| 1.3 : 1.3: H Singh to J Bairstow, OUT! Just the start Chennai wanted. Harbhajan strikes in his very first over and the crowd here in Chennai is going bonkers. Quicker and straighter outside off, Bairstow looks to cut but gets an outside edge to the keeper. Dhoni takes the catch and goes up in celebration. Bairstow does not wait and starts walking. Huge, huge blow for Hyderabad and the dangerous Bairstow walks out without troubling the scorers. |
| 1.4 : 1.4: H Singh to M Pandey, FOUR! What a way to get off the mark. Manish does not wait long and takes the charge to Harbhajan in the very first over. Flighted on off, Manish lofts it straight over the bowler's head for a boundary. |
| 2.4: D Chahar to D Warner, FOUR! First boundary for Warner! Shorter on middle and off, Warner pulls it over mid-wicket. The track might be slow but the outfield is not and the ball beats the chasing fielder to the ropes. |
| 3.1 : 3.1: H Singh to D Warner, SIX! Just over! Tossed up delivery on off from Harbhajan. Warner takes his front leg out of the way and smokes it over the bowler's head. The ball just about clears the rope. First six of the evening. |
| 3.6 : 3.6: H Singh to M Pandey, SIX! Manish Pandey looks on fire tonight. He has played just 5 balls so far but is looking very dangerous. Tossed up on off, Pandey takes the aerial route and smokes it over long off for a maximum. |
| 4.1 : 4.1: D Chahar to D Warner, FOUR! Nice shot from David Warner. Length delivery on middle, Warner punches it past the bowler through mid off for a boundary. |
| 4.3 : 4.3: D Chahar to M Pandey, FOUR! Unstoppable! Good length ball on off, Manish Pandey hits it like a venom straight towards the bowler. Deepak Chahar for a minute thinks to stop it but then ducks under it. Good decision from him as it was hit with some power. The ball goes to the fence for a boundary at long off. |
| 5.2 : 5.2: H Singh to M Pandey, FOUR! Deft touch! It was tossed up on middle, Pandey flicks it towards fine leg for a boundary. |
| 5.5 : 5.5: H Singh to M Pandey, FOUR! The partnership now moves to 49 and Manish Pandey is looking extremely comfortable out in the middle. Shorter outside off, Pandey gets on his back foot and cuts it through point for a boundary. |
| 6.1 : 6.1: R Jadeja to D Warner, FOUR! What a way to welcome Jadeja into the bowling attack. Jadeja gives it air and bowls it full on off, Warner clears his front leg and lofts it in the gap between mid-wicket and long on for a boundary. And with that, 50 partnership comes up between these two. A much-needed one for Hyderabad. They lost Bairstow early but these two have been brilliant and stabilized the innings well. |
| 8.5 : 8.5: R Jadeja to D Warner, SIX! The power of David Warner. No ground is too big for him. Nails this to perfection. Tossed up around off, it turns in, the Aussie opener gets low and slog sweeps it into the mid-wicket stands for half a dozen. |
| 9.4 : 9.4: I Tahir to M Pandey, SIX! Pandey is in fine touch this evening. Flighted delivery on middle and leg, the batsman gets on one knee and slog sweeps it over the mid-wicket fence for a maximum. |
| 10.1 : 10.1: D Bravo to M Pandey, FOUR! Perfect placement. Full on off, Pandey drives it stylishly through covers. The fielder in the deep runs to his right but cannot get close to the ball and the ball races away to the fence. |
| 10.5 : 10.5: D Bravo to M Pandey, FOUR! Great way to get to his 13th fifty of the League. He has looked absolutely stunning tonight and he has justified his selection in the team. The fine leg was inside the circle, Bravo bowls it short on the body, Pandey manages to hit his pull wide of the fielder to get to his fifty. |
| 12.1 : 12.1: R Jadeja to M Pandey, FOUR! First ball of his new spell and Manish Pandey straightaway gets on the charge. Tossed up on middle, Pandey comes down the track and hits it over the bowler's head. The ball just bounces before the rope. |
| 13.3 : 13.3: H Singh to D Warner, OUT! Warner is gone! Harbhajan comes back into the attack and gets rid of the dangerous Australian. This is huge. The crowd erupts. The bowler comes from around the wicket and provides a lot of flight to this. It lands on off and turns away with some extra bounce. Warner stays leg side, looks to go big downtown but misses and in the process, his back leg is dragged out. Seeing this, Dhoni, lightning as ever, whips the bails off in a flash. The 115-run stand comes to a |
| 14.2 : 14.2: I Tahir to V Shankar, SIX! That was six the moment it left the bat. Flighted ball on middle and leg, Shankar takes the aerial route. There is a man at long on but Shankar hits it so well that the man cannot do much but just watch it sail over the fence for a maximum. |
