Sidelights:
Both the teams were desperate to win this match. SRH was probably the more desperate of the two as they had not registered a single point till now and that showed in their performance. We have mentioned it in one of our past sidelights that SRH’s TOP 3 are the best T20 players and they should fire and the result may be different. That’s exactly what happened in this match. With a near century partnership between the openers and then Warner playing the second fiddle to Finch SRH managed a big score of 184. Although they were helped by some poor fielding by DD as well. DD started well but not well enough and kept on loosing wickets at regular passages and in the end it was too much to ask for Duminy to complete the victory.
IPL 7 | Match 12 | SRH Vs DD
Venue: Dubai International Cricket Stadium, Dubai
Toss: SRH and elected to bat first
Playing XIs:
SRH: Shikhar Dhawan, Aaron Finch, David Warner, KL Rahul, Darren Sammy, Venugopal Rao, Karan Sharma, Naman Ojha, Dale Steyn, Amit Mishra, Bhuvaneshwar Kumar
DD: Quinton de Kock, Murali Vijay, Kevin Pietersen, Dinesh Karthik, Jean Paul Duminy, Manoj Tiwari, Laxmi Ratan Shukla, Wayne Parnell, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Shami, Jaydev Unadkat
Mini Score Card:
SRH 184/1 (20) Run rate: 9.20
Aaron Finch 88* (53) | Shahbaz Nadeem 1/24 (4)
David Warner 58* (45)
DD 180/4 (20) Run rate: 9.00
Murali Vijay 52 (40) | Dale Steyn 2/33 (4)
Quinton de Kock 48 (30) | Karan Sharma 1/23 (4)
Result: SRH won by 4 runs
Points: SRH 2 (Total 2) | DD 0 (Total 2)
Man of the match: Aaron Finch (SRH)
Umpires: Marais Erasmus | S Ravi | Billy Bowden (3rd) | K Srinivasan (Reserve)
Match Referee: Graeme Labrooy
How they played the game:
Powerplay: SRH 55 runs, 0 wickets | DD 44 runs, 0 wickets
First 50 runs: SRH 34 balls | DD 40 balls
50-100 runs: SRH 49 balls | DD 33 balls
100-150 runs: SRH 21 balls | DD 34 balls
Best Partnership
SRH: 2nd wicket – 128* runs off 82 balls between Finch 69* (37) and Warner 58* (45)
DD: 1st wicket – 99 runs off 68 balls between de Kock 48 (30) and Vijay 48 (38)
Fours and SIXES
SRH 16 Fours (8 by Finch, 5 by Dhawan and 3 by Warner) | 8 SIXES (4 by Finch, 3 by Warner and 1 by Dhawan)
DD 18 Fours (7 by Vijay, 6 by de Kock, 2 by Tiwari and 1 each by Pietersen, Karthik and Duminy) | 6 SIXES (2 by Duminy and 1 each by de Kock, Vijay, Pietersen and Tiwari)
In the PIC: Aaron Finch pulls
Picture Courtesy: ESPN – Cricinfo
