SRH vs RCB, IPL 2018: Kane Williamson's men beat Virat Kohli's orange army by 5 runs; read the complete scoreboard
The 39th match of the Indian Premier League between Virat Kohli led Royal Challengers Bangalore and Williamson led Sunrisers Hyderabad was a neck to neck fight. Hyderabad came to bat first and set an average target of 147 against Bangalore. Bangalore gave its best being on the edge of the play-off but lost the match for just 5 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad's skipper Kane Williamson won the man of the match title.
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"We were aiming for 150, so knew we were in the game. I feel we could have been a bit more clinical, but it was nice to come away with the win. That was a world class over from Bhuvi. He and Kaul have done it for a very long period of time. We're trying to adapt to the surfaces as best as we can. It was definitely hard work initially with the bat. It was a tough surface to get momentum. Key partnerships got us a competitive total. It wasn't our best fielding performance, but that's cricket. The guys held their nerves at key moments. It's about improving as a unit. Still, plenty to work with," Williamson said after winning the match
Hyderabad was the worst on the batting as most of the batsmen walked out after hardly making runs. Kane Williamson chased his fantastic fifty-six and Shakib Al Hasan made 35 runs. RCB's Tim Southee and Mohammed Siraj took 3 wickets of SRH.
Bangalore's skipper Virat Kohli played well from the team and scored 39 runs while no other batsmen stood long Colin de Grandhomme who scored 33 runs. SRH's Shakib Al Hasan took 2 wickets of RCB's while other bowlers took 1 wickets each. The RCB's lost the match by 5 runs, losing 2 wickets in the last two bowls of last over. Well, the match was completely dependent on bowlers of both the team.
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That's how this game goes. Not good enough. We deserve to lose this game. We didn't show application. de Grandhomme and Mandeep showed that if you put a partnership together, a win was possible. I thought this was a tough wicket. We couldn't capitalise on the start the bowlers gave us. If you have strong characters on this team, you're always going to do well. Sunrisers are a good team and they understand their strength. Bowling wise, they are the number one team," said Kohli after losing the match in last over.
Here's complete scoreboard of the match 39, SRH vs RCB:
| Batsmen | Runs | Balls | SR | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Hales | b Tim Southee | 5 | 5 | 100.00 | 1 | 0 | |
| Shikhar Dhawan | c Tim Southee b Mohammed Siraj | 13 | 19 | 68.42 | 1 | 0 | |
| Kane Williamson | c Mandeep Singh b Umesh Yadav | 56 | 39 | 143.58 | 5 | 2 | |
| Manish Pandey | c Virat Kohli b Yuzvendra Chahal | 5 | 7 | 71.42 | 0 | 0 | |
| Shakib Al Hasan | c Umesh Yadav b Tim Southee | 35 | 32 | 109.37 | 5 | 0 | |
| Yusuf Pathan | b Mohammed Siraj | 12 | 7 | 171.42 | 2 | 0 | |
| Wriddhiman Saha | b Mohammed Siraj | 8 | 5 | 160.00 | 0 | 1 | |
| Rashid Khan | run out (Virat Kohli) | 1 | 3 | 33.33 | 0 | 0 | |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | NOT OUT | 1 | 2 | 50.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Siddarth Kaul | run out (Virat Kohli) | 1 | 1 | 100.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Sandeep Sharma | lbw Tim Southee | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Extras | (nb 1, w 5, b 0, lb 3, pen 0) | 9 | |||||
| Total | (All out; 20 overs) | 146 | |||||
| Bowler | O | R | W | Econ | Dots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moeen Ali | 3 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 | 6 | |
| Umesh Yadav | 4 | 36 | 1 | 9.00 | 8 | |
| Tim Southee | 4 | 30 | 3 | 7.50 | 8 | |
| Mohammed Siraj | 4 | 25 | 3 | 6.25 | 12 | |
| Yuzvendra Chahal | 4 | 25 | 1 | 6.25 | 9 | |
| Colin de Grandhomme | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8.00 | 2 | |
| Batsmen | Runs | Balls | SR | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manan Vohra | b Sandeep Sharma | 8 | 10 | 80.00 | 0 | 0 | |
| Parthiv Patel | lbw Shakib Al Hasan | 20 | 13 | 153.84 | 4 | 0 | |
| Virat Kohli | c Yusuf Pathan b Shakib Al Hasan | 39 | 30 | 130.00 | 5 | 1 | |
| AB de Villiers | b Rashid Khan | 5 | 8 | 62.50 | 0 | 0 | |
| Moeen Ali | c Wriddhiman Saha b Siddarth Kaul | 10 | 7 | 142.85 | 2 | 0 | |
| Mandeep Singh | NOT OUT | 21 | 23 | 91.30 | 1 | 0 | |
| Colin de Grandhomme | b Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 33 | 29 | 113.79 | 1 | 2 | |
| Extras | (nb 0, w 3, b 0, lb 2, pen 0) | 5 | |||||
| Total | (6 wickets; 20 overs) | 141 | |||||
Did not bat:
| Bowler | O | R | W | Econ | Dots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandeep Sharma | 4 | 20 | 1 | 5.00 | 10 | |
| Bhuvneshwar Kumar | 4 | 27 | 1 | 6.75 | 10 | |
| Shakib Al Hasan | 4 | 36 | 2 | 9.00 | 7 | |
| Siddarth Kaul | 4 | 25 | 1 | 6.25 | 6 | |
| Rashid Khan | 4 | 31 | 1 | 7.75 | 12 | |
