After losing the first game against Kolkata Knight Riders by 10 wickets, any team will get demoralised and that could affect you in the upcoming matches. Gujarat Lions are taking on defending champions Sunrisers Hyderabad. Going by the trend, SRH won the toss and elected to field. Jason Roy got off to a flier but he saw wickets falling at the other end. Brendon McCullum (5), Suresh Raina (5) and Aaron Finch (3) departed early, thanks to Rashid Khan.
Jason Roy followed suite and departed for 31, but that is when things seemed to be crumbling for Gujarat when Dinesh Karthik and Dwayne Smith came together with the score being 57 for 4. They played sensibly, rotating the strike and picking up the odd boundary. It was Dwayne Smith who looked to be the aggressor in the partnership. Finally, when it was time to accelerate after the 16th over, Dwayne Smith fell for 37. Soon, both the set batsman were out, Dinesh Karthik too departed trying to be too cheeky for 30. At a certain point of time it seemed they would go past 160 easily but set Sunrisers Hyderabad a target of 136.
It seemed Rashid Khan was was living a dream, he picked up 3 big wickets and finished by giving away 19 runs in 4 overs. He surely has a bright future ahead.
Gujarat Lions: Jason Roy, Brendon McCullum, Suresh Raina(c), Aaron Finch, Dinesh Karthik(w), Dwayne Smith, Praveen Kumar, Basil Thampi, Tejas Baroka, Dhawal Kulkarni, Shivil Koushik
Sunrisers Hyderabad: David Warner(c), Shikhar Dhawan, Moises Henriques, Yuvraj Singh, Deepak Hooda, Naman Ojha(wk), Ben Cutting, Bipul Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Rashid Khan, Ashish Nehra
