Nicholas Pooran’s 18 balls 34 and Adien Markram’s 8 balls 12 ensured that SRH reaches the target of 162 comfortably.
After winning the toss, SRH’s captain Kane Williamson opted to bowl first and that turned out to be a wise decision as the SRH bowlers restricted the Gujarat Titans to 162 runs. Hardik Pandya was the highest scorer for Gujarat Titans as he scored a half-century whereas Bhuvneshwar Kumar and T Natarajan bagged 2 wickets for their team.
Looking at the bowling lineup of Gujarat Titans, It seemed at one stage that the match will go down the wire but Sunrisers Hyderabad was up with the required run rate from the start and didn’t lose any of their wickets in the powerplay overs of their innings.
