Hyderabad, Mumbai win
Powered by the brilliant leg-breaks of Rashid Khan and captain David Warner's blistering 76, the Sunrisers Hyderabad cruised to a nine-wicket against the Gujarat Lions in their Indian Premier League match at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium in Hyderabad yesterday.
After electing to bowl, Rashid took three wickets for just 19 runs as his miserly returns restricted Gujarat to 135 for seven in their allotted overs. Rashid was even more influential than the figures show, getting rid of the visitors' major batsmen -- Brendan McCullum, Suresh Raina and Aaron Finch -- to put the writing on the wall early in the first innings.
Warner then stepped up after a dismal outing in the last match and powered his way to an unbeaten 76 off 45 balls, a knock punctuated by six fours and four sixes, as Hyderabad strolled home with 27 balls to spare.
He formed an unbroken 108-run partnership with Moises Henriques, who scored an unbeaten 52 of his own, after Shikhar Dhawan had fallen for nine early in the chase.
It was Hyderabad's second win in as many matches, while Gujarat suffered their second defeat in a row.
In the second match of the day between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Mumbai Indians at the Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai, a comedy of errors saw the visitors capitulate from a strong position to lose by four wickets.
Ankit Rajpoot came in to bowl the 19th over as Mumbai needed 30 runs with Hardik Pandya and Nitish Rana at the crease. Rana hit a four and a six off successive balls before Pandya added another six as Rajpoot conceded 19 in the over after conceding 18 in his previous three.
Needing 11 to win off the final over, Pandya ran a double off the first ball, before an abject misfield yielded four runs. A very good bouncer from Trent Boult saw a dot on the third, but more misfielding, a dropped chance this time off a skied ball, saw two more runs being run. And Pandya blasted a four to seal the win a ball to spare.
Earlier, Kolkata's Manish Pandey blazed his way to a 47-ball 81, smiting five fours and as many sixes, to take his side to 178 for 7 after they were sent in to bat.
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