Hetmyer And Gurkeerat Give RCB Reason To Smile
The Hindu|May 05, 2019

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s hopes of making the playoffs depend on results elsewhere

N. Sudarshan
Hetmyer And Gurkeerat Give RCB Reason To Smile

Sunrisers Hyderabad’s passage to the IPL playoffs will now hinge on results elsewhere as it lost to Royal Challengers Bangalore by four wickets in its final league match at the M. Chinnaswamy Stadium here on Saturday.

After setting a target of 176, SRH seemed primed to defend it, reducing RCB to 20 for three with Parthiv Patel, Virat Kohli and A.B. de Villiers back in the pavilion.

But Shimron Hetmyer (75, 47b, 4x4, 6x6), playing only his fifth game of the season, and Gurkeerat Mann (65, 48, 8x4, 1x6), stitched together a 144-run fourth-wicket stand — a rarity for RCB as it involved neither Kohli nor de Villiers — to guide their team home.

It did help that Yusuf Pathan dropped a sitter off Bhuvneshwar Kumar at point when Hetmyer was on 60 with another 62 required. But for that, the West Indian’s batting was clutter-free, as he finally delivered on his immense potential.

Each of his six sixes came on the leg-side and he was particularly severe on spinner Rashid Khan.

Gurkeerat, on the other hand, played the perfect second fiddle, displaying a fine array of shots in the latter part of his innings.

When the two were dismissed within three runs of each other, there were a few jitters, before Umesh Yadav, with six needed off six, smacked the first two balls of the final over to the fence.

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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة May 05, 2019 من The Hindu.

ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.

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