinay_Kumar_R) October 22, 2020

The all-round performance of Vijay Shankar is the biggest plus. He had to be batting no 4 as an India player @SunRisers

— Harsha Bhogle (@bhogleharsha) October 22, 2020

Jofra Archer - Best bowler of this season and Vijay Shankar has smashed three consecutive fours.

— Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) October 22, 2020

The amount of energy and motion Vijay Shankar puts into every shot played for one run would have fetched Alastair Cook 81* in this game. #RRvsSRH

— Jamie Alter (@alter_jamie) October 22, 2020

Manish Pandey and Vijay Shankar are the first Indian pair to share a century partnership in the IPL for Sunrisers Hyderabad.Parthiv Patel-Shikhar Dhawan's 89-run opening stand vs KKR in 2013 was the previous highest IPL partnership for SRH by an Indian pair. #RRvSRH #IPL2020

— Sampath Bandarupalli (@SampathStats) October 22, 2020

Vijay Shankar going after Jofra Archer.Somewhere MSK Prasad is saying.... pic.twitter.com/bSqgxz6DiS

— Nikhil 🏏 (@CricCrazyNIKS) October 22, 2020

Shankar had saved these fours against Archer for World Cup final, but neither India qualified, nor he survived Bumrah. #IPL

— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) October 22, 2020

This stand between Manish Pandey & Vijay Shankar is the 24th 100+ partnership for #SRH in all #IPL since their entry in 2013.This is the first time two Indians are involved in a 100+ stand for SRH.The previous 23 always involved a foreign player!#IPL2020#Dream11IPL#IPLinUAE

— Mohandas Menon (@mohanstatsman) October 22, 2020

Not hungry tonight. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/aful628Icm

— Rajasthan Royals (@rajasthanroyals) October 22, 2020