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Patna : Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH) thumped Delhi Capitals (DC) by 88 runs in the 47th match of IPL 2020 at Dubai International CRicket Stadium, Dubai, UAE, on October 27, 2020, late night, with captain David Warner (opener) scoring 66 in 34 balls hitting 8 fours and 2 sixes and his opening partner Wriddhiman Saha scoring 87 in 45 balls with 12 fours and 2 sixes while spinner Rashid Khan took 3/7 in 4 overs.Saha was named Player Off The Match.
Replying to SRH’s massive 219/2 in 20 overs, DC were all out for 131 in 19 overs. DC had won the toss and opted to bowl. It was SRH’s 5th win in 12 matches and they have now 10 points. For DC, it was their 5th defeat in 12 matches and they have 14 points.
Batting first, SRH openers Warner and Wriddhiman Saha added 107 runs for first wicket. Warner fell to Ravichandran Ashwin for 66 and it was 107/1. Saha fell to fast bowler Anrich Nortje for 87 and it was 170/2. Manish Pandey and Kane Williamson added 49 runs in their unbroken partnership for the 3rd wicket. Pandey remained unbeaten on 44 in 31 balls 4 fours and 1 six. Williamson remained unbeaten on 11 with 1 four. DC fast bowler Kagison Rabada was gtaken to the cleaner by SRH bastmen leaking away 54 runs in 4 overs without getting any wicket.
Chasing a target of 220 runs, DC lost their first two wickets with only 14 runs on board. Opener Shikhar Dhawan fell to fast bowler Sandeep Sharma for zero making it 1/1. Marcus Stoinis fell to spinner Shahbaz Nadeem for 5 and it was 14/2. Shimron Hetmyer was bowled by spinner Rashid Khand for 16 making it 54/3. Opener Ajinkya Rahane fell lbw to Rashid Khan for 26 in 19 balls with 3 fours and a six and it was 55/4. Rashid Khan took Hetmyer and Rahane’s wickets in his first over.
DC captain Shreyas Iyer fell to all-rounder Vijay Shankar for 7 and it was 78/5. Axar Patel fell to Rashid Khan for 1 making it 83/6. Rabada was bowled by T Natrajan for 3 making it 103/7. Rishabh pant (wk) also fell at the same score to Sandeep Sharma for 36 in 35 balls with 3 fours and a six and it was 103/8. Ravichandran Ashwin fell to Jason Holder for and it was 125/9. Anrich Nortje fell to Natrajan for 1. Tushar Deshpande remained unbeaten on 20 in 9 balls with 2 fours and a six.