The 49th match of the 19th season of the Indian Premier League was played between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Punjab Kings at the Rajiv Gandhi International Cricket Stadium in Hyderabad, in which the Hyderabad team won by 33 runs. In this match, Punjab Kings captain Shreyas Iyer won the toss and decided to bowl first. Batting first, Sunrisers Hyderabad scored a total of 235 runs at the loss of 4 wickets in the allotted 20 overs. For Hyderabad, the batting of Heinrich Klaasen and Ishan Kishan was excellent; While Klaasen played a brilliant inning of 69 runs, Ishan Kishan contributed 55 runs. In the bowling of Punjab Kings, Arshdeep Singh, Lockie Ferguson, Yuzvendra Chahal and Vijay Kumar Vaishakh took one wicket each.
Punjab Kings had a poor start while chasing the target in this match, and they lost two of their openers – Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh – with only 4 runs written on the scoreboard. Later, captain Shreyas Iyer was also out after scoring only 5 runs. After that, Cooper Connolly took over the innings from one end of the pitch and tried to maintain the run-scoring pace, but he did not get the expected support from the other end. Connolly played an unbeaten inning of 107 runs in 59 balls; However, he was unable to lead Punjab Kings to victory. In the end, Punjab Kings could only score 202 runs at the loss of 7 wickets in 20 overs. For Sunrisers Hyderabad, captain Pat Cummins and Shivang Kumar took two wickets each, while Nitish Kumar Reddy, Ishan Malinga and Shakib Hussain took one wicket each.
Here is the starting lineup (*Playing XI*) of both the teams for this match:
Sunrisers Hyderabad – Abhishek Sharma, Travis Head, Ishan Kishan (wk), Heinrich Klaasen, Salil Arora, Smaran Ravichandran, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Pat Cummins (c), Shivang Kumar, Ishan Malinga, Shakib Hussain. Punjab Kings – Prabhsimran Singh (wk), Cooper Connolly, Shreyas Iyer (captain), Shashank Singh, Suryansh Shedge, Marcus Stoinis, Marco Jensen, Lockie Ferguson, Vijaykumar Vaishakh, Arshdeep Singh, Yuzvendra Chahal.
Here is the list of impressive players for both the teams:
Sunrisers Hyderabad – Aniket Verma, Prafulla Hinz, Liam Livingstone, Harsh Dubey, Harshal Patel.
Punjab Kings – Priyansh Arya, Harpreet Brar, Xavier Bartlett, Vishnu Vinod, Musheer Khan.
