DUBAI (UAE): Hyderabad returned to winning ways after they beat Rajasthan by eight wickets in Indian Premier League (IPL) at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium on Thursday.
Defending 154, RR were off to a fine start after Ben Stokes took a flying catch in the second slip to get David Warner out in the first over off Jofra Archer.
Brief Scores: Sunrisers Hyderabad 156/2 (Manish Pandey 83*, Vijay Shankar 52; Jofra Archer 2/21) beat Rajasthan Royals 154/6 (Sanju Samson 36, Ben Stokes 30; Jason Holder 3/33) by eight wickets
The right-arm pacer struck for the second time in the powerplay as he disturbed the timber to dismiss Jonny Bairstow in the third over.
Manish Pandey, though, came out all guns blazing. He creamed two fours in the fourth over bowled by Kartik Tyagi and followed it up with two sixes off Ben Stokes’ bowling in the fifth over.
Pandey went after Tyagi once again, hitting the young pacer for four and two sixes as SRH scored 18 in the final over of the powerplay to move closer to 60. He and Vijay Shankar completed a fifty-run partnership in the eighth over.
In the next over, Pandey cranked one more six and then brought up his fifty in 28 balls.
In the 11th over, Pandey and Vijay Shankar combined to hit three fours. A couple of overs later, the pair took SRH past hundred before completing the 100-run stand in the 15th over.
Vijay Shankar then took Archer in the 16th over, hitting three successive fours. In the next over, Manish creamed two sixes in the next two overs as SRH moved past 150 in the 18th over.
Vijay Shankar then closed out the game and, in that process, brought up his fifty, helping SRH seal an eight-wicket win with 11 balls to spare. While Vijay Shankar remained not out on 52, Manish hammered 83* off 47 balls, with the help of 4 fours and 8 sixes. The two put up an unbroken 140-run stand off 93 balls.
Earlier, RR retained the same playing XI while SRH made two changes to their line-up, bringing in Shahbaz Nadeem and Jason Holder in place of Basil Thampi and injured Kane Williamson. (Source: IPL20)
