The clash between Kings XI Punjab and Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) turned into another thriller dosage after the the game got stretched till the last over where Punjab needed 11 runs to win in the final over.
"My heart is still pounding".
Man of the match, Bhuvneshwar Kumar says that T20 is a format where you expect the unexpected. For Sunrisers Hyderabad, Bhuvneshwar Kumar took 5 wickets from 4 overs and conceded just 19 runs.
Speaking to the reporters during the post-match conference, Vohra explained on what went wrong, "I think we really did well with our ball". He added, "When I bowled the 16th or 17th over, I knew he was in good nick". I wanted to bat for around14-15 overs. On the bowling of Mohan Vohra, he was already planning and Yorker worked today.
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Sunrsiers skipper David Warner sounded relieved to have a bowler like Bhuvneshwar in his attack. Credit to Bhuvi, he was unbelievable. Manan Vohra who opened the innings at 84 for 6, fought a spectacular battle going all guns blazing at 50-ball 95 that comprised of 9 fours and 5 sixes. He had to dig in for his team.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar will rightly be celebrated for the cool head he demonstrated to seal the win in the 17th and 19th overs, including the prize wicket of Vohra, trapped in front by a peach of a yorker - the ball tracker animation showed the delivery to be landing at the base of middle stump, it does not get any more inch flawless than that - but by removing Amla and Maxwell in the first three overs of the innings, Bhuvneshwar had ensured firstly that SRH were in with a chance and that neither the steady hands of Amla nor the swashbuckling shots of Maxwell would have any say in the final result. It was definitely chase-able. But we would like to get back the winning momentum once we are back to our home ground.
Skipper Glenn Maxwell was the next man who came in at number 3 and after Amla's early dismissal, a captain's knock was expected from him. "To play an innings like that in a losing cause is criminal".
Kumar was the most successful bowler with five wickets, while Rashid snapped up two and Nabi, Moises Henriques and Siddarth Kaul claimed one wicket each. It was slower on one side but we could have managed to get more runs.
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