IPL 2020
IPL 2020: Match 3 (SRH vs RCB)- Yuzvendra Chahal Ensured A Stunning Win
By CricShots - Sep 22, 2020 12:16 am
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Sunrirsers Hyderabad (SRH) was locking horns with Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in teh third match of the ongoing Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 and the latter came out as winners. Yuzvendra Chahal was the wrecker-in-chief for the RCB as he scalped three crucial wickets of Manis Pandey, Jonny Bairstow, and Vijay Shankar and gave away just 18 runs. The Bangalore based franchise won teh match by 10 runs.Β 

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Devdutt Paddikaal scored a fifty in debut

This was Warner’s first game as SRH skipper after his re-appointement. The game started on a good note for him as he won the toss and asked RCB to bat first. In reply, RCB managed to score as many as 163 for 5 in the allotted 20 overs with debutant Devdutt Padikkal and veteran AB de Villiers scoring fifties.

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Padikkal and Aaron Finch added as many as 90 runs in the first 90 overs before departing in quick succession. Captain Virat Kohli did not last long either as RCB found themselves in trouble. However, De Villiers made sure that teh team reaches a respectable total and slammed 51 off just 30 deliveries to ensure RCB end up with a challenging total. For SRH, T Natarajan, Vijay Shankar, and Abhishek Sharma picked one wicket apiece.

Yuzvendra Chahal
Yuzvendra Chahal took three crucial wickets

In reply, SRH was on a verge of having a good start as Jonny Bairstow and David Warner collected 18 runs from the first nine balls before the latter was run-out. Umesh Yadav, bowling the second over, pitched one up that was hit straight by Bairstow. But before the ball could go past Yadav, he managed to get his hand on it.

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After Warner’s dismissal, Manish Pandey and Bairstow added 71 runs for the second wicket before Pandey getting out in the 12th over. Pandey’s dismissal almost triggered a collapse for SRH was for a score of 120/2 in 15 overs they went down to 142/8 in 18 overs. Eventually, they got bundled out for 153 in the final over of the match. Chahal won the man of the match award for his brilliant spell.

Match Summary:

Royal Challengers Bangalore – 163/5 in 20 overs (D Padikkal: 56, AB de Villiers: 51; A Sharma: 2/16) defeated Sunrisers Hyderabad –Β 153 allout in 19.4 overs (J Bairstow: 61; Y Chahal: 3/18, S Dube: 2/15) by 10 runs

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