Sunrisers mess up routine chase as RCB document second win in a row

Did Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner miss a trick by not taking first strike after profitable the toss towards Royal Challengers Bangalore? Batting second in Chennai is more and more turning out to be a nightmare. On Tuesday, Kolkata Knight Riders imploded in dramatic circumstances. On Wednesday, it was SRH’s flip, fluffing what regarded like an easy chase to go down by six runs. In pursuit of 150, they had been 96/1 after 14 overs with Warner and Manish Pandey accountable for proceedings. However, Warner’s exit spooked them as RCB’s unheralded left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed picked up three wickets within the seventeenth over as RCB recorded their second successive win.
Shahbaz does a Rahul Chahar
Despite the lack of captain Warner for a well-compiled 37-ball 54, SRH had been forward within the contest after the sixteenth over, with the scoreboard studying 115/2. At the crease had been a well-set Manish Pandey and the irrepressible Jonny Bairstow. But batting second in Chennai just isn’t turning out to be simple. RCB captain Virat Kohli endured with left-arm spinner Shahbaz Ahmed. Could he conjure magic similar to Rahul Chahar and Krunal Pandya did for Mumbai?
Pressure does unusual issues to folks. Bairstow miscues a slog-sweep handy AB de Villiers a catch. On the following supply, Pandey holes out within the deep, as Ahmed will get two in two. Abdul Samad staves off the hat-trick, however three balls later provides a easy return catch to Ahmed. Three very important strikes within the seventeenth over put RCB within the ascendancy. There had been no heroics from all-rounders Vijay Shankar and Jason Holder as they capitulated within the 18th and nineteenth over respectively to depart SRH needing 20 from 9 balls. Rashid Khan, after his superlative efforts with the ball, tried his finest, biffing a six and a boundary off Harshal Patel. But it was simply an excessive amount of of a job for SRH’s decrease order. “A very big bitter pill to swallow. Obviously Maxi (Glenn Maxwell) batted well, but our bowlers did well to restrict them. Look, it was just about building a partnership… and I was quite disappointed with how we went — cross-batted shots against left-arm orthodox. It just hurts,” Warner mentioned after the second successive loss.

Yet one other sensational end at The Chepauk as #RCB beat #SRH by 6 runs.
Scorecard – https://t.co/apVryOzIWv #SRHvRCB #VIVOIPL pic.twitter.com/G3cVkk4GJr
— IndianPremierLeague (@IPL) April 14, 2021
Maxwell branches out
RCB would do properly to thank Maxwell, their big-ticket signing for this season. The Aussie could have endured a torrid time final yr with Kings XI Punjab however within the two video games for his new franchise, he appears to have discovered his verve. Maxwell has a particular function within the center order which appears to have liberated him to a level. This was the rationale he managed to play the best way he did. Walking in at 47/2 after 6.1 overs, the 32-year-old struggled to return to phrases with the Chennai observe and the craft of Rashid Khan. After a sedate begin by which he accrued 9 off 16 balls, he tore into Shahbaz Nadeem within the eleventh over, slamming the left-arm spinner for a brace of sixes and a boundary. This was adopted by one other interval of lull within the center overs after which he collected 39 runs from the ultimate three overs. His invaluable 41-ball 59 was his first half-century within the Indian Premier League (IPL) in 5 seasons. Maxwell’s flourish propelled RCB to 149/8, which proved to be a match-winning essay. Without him, they had been useless and buried. The fantastic thing about this knock was the style by which he paced the innings and his considered shot choice.