IPL 2016: Warner powers SRH win

IPL 2016: Warner powers SRH to maiden win

Highlights

1. David Warner led the run-chase with a 59-ball 90-run knock
2. Earlier, Ambati Rayudu hit his 12th fifty for Mumbai Indians in his 100th IPL match
3. With this win SRH opened their account and moved to sixth in points tally, while MI moved down to seventh

David Warner was not at his assertive best in Match 12 of the 2016 Indian Premier League against Mumbai Indians, but the Sunrisers Hyderabad skipper did more than enough with the bat to hand his team their first win of the tournament with a brilliant unbeaten 59-ball 90-run knock at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium, Uppal, Hyderabad on Monday.

After a disciplined bowling attack from SRH restricted MI to 142 for six, Warner carried the team on his shoulders on a wicket where stroke-making did not come easy and took his team home with seven wickets in hand and 15 balls to spare. The win opened SRH's account in IPL after three matches, while MI crashed to their third defeat in four games despite Ambati Rayudu scoring a fifty in his 100th IPL game and Tim Southee claiming three wickets. Barring Southee, none of the MI bowlers posed any kind of threat to the SRH batting line-up, especially to Warner, and it was a case of overcoming the slow nature of the Uppal track than the MI bowlers for the home team.

In defense of 142, Southee provided MI with the perfect start when the New Zealander cleaned up Shikhar Dhawan with a brutal yorker in the first over of SRH's innings. Dhawan departed for two extending his poor run with the bat since ICC World T20 this year, but Warner did not allow MI to take charge of the proceedings, hitting Mitchell McLeanghan for a six and a four in the very next over. Southee though bowled well while McLenaghan and Jasprit Bumrah ensured that Warner was kept under check in the early going.

One down Moises Henriques started slowly and at the halfway stage, SRH managed only 66 runs with Warner scoring the bulk of the runs. Henriques perished in the 11th over, when a returning Southee got a fuller delivery to just move away after pitching, forcing Henriques to nick it to wicketkeeper Parthiv Patel.

In walked Eoin Morgan and his primary objective was to get Warner on strike and he did what was needed. Warner proceeded to his 25th IPL fifty off 42 balls and despite losing Morgan for 11 to Southee, the Australian upped the ante and scored his next 40 runs in just 17 balls. Deepak Hooda helped himself to a couple of fours and eased some pressure of his skipper and Warner then finished the game in style hitting McLeanghan for two sixes in the 18th over to hand his team two points.

Earlier, after being put in to bat MI's newest recruit Martin Guptill (2) failed to set the stage on fire on his IPL debut falling to Bhuvneshwar Kumar in the first over of the match. But Ambati Rayudu's 49-ball 54-run knock and Krunal Pandya's quickfire 49* off 28 balls ensured that MI finished with a respectable total on the board.