Sunrisers Hyderabad and Royal Challengers Bangalore are facing each other in the 52nd match of the Indian Premier League 2021 in Abu Dhabi. RCB are eyeing to win the game and finish in the top-two in the points table.
Virat Kohli won the toss and opted to bowl first, keeping the last game between Chennai Super Kings and Rajasthan Royals at the venue. Both teams fielded an unchanged playing XI.
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Abhishek Sharma was sent in to open with Jason Roy. He played few boundary strokes but his innings lasted only 10 balls as he scored 13 runs before George Garton dismissed him. Kane Williamson looked in fine touch when he came out to bat. SRH scored 50 runs inside the powerplay at the cost of one wicket.
Williamson and Roy added 70 runs for the second wicket before the former got out. Priyam Garg and Roy got out in the same over of Daniel Christian. Talented youngster Abdul Samad was in the middle and had the onus to help his team to a good total.
Yuzvendra Chahal came to bowl the 16th over. He struck Samad on pads on the first ball of the over. RCB players went up in appeal but the umpire remained unmoved. Virat Kohli decided to go for the referral with two seconds remaining on the countdown.
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The replays showed three reds and Chahal removed Samad just for 1 run.
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Riding on Roy and Williamson’s innings, SRH scored 141/7 in 20 overs. They struggled at the death and managed only 36 runs in the last six overs while losing five wickets.
Sunrisers Hyderabad (Playing XI): Jason Roy, Wriddhiman Saha(w), Kane Williamson(c), Priyam Garg, Abhishek Sharma, Abdul Samad, Jason Holder, Rashid Khan, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Siddarth Kaul, Umran Malik.
Royal Challengers Bangalore (Playing XI): Virat Kohli(c), Devdutt Padikkal, Srikar Bharat(w), Glenn Maxwell, AB de Villiers, Daniel Christian, Shahbaz Ahmed, George Garton, Harshal Patel, Mohammed Siraj, Yuzvendra Chahal.