| 16.2: I Tahir to M Pandey, SIX! Short and punished. Imran Tahir bowls it way short and Pandey takes full toll of it and pulls it over mid-wicket for a maximum. |
| 17.4 : 17.4: D Bravo to V Shankar, FOUR! Excellent shot! Full outside off, Shankar gets on his back foot and hits it over covers for a boundary. |
| 18.5 : 18.5: D Chahar to V Shankar, FOUR! Shorter delivery on off, Shankar pulls it to square leg. Imran Tahir runs in from fine leg but cannot stop it. |
| 18.6 : 18.6: D Chahar to V Shankar, OUT! Finally Chahar gets the reward for bowling a great over here. Slower ball on middle, Vijay Shankar looks to go over mid-wicket but does not time it well and the ball goes straight to Jadeja in the deep. He takes a simple catch and Vijay Shankar's innings comes to an end. 7 runs and a wicket of the penultimate over. |
| 2.3 : 2.3: B Kumar to du Plessis, OUT! He's gone! The dive doesn't save him. Wow. They don't get any closer. Unnecessary, really. Du Plessis makes room, hammers this fuller length delivery to mid off and takes off. Hooda there collects, fires it and scores a direct hit at the bowler's end. It's taken upstairs and replays show that the South African is inches short. Touch and go stuff. Hyderabad have their early breakthrough here though. Hooda with some excellent work. |
| 2.5 : 2.5: B Kumar to S Raina, FOUR! Timing as sweet as a caramel custard. Superb. A little too full from Bhuvneshwar, on off, Raina presents the full face of the bat and times the drive past mid off to perfection. There's no stopping that. |
| 3.1 : 3.1: Al Hasan to S Watson, FOUR! Shot. Excellent placement on that. A little too full on the stumps, Watson gets low and brings out the broom. Sweeps it hard through square leg and finds the fence. |
| 4.4 : 4.4: K Ahmed to S Watson, SIX! Brute force. Watson is a big man and he has a lot of power in him. He gets this on a back of a length on middle, so he swings across the line and middles the heave over mid-wicket for a biggie. |
| 4.5 : 4.5: K Ahmed to S Watson, FOUR! Goes on the off side this time. A boundary results. Full and well outside off, Watson lofts it over covers cleanly. Shankar out in the deep covers good ground to his right, puts in a dive but can't stop the ball from crossing the rope. |
| 5.1 : 5.1: S Sharma to S Raina, FOUR! Raina welcome Sandeep in fine style. He anticipates the short ball, sticks on the back foot quickly and pulls it well over mid-wicket. Places it in the gap well and gets a boundary to his name. |
| 5.3 : 5.3: S Sharma to S Raina, FOUR! Second of the over. Sandeep bowls a little too straight, this allows Raina to just whip it wide of short fine leg and send it across the boundary line. |
| 5.4 : 5.4: S Sharma to S Raina, FOUR! The runs coming thick and fast now for Chennai. This boundary comes in a streaky manner, but it's all the same for them. Just behind a length, angling away from around off, Raina charges out and throws his bat at it, gets a thick edge which flies over short third man for a boundary. |
| 5.5 : 5.5: S Sharma to S Raina, FOUR! Another one. This is turning out to be a very expensive over. 16 runs already off the over with one ball remaining. On the fuller side, on middle and leg, Raina slogs and gets it off the inner half. Connects well enough to get it through backward square leg and away to the boundary line. |
| 5.6 : 5.6: S Sharma to S Raina, SIX! 22 off Sandeep Sharma's first over. Could this be the turning point of the game? The one which sets Chennai up? Superb end to the Powerplay from the home side. Short of a length in line of the stumps, Raina camps back and pulls it. Sends it flat aerially over backward square leg off the middle and the ball lands just on the rope. Chennai are 49/1 at the end of the first six, while Hyderabad were 54/1. |
| 6.5 : 6.5: Al Hasan to S Watson, SIX! That's gone a loooonnnnggg way! Poor ball and it's duly punished. Tossed up ball well outside leg, Watson gets low, adjusts in the crease and middles the slog sweep. The ball goes high and deep into the stands. Maximum! |
| 7.2 : 7.2: R Khan to S Watson, FOUR! Pummeled. That must have hurt Rashid a bit too. Extremely full on off stump, Watson hits it powerfully straight back on the bounce. The bowler sticks his right hand out, but it's hit too hard for him to stop. It goes behind for a boundary. |
| 7.4 : 7.4: R Khan to S Raina, FOUR! Somebody's going to have to stop the runs from leaking, otherwise this game will be over soon. Raina with a deft touch here. It's short and outside off, the southpaw backs away and opens the face before guiding it past the diving slip fielder for a boundary. |
