Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and invited Rising Pune Supergiant to take first strike. They kept looking wickets in regular intervals and nobody really stood fort and got going. For a brief period it seemed that Ben Stokes and Steven Smith were getting things back on track, but that was not to be as Rashid Khan dismissed Ben Stokes. Finally, RPS posted 148, which did not look good enough at all. Stokes was still the highest run-getter with 37 runs off 25 balls. Young Siddharth Kaul was the pick of their bowlers, he scalped 4 wickets for 29 runs of his 4 overs.
Sunrisers Hyderabad started the chase and looked in no worry till Shikhar Dhawan was out for 19 runs when the score was 25. Soon, Kane Williamson followed suite for 4 runs. But that did not affect their chase as Yuvraj Singh walked out to the middle and started picking singles and fours. It was David Warner who took the challenge by the scruff off the neck and scored an invaluable 40 before he fell prey to Ben Stokes. It was Ben Stokes who changed the complexion of the match by picking a couple of wickets in one over, Shikhar Dhawan and Kane Williamson. After the departure of Warner, in came his country-mate Moises Henriques. But he did not last long as Tahir knocked out Henriques to keep their hopes alive.
When they were on course, Yuvraj Singh departed for 47 off 43 balls. But it was Naman Ojha who kept them afloat with his fighting knock but when he departed it seemed that was the last nail in the coffin. Imran Tahir gave 24 runs of 4 overs and picked up one wicket. Stokes picked 3 wickets in his 4 overs and gave 30 runs. Finally SRH won the match by 12 runs, it also included an Unadkat hattrick in the last over.
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