| 9.6 : 9.6: R Khan to S Raina, OUT! STUMPED! Excellent glovework from Bairstow this time. And what a delivery from Rashid Khan too. He's been superb in this over so far, you could see the wicket was coming. The wrong 'un once again, on off, it spins away sharply and beats the outside edge of Raina's bat as he steps out to push it away. The Englishman behind collects the ball sharply and whips the bails off before the batsman can make his way back in. Beautiful stuff. Chennai need 96 runs to win off 60 |
| 11.1 : 11.1: S Sharma to S Watson, FOUR! Sandeep not having the best of outings tonight. Gets taken for another boundary. Back of a length outside off, Watson backs away, opens the bat face and runs it past short third man all the way to the fence. |
| 11.3 : 11.3: S Sharma to S Watson, FOUR! Boundary. 11 off the over so far, plenty remaining still. Watson taking the attack to Sandeep. The slower length ball, on middle, Watson leans ahead and pulls it hard through mid-wicket, bisecting the two fielders in the deep. Shankar tries to stop it with a dive but fails to do so. Superb placement. |
| 11.4 : 11.4: S Sharma to S Watson, SIX! What a way to bring up his 17th Indian T20 League fifty. He's been in patchy form the last few games, what a time to find it. A crucial game, this, for the Yellow Army. Bumper on middle, Watson pulls it off the meat over square leg for half a dozen. |
| 13.1 : 13.1: R Khan to A Rayudu, FOUR! The boundaries continue to flow. Short ball in line of the stumps, Rayudu picks up the length early and pulls it right in the gap through the mid-wicket region, beating the man in the deep. |
| 13.3 : 13.3: R Khan to S Watson, FOUR! Some flight on this, attacking the stumps, Watson gets down on his rear knee and sweeps it through square leg. Sandeep out in the deep covers good ground to his left, dives and stops it, but not well enough. The ball still touches the rope. |
| 13.4 : 13.4: R Khan to S Watson, SIX! There's no stopping Shane Watson tonight. He's back! This flighted ball is right in his arc, Watson murders this over the mid-wicket boundary for half a dozen. He's only dealing in boundaries here. |
| 14.4: B Kumar to S Watson, FOUR! That was just pure placement. Nothing wrong with the ball but Watson is just in the mood. A very low full toss on off, Watson places it past backward point for a boundary. The 50-run stand comes up between the two with that boundary. |
| 14.5 : 14.5: B Kumar to S Watson, FOUR! Not where he wanted to play it but he will take it with both hands. Good length ball outside off, Watson looks to cut it but it goes off the outside edge through the vacant third man region for a boundary. |
| 15.3 : 15.3: R Khan to S Watson, SIX! That one is out of here and into the orbit. Tossed up delivery on middle, Watson smokes it over the mid-wicket fence and into the crowd for a maximum. |
| 15.6 : 15.6: R Khan to S Watson, FOUR! Googly from Rashid but Watson is on top of him and all the bowlers tonight. It is on middle, Watson gets on one knee and sweeps it through backward square leg for a boundary. |
| 16.2 : 16.2: K Ahmed to S Watson, SIX! No length tonight is good enough to get the better of Watson. Good length delivery on off, Watson gets on his back foot and pulls it over the mid-wicket fence for another maximum. Moves into the 90's with it. He is on 95 now. |
| 17.1 : 17.1: B Kumar to S Watson, OUT! Watson misses out on his century. A brilliant catch from Bairstow is what it takes to get rid of the big Aussie. An excellent knock from him, he has single-handedly taken the game away from Hyderabad. Shorter ball from Bhuvneshwar, Watson goes for the pull but gets an outside edge on it. Bairstow dives to his left and takes an excellent catch. |
| 19.2 : 19.2: S Sharma to K Jadhav, SIX! Pandey tried his best. Unfortunate it went in vain. Jadhav jumped out of his crease to this slower length ball and lofted it over mid-wicket. The fielder in the deep ran to his right, crossed the rope with the momentum, but parried the ball inside. The umpires went upstairs to check if the save was clean but replays showed that Pandey had his foot touched on the ground before releasing the ball. |
| 19.4 : 19.4: S Sharma to A Rayudu, OUT! Some last-minute drama on the cards? Rayudu departs. Back of a length on middle and off, Ambati looks to pull but it goes off the top edge and lobs towards Shankar at mid off who takes a relatively simple catch. 1 run needed in 2 balls. |
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